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NAB Super introduces binding death benefits

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 26 MAY 2009
Members of the $3.1 billion corporate fund NAB Group Superannuation Fund can now apply for binding death benefit nominations. The fund, which said in March that it was considering introducing the benefit, are now allowing members to provide the fund ...

AvSuper revamps death insurance

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 APR 2009
The $1 billion aviation industry super fund AvSuper has introduced anti-detriment provisions to members' death benefits. Launched at the start of this year, AvSuper announced anti-detriment provisions will now apply to the death benefits paid to a spouse ...

Same super rules for same sex couples

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  FRIDAY, 12 DEC 2008
... address what has long been viewed as discrimination against same-sex de facto couples when it came to superannuation death benefits. Under existing Commonwealth superannuation and pension laws, it's not specified whether the same-sex spouse and dependent ...

AvSuper unlikely to follow govt fund mergers

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 5 DEC 2008
... Investment Alliance (ARIA), the Military Superannuation and Benefits Scheme and the Defence Force Retirement and Death Benefits Scheme would merge under a single trustee board in 2010. Lindsay Tanner, minister for finance and deregulation, said the outcome ...

Zurich urges superannuation reform

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 NOV 2008
... government to review superannuation legislation after a report found non-dependants could potentially miss out on death benefits. The firm's Death and taxes are certain - super still confounds whitepaper found complex superannuation legislation is causing ...

Once lost, now found: super

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 18 AUG 2008
... (ASIC) and focuses on superannuation, locating lost superannuation, providing tax file numbers and information about death benefits.

New super book for indigenous mob

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 5 AUG 2008
... issues. It focuses on superannuation, locating lost superannuation, providing tax file numbers and information about death benefits. Minister for superannuation and corporate law, Senator Nick Sherry, said the booklet is designed to assist indigenous ...

Remarried war vet widows get pension

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 1 AUG 2008
... the Superannuation Act 1922, the Defence Forces Retirement Benefits Act 1948 and the Defence Force Retirement and Death Benefits Act 1973 have recently been amended to prospectively restore spouse pensions for remarried widows and widowers. Although ...

ASFA supports same sex super bill

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 1 AUG 2008
... benefit or risk receiving nothing at all. Vamos said same sex couples currently pay higher tax on superannuation death benefits, an issue she said, must be addressed. Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) census data found more than 50,000 Australians ...

Qantas Super raises insurance cover

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 10 JUL 2008
... will be provided for funds which are used as the "default" fund under the current Choice of Fund regulation. "The death benefits from the plan are, in nearly all cases, expected to exceed these minimum cover requirements. However to ensure that this ...