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Insurance within super

Section: 10.1

10.1 Insurance within super

Group insurance

Superfunds and MySuper products can offer these insurance deals because they group their members together into very large, combined wholesale insurance policies. This enables them to buy insurance at cheaper rates because large groups of super fund members are insured under a single insurance policy held in the name of the super fund's trustee.

These superfunds group insurance policies can also be simpler than regular insurance because they are usually based solely upon the member's age or other overall characteristics of the groups. Some super funds may however split members into higher risk or lower risk occupational groups e.g. trade workers versus executive managers, heavy blue collar versus light manual, and white collar versus professional.

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Last modified: Friday, June 23, 2023