{"id":58223,"date":"2021-10-21T10:59:27","date_gmt":"2021-10-21T00:59:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/?p=58223"},"modified":"2024-10-30T08:44:17","modified_gmt":"2024-10-29T22:44:17","slug":"pps-mutual-2021-profit-share-assignment-to-members","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/2021\/10\/21\/pps-mutual-2021-profit-share-assignment-to-members\/","title":{"rendered":"PPS Mutual &#8211; 2021 Profit-Share Assignment to Members"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>PPS Mutual has assigned more than $4 million in profit share to the accounts of qualifying members in the first five years since its inaugural profit share assignments were made in 2017.<\/p>\n<p>The insurer says in a statement that it launched its Professionals Choice product in 2016, making its first profit share assignment in the following year and that it&#8217;s now announcing its fifth annual round of profit share rates to eligible members for the 2021 financial year.<\/p>\n<p>The statement notes that the rates determine how PPS Mutual members share in the profits of the insurance they buy.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_51579\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-51579\" style=\"width: 150px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/files\/2020\/08\/Michael-Pillmer-e1597620483722.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-51579\" src=\"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/files\/2020\/08\/Michael-Pillmer-e1597620483722.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"185\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-51579\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Michael Pillemer &#8230;every professional insured is a member which entitles them to share in the profits of the insurance that they buy&#8230;<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>For the 2021 financial year, the members of the mutual company will receive a Profit-Share assignment of six percent of premiums.<\/p>\n<p>It says members have also been assigned a further Profit-Share of 2.75 percent of opening balances (net of tax), &#8220;&#8230;providing strong portfolio growth in this low interest rate environment.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The company says this assignment follows the seven percent of premiums plus 4.5 per cent of opening balances for the 2020 financial year (see: <a href=\"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/2020\/10\/12\/pps-mutual-profit-share-assignment-to-members\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Profit Share Assignment to Members<\/a>.)<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8230; The Profit-Share pool has seen significant growth over the past four years&#8230;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It says that its Profit-Share pool has seen significant growth over the past four years, increasing eight-fold from $500,000 in 2018 to $4,200,000 in 2021.<\/p>\n<p>PPS Mutual Chief Executive, <strong>Michael Pillemer<\/strong>, says the company will continue making Profit-Share assignments each year \u201c\u2026to reflect the operational performance of the Benefit Fund including investment returns.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He adds that PPS Mutual is the only life insurance provider in Australia which currently offers life insurance products with a Profit-Share.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEvery professional insured is a member which entitles them to share in the profits of the insurance that they buy. And the amount assigned to them has grown year-on-year since we opened for business.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The statement notes that policies are only available through financial advisers who have been accredited by PPS Mutual.<\/p>\n<p>Pillemer says that one adviser group\u2019s members have Profit-Share Account balances totalling more than $595,000 as of 30th June 2021, and one adviser\u2019s members have Profit-Share Account balances of more than $270,000.<\/p>\n<p>Pillemer adds that PPS Mutual membership has continued to grow significantly from 797 in 2017 to 5,336 in 2021.<\/p>\n<p>PPS Mutual Members are required to retain their policies for 10 years to gain partial access to the Profit-Share funds. Full access is granted after 20 years or upon reaching age 65, and also on death, terminal illness, and certain other events.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PPS Mutual has assigned more than $4 million in profit share to the accounts of qualifying members in the first five years since its inaugural profit share assignments were made in 2017. The insurer says in a statement that it launched its Professionals Choice product in 2016, making its first profit share assignment in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":58228,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-58223","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-company-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58223","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=58223"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58223\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/58228"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58223"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58223"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58223"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}