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Damned if you do

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 FEB 2009
... consumed by a recession? Like bragging that you have a million in your bank account while watching your family starve to death. Speaking of bank accounts, Westpac, ANZ, NAB and CBA's decision to pass on the RBA's 100 basis point interest rate cut to ...

Darkest before dawn

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 2 FEB 2009
... Some have already suffered heart attacks, others just simply gave up and committed hara kiri (honourable suicide). It's death by a thousand cuts. And in this current environment, it seems like death by a million chainsaws. Some who still have an inkling ...

Insurance still tops: super funds

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 19 JAN 2009
... sector super provider Super SA for instance has announced the roll-out of insurance upgrades to improve 'Triple S' members' Death and Total and Permanent Disablement (TPD) Insurance. The new enhancements include increasing the default Death and TPD Insurance ...

Introducing life cycle insurance: REST

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 12 DEC 2008
REST Superannuation has revolutionised life insurance in super by introducing a "life cycle" approach to its death cover - breaking away from the traditional fixed cost or "$1 a week" insurance model. Almost one million active members of the $13 billion ...

Same super rules for same sex couples

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  FRIDAY, 12 DEC 2008
... will 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 ...

AvSuper unlikely to follow govt fund mergers

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 5 DEC 2008
... Reward 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 ...

AXA ramps up group insurance

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 NOV 2008
... million cap on terminal illness benefit payments which means if the employee is diagnosed with an illness that will result in death within a year, the firm will pay the full amount. The maximum entry age for continuation options was also raised from ...

Zurich urges superannuation reform

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 NOV 2008
... calling the 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 ...

QIEC Super enhances services

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 10 NOV 2008
... investment mix from the 10 options. QIEC Super already enhanced its insurance product in July, increasing the maximum level of death cover by $3 million to $5 million. In addition, members can also transfer their existing insurance arrangements into ...

Australian Child Care revamps super

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 7 NOV 2008
... friend in tropical Bali," spruiked the fund. Finally the fund's automatic insurance cover has been increased from one unit death and total and permanent disability cover to two units of death and TPD cover. From 1 November, all eligible new members will ...