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Government carves out super deal

HARRISON WORLEY  |  FRIDAY, 15 FEB 2019
... remain cost effective and matched to the insurance needs of members taking into account age and other factors such as occupational risk." Also passing through the Senate last night were changes to the level of scrutiny on choice superannuation products ...

Retirement living advice is an opportunity: Challenger Financial Standard Technical Services Forum

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 21 SEP 2018
... also removed the ability for Australians to transfer their pension to a retail superannuation plan, and left a few occupational, public sector and employer sponsored schemes in place, he said.

EU to offer cross-border pension scheme

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 12 JUL 2018
... a pan-European framework for people who wish to use PEPPs as a saving option. PEPPs would complement state-based, occupational and national personal pension schemes, but not replace or harmonise them. Under the proposal, PEPPs would have the same standard ...

High profile adviser under fire

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 26 APR 2018
... considered it was my public duty to provide assistance to the Royal Commission." "If someone with my educational and occupational background hits a wall when endeavouring to engage proper disciplinary processes, what hope does someone without those have?" ...

Royal Commission to take "labyrinthine" advice legislation to task

ALEX BURKE  |  MONDAY, 9 APR 2018
... 1990s, at a time where "economic, political and social factors - including financial sector deregulation, changes to occupational superannuation arrangements, and expanding equity-market participation rates resulting from privatisations and demutualisations ...

Industry fund pilots cancer wellness program

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 11 JAN 2018
... members, focusing on identifying solutions to barriers that prevent returning to wellness and work. It uses national occupational rehabilitation services provider IPAR's wellness coaching model developed in conjunction with Monash University and Cancer ...

Industry fund teams with Challenger on retirement

EMMA RAPAPORT  |  THURSDAY, 27 APR 2017
... legalsuper are in a better position than the larger funds to be nimble and respond to the specific retirement needs of an occupational group. "These guaranteed income accounts are designed to cater to, in particular, those members who want increased ...

BT health score helping claimants back to work

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 29 JUL 2016
... health outcome measure as part of its broader health support program, in consultation with clinical psychologists, occupational therapists and health support experts. The program is based on research from the Australasian Faculty of Occupational and ...

Super insurance premiums rise again

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 28 JUN 2016
... premiums rose an average of 4%. Over the last 10 years the premium cycle has been more pronounced for risks with higher occupational hazard. Death and TPD high occupational risks decreased 30% between 2007 and 2011 and have steadily increased since. ...

PROFILE: SuperBPO chief executive Michael Houlihan

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 23 OCT 2015
... small part of the Tax Act - in fact it was about three of four paragraphs," Houlihan says. "Then what you had was the Occupational Superannuation Standards Act 1987 which then became the first really chunky bit of superannuation law. In 1994 it became ...