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BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 24 AUG 2009
Death by a thousand cuts. Or more accurately -- death by a thousand rebounds. This must be what the bears are feeling each time equities bounce back from a fall. Equity markets are volatile even in the best of times. That is a certitude. For each and ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 20 AUG 2009
... demand for cleaner vehicles. Shares in firms that produce medical masks and the fabrics to make them climbed after a third death from the H1N1 flu in Japan. The benchmark Nikkei fell 0.8 per cent or 80.96 points to 10,204.00, its lowest close since late ...

Ripoll Inquiry must build on FSR progress: AFA

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 6 AUG 2009
... could help improve Australia's financial advice system - but any radical changes to current FSR arrangements could chime the death knell of good financial advice, warns a key industry association. Richard Klipin, chief executive of the Association of ...

UCSuper appoints IUS as insurer

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 4 AUG 2009
... according to notices to members. As a result of the new appointment, the trustee of UCSuper managed to negotiate improved death and TPD benefits for members at the same premium cost per unit of $2.00 per week for death and TPD, and $1.10 per week for ...

Media Super hires ING as insurer

COMPANY RELEASE  |  THURSDAY, 23 JUL 2009
Media Super has appointed ING Life as its new insurer for death and total and permanent disability insurance cover, and its income protection cover. The appointment follows a six-month intensive tender process. Media Super, an industry super fund with ...

CommInsure launches insurance WriteAway

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 JUL 2009
... afternoon and by the next day, the application was ready to complete. The system also enables planners to complete an accidental death policy in just four minutes. "The reason we developed WriteAway is that the insurance industry has normally been associated ...

LGsuper expands options

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 9 JUL 2009
... half-yearly and annual payment options. Pension payment dates have also been changed to the 28th of each month. Meanwhile death benefit payments have undergone a revamp. Until March this year, LGsuper's trust deed required the fund's board of directors ...

Aon upgrades insurance

PRESS RELEASE  |  THURSDAY, 9 JUL 2009
Aon Master Trust has improved its insurance for members to include unlimited death cover and higher total and permanent disablement (TPD) and income protection limits. The trust has increased the TPD benefit to $3 million and income protection has risen ...

HESTA improves insurance

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 30 JUN 2009
The $13 billion HESTA has improved its income protection and death covers - all without an increase to the premiums charged to members. Currently, members with HESTA's default insurance generally have two units of death cover and two units of income ...

AGEST Super upgrades insurance

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 22 JUN 2009
... without having to undergo a health check. Members that meet certain criteria will automatically receive or can apply for death and total and permanent disability (TPD) and income protection cover from the fund. The fund's insurance premiums have not ...