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Soaring funeral costs require adviser airtime

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 16 JUL 2018
... about $7449. Hacker said it does depend on the location in Sydney and the costs of different plots of land do vary. The death and funeral conversations do take place with clients, and she typically advises either a funeral bond or a prepaid funeral. ...

Financial services employees face ongoing stress at work

HARRISON WORLEY  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 JUL 2018
... often engaging with members and customers during some really tough moments in their lives, such as redundancy, illness, death or major life changes like retirement," Lydon said. "All of these moments require staff to be empathetic, supportive as well ...

Disability income insurance an ongoing concern: APRA

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 10 JUL 2018
... reinsurers often rely on cross-subsidisation, APRA said, meaning DII is subsidised by other business lines, such as lump sum death and total permanent disability insurance. "The reinsurers have indicated they would like to reduce cross-subsidies as much ...

Super funds countdown to Royal Commission

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 9 JUL 2018
... will also look at identification issues, conditions of early release and the difficulties associated with the release of death benefits. As a financial counsellor for Anglicare in the Northern Territory, Philip Bowden told the Commission that 80% of ...

Same insurance cover, different price: Research

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 3 JUL 2018
... convergence on a tight policy condition that applies to Total and Permanent Disability insurance that is often bundled with death insurance. In the past, to claim on these policies many super fund members who had been severely injured or who have contracted ...

Super State of Origin: Who wins?

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 JUN 2018
... most expensive and cheapest MySuper product between the two states. On average, a 25-year-old will pay more per week for Death and Total and Permanent Disablement (TPD) insurance in a NSW superannuation fund. Again NSW has the most expensive and cheapest ...

Life insurance data improving: Regulators

HARRISON WORLEY  |  FRIDAY, 25 MAY 2018
... admittance in TPD cover, registering 67% while group was admitted at an 84% rate, with individual-advised reaching 86%. Death cover achieved a 97% admittance rate across all distribution channels in the period, while disability income insurance claims ...

What the associations want from Budget 2018

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 8 MAY 2018
... promoting financial literacy for women, inclusion of financial planners in Statutory Declaration Regulations and simplifying death benefits, among others. The FPA also wants the Government to let working Australians above the age of 75 to make contributions ...

Government to increase SMSF member limit

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 30 APR 2018
... via intergenerational transfers. The proposals won't force the sale of properties out of the SMSF in the event a parent's death for instance, he said.

RECAP: Advice in the Royal Commission spotlight (Days 6- 9)

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 27 APR 2018
... financial advisers, were involved in witnessing client forms incorrectly. NAB adviser Bradley Meyn witnessed non-lapsing binding death benefit nominations in clients' absence. The bank finally fired Meyn for "deliberately falsifying details". However ...