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Insurance

The Actuaries Institute has expressed concern that the average delay in superannuation funds and their insurers dealing with total and permanent disability claims is two ...

Superannuation

Consumer group Choice has questioned whether high fee active managers are actually delivering value in the superannuation space....

Insurance

The insurance within superannuation regime is far from perfect but it is vital to addressing Australia’s under-insurance problem, according to Mercer....

Superannuation

Industry Super Australia has attacked the direction of the Productivity Commission’s latest superannuation inquiry arguing it is too focused on competition while ignoring...

Insurance

The Productivity Commission has been told increased and negative publicity around insurance within superannuation drove a surge in opt-out in 2016....

Insurance

The Productivity Commission’s findings on insurance within superannuation will inform the Government’s future policy on maintaining the current ‘opt-out’ regime....

Expert Analysis

The Government has pointed to superannuation balance erosion for young and lower paid fund members as a reason to contemplate making insurance inside superannuation ‘opt-...

Superannuation

The Australian Institute of Superannuation Trustees believes long-term underperforming default funds should lose their default status....

Insurance

SuperRatings has warned that the exclusion of insurance from the Productivity Commission’s assessment has compromised its initial default super findings....

Superannuation

The Productivity Commission appears to believe that the scale test has not been applied effectively by APRA on default funds, according to Rice Warner....

Superannuation

The Productivity Commission may have argued against making it a political battle, but Industry Super Australia and the Financial Services Council have dug in on opposing ...

Superannuation

UniSuper has warned the Productivity Commission against the temptation to tinker with defined benefit defaults....

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Grant Banner

From my perspective, 40- 50% of people are likely going to be deeply unhappy about how long they actually live. ...

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Kevin Gorman

Super director remuneration ...

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Anthony Asher

No doubt true, but most of it is still because over 45’s have been upgrading their houses with 30 year mortgages. Money ...

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Australia’s largest superannuation fund has confirmed all members who had funds stolen during the recent cyber fraud crime have been reimbursed. ...

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As institutional investors grapple with shifting sentiment towards US equities and fresh uncertainty surrounding tariffs, Australia’s Aware Super is sticking to a discipl...

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Market volatility continued to weigh on fund returns last month, with persistent uncertainty making it difficult to pinpoint how returns will fare in April. ...

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