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Insurers' approaches reinforcing mental health stigma: Life CCC

MATTHEW WAI  |  TUESDAY, 16 SEP 2025
The Life Insurance Code Compliance Committee (Life CCC) has found many insurers are still using blanket mental health exclusions despite being required to assess customers' individual circumstances. Releasing its report on life insurers' compliance ...

Australian Alternative Investment Awards finalists named

STAFF WRITER  |  TUESDAY, 2 SEP 2025
... Indigenous education provider; Noro Music Therapy uses music to improve the wellbeing of those with disabilities and mental health challenges; and Women's Community Shelters provides safe emergency accommodation for women and children fleeing domestic ...

CALI launches review of Life Code

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 31 JUL 2025
... and updated in July 2023, incorporating several changes across sales, underwriting, premium disclosures, claims, mental health, vulnerable customers, sanctions, clarity on navigating the code, and the introduction of new enforceable provisions.

Sydney Alternative Investment Week to return in September

STAFF WRITER  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 JUL 2025
... Indigenous education provider; Noro Music Therapy uses music to improve the wellbeing of those with disabilities and mental health challenges; and Women's Community Shelters provides safe emergency accommodation for women and children fleeing domestic ...

Younger Aussies want personalised financial advice: CALI

MATTHEW WAI  |  TUESDAY, 22 JUL 2025
... adviser workforce, and increasing reliance on referral networks. The findings come after CALI revealed payouts for mental health claims for total and permanent disability (TPD) insurance have ballooned over $2.2 billion. The association also noted the ...

Mental illness payouts balloon over $2.2bn: CALI

MATTHEW WAI  |  FRIDAY, 11 JUL 2025
... leaving work permanently due to mental ill health than ever before with insurers paying out over $2.2 billion in mental health claims last year, according to new data from the Council of Australian Life Insurers (CALI). CALI said mental health is now ...

Cost-of-living, unaffordable advice fuels financial stress: Surveys

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 26 MAY 2025
... unable to work. CFS superannuation chief executive Kelly Power one in five men and one in three women say their mental health has been negatively impacted by their financial situation. "At the same time, an overwhelming number of Australians are crying ...

NGS Super to launch lifetime income product

MATTHEW WAI  |  TUESDAY, 15 APR 2025
... 69 (down from 70 in 2024) the key drivers of retirement happiness remained unchanged including activities (80), mental health and wellbeing (75), and a sense of purpose (72). "Ask a happy retiree what brings them joy, and they won't just talk about their ...

Future Generation appoints chief investment officer

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  TUESDAY, 18 FEB 2025
... performance fees so that 1% of the group's assets can be donated to non-profits that support youth at risk, youth mental health, and economic equality for women. Shareholders can choose which social impact partners or other not-for-profit organisations ...

Court sentences Ponzi scheme promoter

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 23 DEC 2024
... the harm went beyond financial losses to breakdowns of marriages and family relationships, emotional, physical and mental health issues, and the need to delay retirement or resume working in the face of a loss of financial security in their mature years," ...