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Industry split on life insurance cover: Poll

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 18 DEC 2017
... unnecessary erosion by automatically not charging income protection cover 13 months from the date of the last contribution. For death and total and permanent disability cover, trustees will stop charging premiums 13 months from the final contribution ...

Super life code released

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 18 DEC 2017
... will automatically cease charging income protection cover 13 months from the final contribution date. In terms of charging death and total and permanent disability cover, trustees will cease charging premiums 13 months from the final contribution and ...

Group insurance awareness encouraging: MetLife

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 12 DEC 2017
... specifics, 72% of respondents had limited knowledge of what the policies covered, with the majority more cognisant of what death cover entails compared to illness or accident protection. A major concern for 59% of employees was insurance companies' ability ...

New CFO named for $20bn industry fund

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 8 DEC 2017
... eventually merged with AMP, but overall it has been "one continuous relationship," VicSuper said. VicSuper has default cover for death, total and permanent disability, and income protection available for the majority of its 238,000 members. Dundon said ...

Industry super fund adapts new life insurance model

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 1 DEC 2017
... increase member awareness and understanding of the value of insurance as part of superannuation." The industry fund added that death and total and permanent disablement (TPD) cover is now also reduced for new members aged 18 to 34 years, while long-term ...

Financial Synergy founder launches new firm

ALEX BURKE  |  MONDAY, 27 NOV 2017
... life, no matter how long you live." The product also includes the option to revert to a partner or spouse after the owner's death. Orford explained: "There are several dimensions to this objective including adequacy, broad protection against inflation ...

Vision Super names new life insurer

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 21 NOV 2017
... from 1 January 2018. MLC Life Insurance will provide default life insurance cover to Vision Super's 10,000 member base for death, total and permanent disablement (TPD), and income protection. MLC Life was selected after an extensive tender process saw ...

Financial literacy the bridge for income protection gap

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 17 NOV 2017
... effectively gained through experience. However the experience of income loss due to disability, serious illness, or the premature death of a household breadwinner is not usually a recurring event. As covering income losses is not a repeated expenditure ...

TRIS tops adviser query list

EMMA RAPAPORT  |  THURSDAY, 9 NOV 2017
... TRIS, with questions surrounding whether a reversionary beneficiary can validly pass to the nominated beneficiary after death. "Parts of the new super laws and supporting commentary from the ATO point to the reversionary beneficiary themselves needing ...

VicSuper names new insurer

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 30 OCT 2017
... eventually merged with AMP, but overall it has been "one continuous relationship," VicSuper said. VicSuper has default cover for death, total and permanent disability, and income protection available for the majority of its 238,000 members. VicSuper ...