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Climate change to cost $50bn

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 24 SEP 2007
Insurance premiums are set to rise after a new report predicted that insurance company losses could reach as much as $50 billion per year between 2010 and 2019, driven by a rise in natural disasters caused by climate change. The Hedging Climate Change ...

Economic round up: Inflation climbing, can rates hold?

SUZY MAC  |  MONDAY, 16 JUL 2007
... temporary reprieve, there are a range of other factors such as escalating prices for fuel, rents, food and health insurance premiums, which are likely to push inflation higher from late 2007.

ING rated best group risk provider

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  THURSDAY, 5 JUL 2007
... master trust providers and corporates, who collectively account for more than $700 million in annual group insurance premiums. Ranking the country's top 10 life insurers, ING Group Risk placed in the top quartile for key measures including product quality ...

Member TFNs now law but problems persist

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 2 JUL 2007
... no-TFN tax and the insurance premium, the policy will lapse. As we cannot accept member contributions, the insurance premiums cannot continue to be paid and the member's policy will lapse." Even though Ginsburg said members in this particular case have ...

CalPERS pre-empts healthcare funding crisis

... current system where - while retirement savings are pre-funded - most companies pay their staff's retiree health insurance premiums as an annual lump sum, or on a "pay as you go basis". The risk is that this 'unfunded liability' is unpredictable and ...

Home equity needs to be part of retirement strategy

HAMISH MADDEN  |  TUESDAY, 26 SEP 2006
... equity can offer insurance against outliving super, bridge the retirement savings gap and be used to fund health insurance premiums into advanced age. Managing director, Chris Martin, said the paper was issued to get government and business thinking ...

Scale fails to buy cheaper premiums

KATE HAGE  |  THURSDAY, 7 SEP 2006
... claims and under writing management, but ultimately the fund's past claims experience is the key driver of insurance premiums," said Burke.

Costs of multiple super too hard to address: max Super

HAMISH MADDEN  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 AUG 2006
... modelling carried out by max Super, a 30 year old who had four super funds could save $540 per annum in fees and insurance premiums by consolidating their accounts. This could add up to an extra $60,000 in retirement. "The task of sorting out your super ...

ASIC serves up life to insurance rep

HAMISH MADDEN  |  THURSDAY, 22 JUN 2006
... offering financial services after repeated and deliberate dishonest behaviour, including spending client's insurance premiums on himself. Terence Howell, from Victoria, has received a permanent ban after an Australian Securities and Investments Commission ...

Netwealth upgrades with even more flexibility

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 MAY 2006
... provision for hedge fund investments, listed warrants, allocated and transitional pensions and more flexible insurance premiums. Netwealth's latest PDS announces a range of initiatives that include increasing allowable allocations to hedge funds from ...