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Professional Planner events were experienced through a wildly different lens this year as the industry pivoted (didn’t we hear that word a lot?) from live in-person seminars to online webinars. Zoom fatigue notwithstanding, the switch to online events was a resounding success not only for us but for the industry as a whole. People have embraced the convenience and the production quality has improved markedly across the board. As always, the success of our events has been due to not only the h...

Date Time ASIC report explores how to measure ‘value for money’ in default insurance in superannuation ASIC today released a report on measuring the value for money that Australians receive from default insurance provided by their superannuation funds. Superannuation trustees must offer default death and permanent incapacity insurance benefits on an opt-out basis to most members in a MySuper product. Many trustees also choose to offer default insurance to members in Choice superannuation pr...