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Lying rife in life insurance applications

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  FRIDAY, 9 JUL 2021
... insurance with 35% of men not insured 47% for women. "It's easy to think 'this won't happen to me', but the truth is that nothing in life is certain. I'd encourage Australians to make life insurance a regular part of their financial planning," Martin ...

Inheritance not expected: Research

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  FRIDAY, 2 JUL 2021
... income that is untaxed in Australia - someone who receives a bequest is not even liable for capital gains tax. "There's nothing more certain than death and taxes. But while people generally assume the combination is notoriously unpopular, our research ...

Your Future, Your Super passes

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  THURSDAY, 17 JUN 2021
... group insurance, but Cbus said this doesn't go far enough. "A Treasury review of unspecified outcome or timing will do nothing to mitigate the immediate impacts for workers in hazardous sectors. Within months workers in hazardous occupations are ...

Family law super reforms released

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  TUESDAY, 1 JUN 2021
... across Australia. "For many of our clients this reform will be the difference between walking away from a relationship with nothing and getting a fair split of super assets that will help them recover financially from years of abuse," Clarke said. "We ...

Super fund risk culture "immature": APRA

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  FRIDAY, 28 MAY 2021
... and incentives, shared values and risk culture assessment. "It's no coincidence leadership is number one on the list; nothing influences an institution's risk culture more than the words and actions of its board and senior executives - the tone from ...

Former adviser charged with $3.3m fraud

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 27 MAY 2021
... to his victims that the arrangements they were entering into with him that are now the subject of the prosecution had nothing to do with the company." Fineff opened up about his struggles with gambling to the ABC in mid-2020, revealing he lost $8 million ...

The secret to looking good in the media: Panel

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 MAY 2021
... matter of perspective. "If you're doing something ethically and responsibly and in the right way, then you've got nothing to worry about," Brown said. Topics are also possible landmines. "We are in a politically correct environment and there ...

Budget no cure for hangover from last one

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 MAY 2021
... Conference of Major Superannuation Funds on what the latest federal budget changes mean for super funds, saying they are nothing compared to those included in its predecessor. The removal of the $450 income threshold, lower age for downsizer contributions ...

Loomis Sayles wins super fund mandate

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 14 MAY 2021
... review of the $10.8 billion fund's defensive alternatives asset class at the end of 2020. Returns from cash is next to nothing and developed market sovereign bond yields remain low, he said, so by investing in this strategy the fund can generate ...

YFYS incentive to reduce fees: Hume

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  THURSDAY, 13 MAY 2021
... returns so should achieve a higher APRA performance test assessment," Dunnin said. "But if the fee 'reduction' was really nothing more than the fee load swapping from investment fee side to the administration fee side, then fees didn't lower - they were ...