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Everyone’s experienced it – speaking to someone on the phone or at the bank about a finance product and the next thing you’re being inundated with recommendations for additional products, particularly insurance products. You probably want to say no, the salesperson is pushy and persuasive a...

For most of us, whether we’re paying a mortgage or rent, servicing debt or supporting a family, our financial stability depends on our ability to go to work.

Unfortunately, things don’t always go according to plan. If illness or an accident interrupts your ability to work, income prote...

In an online world, getting access to insurance products couldn’t be easier. Simply hop on the net, maybe check out some of the comparison websites, choose an insurer and a policy and away you go. But with something as important as income protection insurance, how do you really know that you ar...

Income Protection Insurance is not usually a consideration for most young people. However, there are several arguments to be made for taking out an income protection policy even if you are younger – the most significant advantage being the price of premiums.

Recruiting and retaining good talent is increasingly challenging, particularly with expectations of millennial and Gen Y employees so different to their Gen X and Baby Boomer predecessors. With unemployment levels low and greater mobility of younger employees, strategies to attract and keep quali...

For many Australians, the cost of income protection insurance is a barrier to taking it out – it is estimated that only about one third of working Australians hold income protection insurance outside their superannuation. Leaving aside the fact that many Australians are not even aware of what i...

It is estimated that the average Australian professional salary earner’s accumulated post-tax earnings between ages 25 and 60, expressed in today’s dollars, is somewhere between $3 million and $4 million. Compared to average capital city house values of between $450,000 and $900,000 (dependin...