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Super funds launch mental-illness claims benchmark

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 SEP 2014
... conducted in association with IFS Insurance Solutions, looks at the claims experience of 13 industry super funds relating to death claims due to suicide, and total and permanent disability (TPD) and income protection (IP) claims due to mental illness. ...

CommInsure offers alternative to group insurance

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  FRIDAY, 19 SEP 2014
... policy anniversary." The changes apply to life cover, total permanent disability cover, income care super and accidental death cover.

Expand PLS to all age pensioners: TAI

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 18 SEP 2014
... of their age pension secured against their home equity. The loans are repaid either on the sale of the property or on the death of the loan recipient. The TAI said this makes the PLS equivalent to an equity release scheme. "We propose a simple extension ...

Young Australians clueless about life insurance

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 SEP 2014
... include life cover. The high level of disengagement among fund members means some may be paying several dollars a week for death insurance they do not want or need. ASFA chief executive Pauline Vamos urged people to take an active interest in their insurance. ...

Carried away by the dollar-A

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 SEP 2014

Insurance through super saves $403 million

STAFF WRITER  |  FRIDAY, 29 AUG 2014
... In terms of the total size of insurance cover across the community, group insurance within super represents 71% of total death benefit sums insured, 88% of overall total and permanent disablement (TPD) sums insured and 59% of income protection monthly ...

SMSF wind up trend is not real: SuperGuardian

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 19 AUG 2014
... time, or because they have been closed down by the ATO," she said. But she argued that other causes to wind up SMSFs can be death or ageing of a trustee, the taxation benefits of SMSFs becoming no longer relevant to retirees or moving oversees.

Tribunal sees rise in super admin complaints

ALICE URIBE  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 AUG 2014
... Superannuation Complaints Tribunal (SCT) for the June 2014 quarter. Of the complaints received 38.6% related to administration with death benefit complaints making up the second-largest category at 34%. This quarter also saw an increase in complaints ...

Dying in social media: adviser's next big nightmare

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 31 JUL 2014
... advisers specialising in estate planning, as they will be forced to deal with the person's digital footprint after their death. Equity Trustees (EQT) wills and estates specialist Anna Hacker believes the issue is an emerging problem that is becoming ...

Punishing Putin (harder)

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 JUL 2014
... then be placed in the loop and twisted by an executioner, causing the rope to tighten until it strangled the prisoner to death". Sorry to spoil your breakfast folks, yes it's a gruesome torture and death device and this is what 'the West' is applying ...