News Welcome to West Coast - Patrick Bines

[Shuestar13]

Eh, probably need to make a separate thread for this topic.

Depends which CFS product you have, some of their cheaper ones have the caveat that you need to invest in their managed funds to get the benefit of low management fees. It's effectively vertical integration, which is frowned upon these days.

The most popular super funds amongst advisers I talk to are probably Macquarie, BT Panorama & HUB24.
MLC, CFS & IOOF are probably the next rung down.

No worries haha, thank you for the information. Appreciate it

 

[Bleedblueandgold]

The first super company I was ever with was AMP because my employer signed me up to them themselves. Not long after I quit using them, the balance became zero very quickly due to the insanely high account keeping fees and no returns.

 

[JackieMoon33]

AMP came out of the Royal Commission particularly badly too, seem like a really shitty company all around.

Have a read of the TPD definitions in your industry super fund, and you'll be surprised to find you have the same sh*tty definition as the AMP policy the poor guy had...

 

[ROO DOGG]

Hate stories like this. Whatever it's worth, I wish Bines all the best.

Good luck to whoever takes up Gil's poisoned chalice too. You're gonna get proper f’ed once these class action suits and all the concussion-related stuff really comes out too.

While Gil walks away scott-free.

yep and Gil goes on TV and says I think it's just the right time for me to leave and spend some quality time with my family. Pathetic Bastard he knows the shit's going to hit the fan and instead of owning his failings he walks away Scot free and washes his hands of it and leaves it for someone else to deal with all the while accepting a nice superannuation payout himself.

 

[bzparkes]

What's more likely, he didn't want it mentioned or that he's one of many rookie picks who just disappear (sometimes halfway through the season) never to be mentioned again.

Who knows? They can't just release medical info though, so it's irrelevant. No point beating the club up over it unless some news comes out that they actually treated him badly.