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Hume promoted to cabinet

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  MONDAY, 21 DEC 2020
... has been a key playing in introducing plans to remove grandfathered commissions to financial advisers, the Protecting Your Super Package and extending the time for advisers to complete the Financial Adviser Standards and Ethics Authority exams and winding ...

What you read in 2020

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 18 DEC 2020
As we farewell a year that many will be glad to see the back of, check out Financial Standard 's most read stories for 2020. The COVID-19 pandemic underscores the majority of this year's most widely read stories, as unprecedented shutdowns and ...

FS team picks: The top stories for 2020

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR, KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 17 DEC 2020
Of the almost 3500 stories penned this year, these are the stories the Financial Standard team feels defined 2020. The Financial Standard editorial team has written 3484 stories so far in 2020. It wasn't always easy either. Like most of you, we ...

Retail fund ups premiums

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  TUESDAY, 15 DEC 2020
... Super and QSuper also all increased income protection premiums recently. Many of the funds said that the Protecting Your Super and Putting Members' Interests First reforms had triggered an exodus from group policies - decreasing the insured pool and ...

Underinsurance gap worsens: Research

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 20 NOV 2020
... underinsured. This includes the Insurance in Super Voluntary Code of Practice, Life Insurance Framework reforms, Protecting Your Super (PYS)/ Putting Members' Interests First (PMIF) legislation and COVID-19, according to the firm's 2020 underinsurance ...

Industry fund hikes income protection premiums

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  FRIDAY, 16 OCT 2020
... 90-day waiting period. Media Super attributes the rise in premiums to the recent changes in legislation, Protecting Your Super and Putting Members' Interests First, which has triggered an exodus members holding insurance within superannuation. "As a ...

Hostplus freezes premiums

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 OCT 2020
... of super funds have had to increase insurance premiums recently after legislative changes including the Protecting Your Super and Putting Members' Interests First packages saw the pool of insured accounts decrease. REI Super, Tasplan, legalsuper and ...

REI Super ups insurance premiums

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  THURSDAY, 8 OCT 2020
... COVID-19 on expected claims experience." In May 2019, REI Super increased life insurance premiums blaming the Protecting Your Super reforms. At the time, death and TPD for those assessed under standard rates increased from $1.42 to $1.66 per week; while ...

Group risk inflows fall 15%

ALLY SELBY  |  MONDAY, 28 SEP 2020
... premium inflows fell 15% over the 12 months to June, with fresh legislation to blame. This includes the 'Protecting Your Super' legislation, which came into effect on 1 July 2019 (to protect super savings from unnecessary erosion by fees and insurance ...

Tasplan raises IP premiums

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 15 SEP 2020
... members. It said it has fewer insured members covered by its group insurance policies after changes under Protecting Your Super and Putting Members' Interest First legislations. For example, a 40 year-old member with income protection (two-year benefit) ...