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You’re young. You’re fit and healthy. Your career is starting to hit its straps. Chances are you haven’t started a family yet. You’re earning good money – good enough money to buy a nice, brand new car. You’ve taken out comprehensive insurance on the car because it’s the largest ass...

It would be no surprise to hear that most Australians don’t have the scale of accumulated savings required to protect them for an extended period of time in the event of a significant life event – i.e. one that prevented them from working for anything but a short period of time.

In September this year the Australian Treasury published a proposal paper outlining potential reforms to the sale of add-on insurance products. This is an issue that has attracted considerable attention in recent years from ASIC, the Productivity Commission and, most recently, the Hayne Royal Com...

Imagine getting ready for the rest of your life, just married, moved into the house of your dreams and you receive a medical diagnosis that stops everything.

Choosing the right type of insurance to cover for a potential medical emergency or incapacity can be challenging. If you’re under 30, have no dependant family or major obligations and are fit and healthy, the idea of taking out insurance against your future earnings has probably not even crosse...

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...