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Huge opportunity in untapped business insurance

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 31 OCT 2012
... certainly possess the skills and expertise to advise business owners on the value of taking out insurance to protect against the death or serious injury of a key stakeholder. "Whether it is personal life insurance or business owner insurance, the objectives ...

Avoid estate planning mistakes

BEN COLLINS  |  TUESDAY, 30 OCT 2012
... arrangements have been made for superannuation to become part of the estate. This can be done, though, by making a valid binding death benefit nomination naming the legal personal representative as beneficiary, she said. Hacker also said that it is worth ...

Most funds to offer default IP for MySuper

BEN COLLINS  |  TUESDAY, 2 OCT 2012
... results, with 55% of respondents indicating their fund's MySuper product would include default income protection alongside death and TPD insurance. The remaining 45% said they would not include default IP and cited cost, personal nature of the protection ...

Gonski calls for NFP director liability review

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 SEP 2012
... affluent in Australia does not match what would be expected in the global context. Dismissing the idea of forced giving by death duties, Gonski yesterday said any such measures would represent an over-reaction, with a danger of ending up with death duties ...

AMP launches group insurance offering

LINDA HAUSKEN  |  TUESDAY, 28 AUG 2012
... automatic insurance without the need for underwriting," he added. In addition, AMP Group Insurance provides an immediate Death and Terminal Illness cover for all causes - work or non-work related health issues.

Decouple next-gen education from estate planning conversation

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  TUESDAY, 14 AUG 2012
... many years is protected when it transfers. "That means both ensuring strategies are in place so they don't get stung with death taxes or capital gains tax, but also that within the next generation they are fully equipped to know how to manage it into ...

Structured products right for the risk-aware

BEN COLLINS  |  MONDAY, 30 JUL 2012
... likelihood, bringing a smile to the faces of those critics who argue these products are the financial equivalent of the Black Death." However, Lucas said that to use those declining numbers to suggest the slow demise of structured products would be wrong. ...

Playing with a loaded dice

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 26 JUL 2012
... cliff - we've all been staring at them for quite a while now. Not only are we aware of these, they've been scrutinised to death by "experts", international institutions, government bodies, central banks and laymen. This gives me confidence that while ...

Make sure the right people inherit your super

LINDA HAUSKEN  |  TUESDAY, 3 JUL 2012
With death benefit disputes accounting for the lion's-share of complaints received by the Superannuation Complaints Tribunal, Topdocs has now incorporated a death benefit guardian provision in its SMSF trust deeds. The specialist self-managed superannuation ...

Childhood determines who rises to the top

LINDA HAUSKEN  |  THURSDAY, 28 JUN 2012
... business. Fitzsimmons said most of the women had also suffered major adversity between the age of eight and 15 years, such as death of a parent or being victim of domestic violence. In bleak contrast, men who rise to the top typically grow up in stable ...