INSURANCE INSIDE SUPERANNUATION

Superannuation

More unintended consequences appear to have emerged from the Government’s changes to insurance inside superannuation, with superannuation funds reporting an uptick in cla...

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Life/Risk

Serious questions have been raised about whether the Government even understood the existence of hundreds of thousands of ‘risk-only’ superannuation fund members when it ...

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Policy & Regulation

The Financial Services Council has received a clear message from the Government that it needs to make its Life Insurance Code of Conduct enforceable....

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Life/Risk

The Royal Commission today heard that AMP failed to refund members’ estates for fees charged on life insurance after AMP knew they had died....

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Life/Risk

AMP Limited charged a non-smoker $72,000 worth of premiums designed to be for smokers under a system that required non-smokers to submit a declaration identifying themsel...

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Superannuation

AIA has welcomed KPMG’s Insurance in Superannuation report, saying that the Government’s proposed changes would result in Australians being financially worse off....

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Life/Risk

The change to default group insurance put forward by the Federal Budget could result in a 50 per cent reduction in overall insurance cover inside super, KPMG has warned....

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