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Australian Ethical aligns Christian Super members' cover

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 OCT 2025
... voluntary unitised death and TPD cover, this will become fixed cover. Australian Ethical added that all members with income protection cover will retain their cover, however it will become fixed on 1 December 2025, and the cost of cover may increase ...

Australian Food Super to transition to age-based premiums

MATTHEW WAI  |  TUESDAY, 7 OCT 2025
... manual workers or office workers. For manual workers of all ages, the annual premium to date for life, TPD and income protection cover, was $530.40. From November 1, members between the ages of 33 and 45 will only pay $455. However, members over 46 years ...

Brighter Super to add 68k new members

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 SEP 2025
... to continue to access risk only insurance benefits through superannuation, including death, disablement, and income protection." "Brighter Super has a strong track record in supporting insurance-only super structures and brings deep expertise to this ...

Equip Super rejigs insurance fees, policy terms

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 SEP 2025
... may have. For Equip Super accumulation members and excluding Toyota plan members, premiums will decrease for income protection cover by 2.8%. Toyota employer plan members will have their premiums reduce for TPD and income protection, while automatic ...

Cbus closes corporate super plan

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 JUL 2025
... confirmed that the change will mean members should receive "at least the same amount of cover". "If you have Income Protection cover within Cbus Corporate Super, the cover provided within Cbus Industry Super will have the same benefit and waiting period ...

ART inks mandate with Zurich

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 14 JUL 2025
... it extended its partnership with AIA to 2020 and continue to provide death, total permanent disablement and income protection insurance to Sunsuper members beyond the original July 2016 deadline. ART recently made an array of changes to several corporate ...

Hostplus extends MetLife partnership

MATTHEW WAI  |  MONDAY, 14 JUL 2025
... Hostplus currently provides more than 865,000 members with Death, Total and Permanent Disablement (TPD), and Income Protection insurance through the partnership. Group insurance is available to all eligible Hostplus members. Hostplus chief executive ...

Mental illness payouts balloon over $2.2bn: CALI

MATTHEW WAI  |  FRIDAY, 11 JUL 2025
... claims nearly doubles the amount recorded five years ago. Further, mental ill health is also driving one in five income protection claims, with payouts totalling $887 million in 2024, CALI said. CALI noted the trend is especially significant among younger ...

AMP hit with multiple court filings

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 3 JUL 2025
... AMP's superannuation funds for life insurance (death only cover, total and permanent disablement cover and income protection cover) during the period 2019 to 2024," AMP said. AMP confirmed it intends to defend the proceedings. Separately, a further ...

ClearView welcomes underwriting head

MATTHEW WAI  |  MONDAY, 30 JUN 2025
... or no mandatory medical requirements. There's also a new structured tiering system for Life, TPD, Trauma, Income Protection, and Business Expenses cover based on age and benefit amount, which ClearView said would prove more efficient for advisers. ...