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ASIC targets NAB super after compliance breakdown

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 2 FEB 2017
... transferred to MLC MasterKey Business Super and MLC MasterKey Personal Super. Other highlighted issues involved changes made to death and total and permanent disablement insurance in both products. The risk management breakdown comprised inadequate disclosure ...

AustralianSuper lends muscle to big employers

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  TUESDAY, 24 JAN 2017
... additional features and the Business Solutions arm was born. Under Business Solutions, businesses can select default salary based death and total and permanent disablement (TPD) and income protection insurance policies across multiple employee categories ...

Property not the answer for passive

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 6 JAN 2017
... two conditions simply cannot coexist for long. As iron ore bulls learned a few years ago, record forthcoming supply is the death knell to record prices." Montgomery also points to the healthcare sector as a future goldmine for investors, saying there ...

Irish sovereign fund stamps out tobacco

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 22 DEC 2016
... tobacco control and is currently ranked second out of 34 countries. As we know tobacco use is a leading cause of preventable death in Ireland and throughout the world." "The legislation that established the Ireland Strategic Investment Fund provides ...

Brandon Capital to build largest Commonwealth VC fund

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 DEC 2016
... Managers' managing director Jeremy Curnock Cook said that too often Australian ideas "struggle to bridge that second valley of death," failing to find the capital necessary for commercialisation. "What is required is not just more money but an investment ...

CommSec pays $200,000 penalty

KERRIE SYDEE  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 NOV 2016
... record lock to the accounts of a deceased client and entering into unauthorised market transactions following the client's death. The Markets Disciplinary Panel (MDP) had reasonable ground to believe that CommSec broke subsection 798H(1) of the Corporations ...

Super funds should enforce corporate conduct: ASFA

ALEX BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 NOV 2016
... reflect the sentiments expressed in ASFA independent director Michael Easson's opening address, where he argued "disunity is death" and advocated greater collaboration between super funds and other stakeholders, including the companies in which they ...

Succession planning placed on the backburner

KERRIE SYDEE  |  TUESDAY, 25 OCT 2016
... businesses until their late 60s and 70s for a buyer and then being forced into a quick sale as illness, medical issues or even death strikes. "Never before have I seen so many buyers trying to sell at such short notice and retirement is the overwhelming ...

CommInsure under fire again

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 4 OCT 2016
... long-standing CommInsure customer who died from an accidental overdose in May 2014, was denied a claim on her accidental death cover. The insurer rejected the claim, saying Outzen's death was a suicide, despite police and the coroner ruling it an accident. ...

Life insurance reforms to be re-introduced

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 26 SEP 2016
... of need." Prior to lapsing, the amended regulation allowed for the provisional inclusion of stamp duty in commissions for death benefits while the industry upgrades its IT systems, outlined the phasing down of commissions and highlighted circumstances ...