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AIG builds major risk upgrade for AON

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 21 JUN 2007
... platform to really help their customers' under-insurance needs. The new features include new age-based minimum level default death and disablement insurance cover for corporate members, and death only insurance cover for personal members. It also combines ...

Party like it's 1983

... be applicable after June." The catch is that these strategies have to be finalised before June 30. "Don't leave it to the death-knell. Amalgamating super funds takes time, often a month or more, so get in early or you may be disappointed." Michelle B ...

CGT overshadows Simpler Super benefits: Centric

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 APR 2007
... overlooked. Esler outlined what she considered the five main issues regarding super and CGT. Concerning CGT on payment of death benefits, she said that under the new laws all lump sum payments on death of a self-managed superannuation fund (SMSF) member ...

Members should update binding beneficiaries: ASFA

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 26 MAR 2007
... complexities around negotiated familial tensions at times of member bereavement, ASFA has produced a Best Practice Paper on Death Benefits in conjunction with the Superannuation Complaints Tribunal. ASFA deputy chief executive officer, Dr Michaela Anderson ...

CommInsure ranked first in group risk

HAMISH MADDEN  |  TUESDAY, 13 FEB 2007
... all of their business, the most significant being AustralianSuper and its new group life policy. CommInsure designed a new death, total and permanent disablement (TPD) and income protection insurance package with new features and increased levels of ...

Super SA upgrades to insure those working longer

HAMISH MADDEN  |  FRIDAY, 2 FEB 2007
... insurance upgrades for all members in its Triple S fund, effective immediately. The insurance upgrades include extending the death and TPD cover from 60 to 65 years old and for those members in the closed defined benefit schemes access to this cover. ...

Employers should give TFNs to super funds: Mercer

NICK OLIVER  |  FRIDAY, 19 JAN 2007
... people as possible won't be affected." Promnitz also noted other anomalies regarding non-concessional contributions and death benefits treatment. Currently the proposals require super funds to reject all non-concessional contributions where a TFN has ...

Super tax changes could boost SMSFs: MultiPort

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 8 DEC 2006
... MultiPort, said superannuation investors trying manage tax on benefits for people under age 60, and more importantly for death benefits paid to non-dependants, might find it makes sense to create separate accounts for the same person so they can make ...

Macq splits the wrap

... considerations...advisers will be aware that they need to contemplate the long term consequences including those that could arise on the death of each spouse." Michelle Baltazar

JUST Super spices up its insurance

HAMISH MADDEN  |  THURSDAY, 23 NOV 2006
... just announced the roll-out of insurance upgrades for all members at no added cost. The insurance upgrades include improved death and TPD cover for those aged 16-40, an increase in the maximum level of cover to $2 million, payouts in advance for those ...