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BUSSQ lowers administration fees

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 27 MAY 2025
... used to support the delivery of products and services to members." As a result, all members will see premiums for their death and TPD cover rise. For example, a manual worker with the default four units of both cover types will see their collective premiums ...

Wealth management has never looked better: Knox

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 20 MAY 2025
... scene, it's really tough to be a fund manager; you're getting scalability problems and active managers are dying a death domestically because of all the in-housing of assets under management by industry super funds. So, asset management is tough ...

Cbus increases insurance premiums

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 MAY 2025
Cbus will increase insurance fees for death and total and permanent disability (TPD) cover from July 5. Those aged between 15 and 25 will see their fees remain the same, but those in older age brackets will be paying slightly more each week. For members ...

TPD claim settlements take 'considerably longer': Rainmaker

MATTHEW WAI  |  MONDAY, 12 MAY 2025
... New group insurance research finds that total permanent disability (TPD) claims are taking much longer to process, while death claims appear to have more efficient processes in place. According to Rainmaker's latest benchmarking data, a total of ...

Bill Gates to shutter Gates Foundation in 2045

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 9 MAY 2025
... foundation which, when established in 2000, was done so with the charter that it would continue for several decades after the death of Gates and his then wife, Melinda. Now, Gates says he has realised the foundation can achieve its goals much sooner ...

Life insurance premiums edge lower

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  TUESDAY, 6 MAY 2025
... total new individual risk premiums dropped 18.5% over the year, falling to $1.11 billion. This includes policies covering death, total and permanent disability (TPD), trauma, and income protection. Within that segment, lump sum new business fell 11.2% ...

Labor wins: What super, advice industries want

ELIZA BAVIN  |  MONDAY, 5 MAY 2025
... tax deal on super. The super lobby group called on the Albanese government to draft of legal reforms to around super's death benefit laws, so family violence perpetrators do not profit from their abuse. The group also called for "ending age-based ...

Rest details internal program to reform death benefit processes

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  FRIDAY, 2 MAY 2025
... of 'Project Scarlet,' an internal program that the fund's carried out over the past 18 months to improve its death benefit claims processes. A spokesperson for the $93 billion super fund said the program aligns with its broader ambition to ...

Super lobbies welcome bipartisan support to fight financial abuse

ELIZA BAVIN  |  MONDAY, 28 APR 2025
... to allows perpetrators of violence to inherit victims' super. "Under current laws, an abuser can receive a victim's super death benefit unless they are the direct cause of that person's death," Schubert said. "This applies even if the perpetrator has ...

Government to 'crack down further' on financial abuse

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 APR 2025
... looking at how perpetrators of domestic and family violence can be stopped from receiving their victim's superannuation after death. Superannuation advocacy body's Association of Superannuation Funds of Australia (ASFA) and Super Members Council (SMC) ...