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Super funds to answer to new APRA enforcer

ELIZA BAVIN  |  FRIDAY, 19 MAR 2021
... sector for over seven years, will take over primary responsibility for overseeing the general, life and private health insurance sector. APRA chair Wayne Byres welcomed Cole to the regulator and said he is looking forward to working with her to safeguard ...

Cost of living eroding super: ASFA

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 4 MAR 2021
... premiums, which increased from 1 October 2020 by around 3%. About 2.2 million Australians aged over 65 have private health insurance, up from two million just three years earlier. "COVID-19 impacted on just about every aspect of Australia's financial ...

APRA Connect to go live in 2021

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 22 DEC 2020
... both D2A and APRA Connect in the medium term. From September, the Superannuation Data Transformation and Private Health Insurance Reform will be the first projects to go live in APRA Connect. It will be used by entities to provide information such as ...

HESTA partners with Australian Unity

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  TUESDAY, 1 DEC 2020
... social infrastructure and to help support business consolidations in important mutual sectors such as private health insurance, banking and friendly societies," Australian Unity Group managing director Rohan Mead said. "We've seen extraordinary growth ...

Australian Unity launches new fund

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 15 OCT 2020
... placed to bring together Australian Unity's experience and insights from its diversified businesses across private health insurance, healthcare, aged care, healthcare property, social infrastructure, funds management and venture capital," he said. Portfolio ...

Low inflation rate masks rising living costs woes

KRISTI CHENG  |  TUESDAY, 13 AUG 2019
... 4.9%, and vegetables by 6.2%. Petrol prices have also gone up in the last 12 months, as is the cost of private health insurance, which continues to grow at around twice the general rate of inflation, he said. "Many retirees would have welcomed the recent ...

Life insurer early intervention reforms dumped

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 25 OCT 2018
... providing payments for treatment to Australians at risk of long-term incapacity where they are not covered by private health insurance, the FSC said in a statement. "The industry proposed early intervention will allow insurers to fund a range of treatments ...

TAL hired private investigator to follow claimant: Royal Commission

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 13 SEP 2018
... documents including her tax records, GP's medical records, psychiatrist's records, Medicare history, private health insurance claims history, workers compensation file and employee assistance program. TAL then said the nurse had breached her duty of ...

Life insurers should fund medical rehabilitation: MLC

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 21 MAY 2018
... Parliamentary Joint Committee - with giants like MLC Insurance and AustralianSuper batting for it while the private health insurance industry raises its concerns. MLC Life Insurance is supporting legislation changes to allow life insurers to fund medical ...

Australians raid super to pay for medical expenses

EMMA RAPAPORT  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 JAN 2018
... these operations should be provided by the public hospital system, and those Australians who don't have private health insurance shouldn't be tapping into their super where the operation is indicated," he said. "We have a fabulous superannuation system ...