This week I had a need to purchase travel insurance for an impending overseas trip. Easy enough I thought. I’ve done it all before. I’ll just go online, click a few buttons, get the credit card ready and pronto, I’ll …
It’s only natural to think that cutting out the middle man and obtaining your life insurance quickly over the phone or online would be cheaper than seeing a financial adviser, right? Apparently, not so. A research report from comparison site Life Insurance …
Insurance contracts are based on an implied duty of utmost good faith – everyone in financial services is aware of this. Put simply, it is a legal requirement for each party in an insurance contract to act towards each other …
The Financial Review has today reported that one in five customers have been sold ‘add-on’ insurance, such as CCI (consumer credit insurance) without their knowledge or consent.* Some people are even unaware that the insurance is entirely optional. This is …
The release of Rice Warner’s Underinsurance in Australia Report 2014 has highlighted that the typical default cover offered via superannuation is seriously deficient for some Australians.
Recently my 28 year-old son injured his shoulder in an accident. Unfortunately, due to the nature of his work, he will be unable to return to work until his shoulder has completely healed and this may be several months.
Today marks the first of Money101’s four new education stream launches to take place over the coming months.
