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FEATURE: Reshaping insurance

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 22 OCT 2015
... master trusts, revealed that average sum insured per dollar per week has fallen 4.6% over the past 12 months for combined death and total permanent disability (TPD) cover and 5.6% for death-only cover. A few very large clients One of the key reasons ...

Hostplus brings insurance fees down

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 25 SEP 2015
From tomorrow Hostplus members will see a 3% insurance premium decrease across death and total and permanent disablement (TPD) products. The premium decrease follows negotiations and a recent partnership renewal between Hostplus and global life insurance ...

SMSFs impacted by power of attorney rule changes

STAFF WRITER  |  THURSDAY, 24 SEP 2015
... which are not uncommon in the SMSF context but are likely to involve such a conflict are: the attorney making a binding death benefit nomination for the principal (as member of a super fund) in favour of the attorney;A the attorney amending the nomination ...

TAL, Zurich dominate life awards

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 15 SEP 2015
... of the life insurance sector for the period ending 31 December 2014, APRA's figures show that $7.032 billion was paid in death and disability claims over the past year. This is up considerably on the previous year's figure of $6.259 billion." Interestingly ...

Super outstrips other channels in disability risk profits

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 AUG 2015
... super and a loss of 10.5% for ordinary channels in 2014. Traditional channels stood up much better in the lump sum risk, or death and TPD, product segment. Ordinary channels managed to increase profit margin from 10.8% to 12.4% between 2014 and 2015. ...

Indigenous super on Canberra agenda

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 17 AUG 2015
Eliminating excessive red tape between superannuation funds, government agencies and indigenous Australians will be a priority when a working group meets with politicians in Canberra this week. Members of the Indigenous Superannuation Working Group ...

Cbus moves insurance to TAL

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 7 AUG 2015
... members, which is a significant agreement for the fund that includes construction and building workers with higher risk of death or injury. Last year Cbus received 1800 insurance claims and increased its premiums A to reflect that risk. As part of the ...

Fundhost appoints joint CEO

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 4 AUG 2015
... sector. "We see that as a very viable sector. We think that the retail unit trust, while there's been a lot of talk about its 'death', you might say, will become very viable going forward given the rise of the self-managed superannuation (SMSF) structure," ...

Financial advice is a boring game

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 30 JUL 2015
... comments to Financial Standard about clients being overwhelmed by information they don't understand, Lazenby said there is a "death by detail" at the client prospect stage. "They have to fill out a fact-finder before they can even see you. It makes financial ...

American IRAs not super funds

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 20 JUL 2015
... fund and whether proposed payment from an IRA would be seen as a scheme payment in the nature of super upon retirement or death. Special counsel at Townsends Business & Corporate Lawyers, Michael Hallinan, said the decision means any payment from an ...