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Vision Super refreshes premium rates

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 30 SEP 2024
... TPD fixed cover for a 50-year-old will cost 7.1 cents for the general category and 3.2 cents for professionals based on a weekly charge per $1000 sum insured. A 40-year-old member covered for $400,000, for example, will be charged $7.60 per week or $395.20 ...

Vale Greg Bright

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 27 AUG 2024
... to the financial services industry. His titles included Ethical Investor, I &T News, IFA, Investor Supermarket, Investor Weekly, IO&C News, Master Funds Quarterly, Professional Planner, Super Review, and Top 1000 Funds. In 1994, Rainmaker Information ...

NGS Super to cut insurance premiums

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  TUESDAY, 27 AUG 2024
... members" will experience an increase in costs. On average, its members will see a 13.9% reduction in insurance premiums. The weekly cost of income protection cover will decrease by an average of 22.4%, while life insurance premiums will drop 11.5%. Total ...

Cbus unleashes raft of fee changes

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 30 JUL 2024
... per week to $1 per week from September 28, saving members $26 per year. The total administration fees are made up of a weekly and percentage fee, so while the weekly fee has changed the percentage fee has remained the same at 0.19% of the account balance ...

Equip Super reduces admin fees, introduces insurance fee

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 27 JUN 2024
... Elgas plans, but their maximum fee charged will drop to $950. For retirement products, both the asset-based fee and the weekly administration fee will be reduced. The weekly fee will almost halve, going from $1.95 to $1, while the asset-based component ...

MIESF adjusts insurance premiums

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  MONDAY, 3 JUN 2024
... 9%. The actual premium deducted from MIESF members' accounts will vary based on age. For instance, for a 25-year-old, the weekly cost for $200,000 in death cover and $150,000 in TPD cover, will increase from $4.13 to $4.85. For a 40-year-old, the weekly ...

ASIC slams funds' serious deficiencies over advice fee charges

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 9 MAY 2024
... interest. When it comes to monitoring them, ASIC found trustees' checks against the Financial Advisers Register varied from weekly to annually or were ad-hoc. "Trustees must be vigilant, as advisers with poor conduct, including those using cold calling ...

AustralianSuper announces insurance changes

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 MAY 2024
... write to you soon after it starts to tell you your new cover amounts (including any cover you may already have) and the new weekly cost of your cover," AustralianSuper said. "You'll have the opportunity to cancel it effective 1 June 2024 if you decide ...

Super contribution caps to rise on July 1

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 22 FEB 2024
... Superannuation contribution caps will go up on July 1, after the Australian Bureau of Statistics reported an increase in average weekly ordinary time earnings (AWOTE). The ABS reported the AWOTE rose 4.5%, seasonally adjusted, in the year to November ...

ASIC issues interim stop orders against Keystone

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 8 FEB 2024
... the underlying funds and investments in them; and give the impression that investors can withdraw amounts from the fund weekly when redemptions are actually at the discretion of Keystone and money can be locked up for up to two years. Finally, ASIC said ...