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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 ...

Catholic Super enhances insurance

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 27 OCT 2008
Catholic Super members can now claim 43 per cent more on basic death and death and total and permanent disability (TPD) cover at no extra cost after the fund upgraded its insurance service with TOWER Australia. The negotiated insurance service means ...

MTAA campaign halves death claims

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 24 OCT 2008
MTAA Super's suicide death claims fell by 53 per cent since the fund launched its mental health awareness campaign, readthesigns, in 2004. The readthesigns initiative between MTAA Super and Lifeline Australia was launched in 2004 as a result the trustee's ...

MLC upgrades its group insurance suite

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 23 OCT 2008
... insurance providers on each firm's superannuation membership potential. MLC is ranked eighth in the group insurance market for death insurance and death/TPD insurance. MLC holds a three per cent market share in death insurance and a five per cent market ...

Central Banks must unite

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 OCT 2008
... current market turmoil has already reached its one-year anniversary. This drawn out correction is contributing to the slow death of the market. And admittedly, the problem is much more serious this time. The current financial market turmoil indicates ...

Lifeplan keeps it in the family

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 2 OCT 2008
... when a client dies. The retail funds management firm's NextGen Wealth Preserver is structured so the client's funds, upon death, are transferred tax free to each nominated beneficiary in a NextGen account. Money can then be regularly paid to the beneficiary's ...

Less claims, more benefits: ANZ Super

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 22 SEP 2008
ANZ Super has reported a lower than expected number of TPD and death insurance claims, an actuarial investigation found - prompting the fund to lower its premium rates as a reward to its members. The fund's actuary recently completed actuarial investigation ...

Greater fool with no shorts

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 22 SEP 2008
... authorities combined to wrench the claws off the credit squeeze that, last week, threatened to strangle the US financial system to death. The George W. Bush administration proposed to build a dumpster - worth US700 billion - hopefully big enough to contain ...

AIG Australia insulated from US woes

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 SEP 2008
... Benchmarking Report analysis of the 2008 group insurance market, AIG is the biggest insurer measured by total members covered for death-only and income protection insurance with more than 20 per cent of the market. For death and TPD insurance they are ...

Once lost, now found: super

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