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Sunsuper overhauls insurance in favour of women

MATT WOODINGTON  |  TUESDAY, 5 JUL 2011
... highest for those aged 30 to 33, who get $250,000 of death and TPD. Another aspect of the new design is that AIA representatives will now be based in Sunsuper's head office to speed up the claims process. "Insurance companies tend to delegate a certain ...

Community housing wants to attract super funds

ALISON BEVEGE  |  FRIDAY, 1 JUL 2011
... Community Housing Federation of Victoria event, which will be attended by industry funds and investment industry representatives. According to National Housing Supply Council projections, there is a national shortfall of 230,000 dwellings this year ...

Equipsuper clears merger hurdle with Vision

ALISON BEVEGE  |  THURSDAY, 30 JUN 2011
... merged fund will be a hybrid structure with some positions elected and some appointed. On the member side, two representatives will be nominated by the Australian Services Union and two will be elected. On the employer side, one will be nominated by ...

Minister faces down advisers over opt-in, risk

ALISON BEVEGE  |  TUESDAY, 28 JUN 2011
... advisers embarked on a campaign of political lobbying last month to persuade key independents in the House of Representatives to oppose opt-in provisions and the banning of commissions for risk insurance in superannuation. On superannuation risk commissions ...

Guardian join AFA

ELISE BURGESS  |  THURSDAY, 16 JUN 2011
... Advisers (AFA) Licensee Partnership Program, adding to its 7,000 adviser base. Guardian has around 150 authorised representatives with more than 130,000 clients in Australia and said that through this partnership it intends to reduce membership fees ...

Financial services honoured with Queen's favour

ELISE BURGESS  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 JUN 2011
... Nations Refugee Agency - Australia for UNHCR. Darryl Seccombe is the managing director of DSA Financial, authorised representatives of GWM Adviser Services, and has been a financial adviser for 38 years. During this time, Seccombe was chairman of directors ...

Industry funds, independent platforms stand up for FOFA reforms

ALISON BEVEGE  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 JUN 2011
... services minister Senator Mathias Cormann on May 19 to target the four independent members of the Federal House of Representatives in their bid to have elements of the FOFA reforms scrapped. Since then consumer groups and industry fund representatives ...

Advisers aim for independents over FOFA

ALISON BEVEGE  |  THURSDAY, 19 MAY 2011
... The Senate would move from Coalition to Labor control with the support of the Greens, he said. But the House of Representatives would be in the hands of the independents. "The Coalition together with Tony Crook and Bob Katter has got 74 out of 150 Members ...

Bans hit bad planners: ASIC

ALISON BEVEGE  |  THURSDAY, 12 MAY 2011
... for four years. ASIC found that Kedesco had not adequately trained Whitting or taken reasonable steps to ensure representatives complied with financial services laws. Kedesco must remove Ronald Bray as the key person for the AFS license and document ...

High level super talks on now

ALISON BEVEGE  |  MONDAY, 2 MAY 2011
... sending chief executives to the meeting, as will retail sector funds. Also attending the Melbourne meeting will be representatives from financial services companies. Minister Shorten has previously flagged the lack of adequacy in retirement savings as ...