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Govt begins long-awaited retirement income review

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  TUESDAY, 22 JUL 2014
... way for them to be used as a way to avoid drawing down on superannuation. It also questioned whether DLAs should include death benefits, suggesting that there should be some limit to avoid their use as estate planning tools rather than pure longevity ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 22 JUL 2014
... insisting that Moscow force pro-Russian insurgents to cooperate with an international probe into the disaster. Meanwhile, the death toll continued to rise in Gaza, where Israel has undertaken a ground assault against Hamas. LONDON - Europe's main stock ...

MySuper flips members out of millions: CSSA

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  TUESDAY, 24 JUN 2014
... the CSSA said members who were flipped into personal accounts are now being flipped back into MySuper accounts, where the death and total and permanent disability (TPD) cover may be much lower. CSSA Treasurer Gareth Hall said he spoke with one member ...

Research contradicts group risk claims crisis

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 16 JUN 2014
... of insurance members receive and how much they pay in premiums, has actually improved on a whole-of-industry scale. For death/TPD cover, average sum insured per dollar weekly premium for a 40 year old low risk Workplace member in 2014 is $62,249 - up ...

Group risk premiums on the up: Rice Warner

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 13 JUN 2014
... Warner analysis shows. The research and consulting business for the superannuation industry compared the average premiums for death and TPD cover for the 10 largest industry and public sector funds against the average premiums for the retail, adviser ...

Jeremy Cooper: Rethinking retirement

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  THURSDAY, 29 MAY 2014
... own life expectancies due to a combination of investment behaviour problems. People don't like thinking about their own death, and also information about life expectancy is quite out of date, flawed, difficult to understand. To read the rest of the article ...

Cbus insurance premiums jump to almost $15 a week

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  TUESDAY, 27 MAY 2014
... members on the default option will now be paying $14.30 a week, compared with $7.80 previously. They will be getting the same death and total and permanent disability (TPD) cover. Cbus members are largely in the construction and related industries, putting ...

Equip slashes insurance premiums

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 26 MAY 2014
Equip has announced cuts to premiums for its death and total and permanent disablement (TPD) cover and its salary continuance cover. Equip's chief executive officer Danielle Press said the reductions were the result of thorough examination of the fund's ...

BT Life targets SMEs with insurance product

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 15 MAY 2014
... loss of a key person, which shows that "there is an obvious need for cover." Small businesses usually have some kind of death, temporal and permanent disability or income protection cover that allows them to maintain cash flow. However, "businesses are ...

Masseurs Tony and Joey

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 MAY 2014
... reasons are simple. The measures contained in the Budget are not so tight that it chokes Australia's economic growth to death. It's now expected to detract only 0.1 percentage point from 2014/15 GDP growth, not the feared 0.3 - 0.5 percentage point subtraction. ...