Month: July 2016

Tom Garcia wrote this post on LinkedIn discussing the current model of providing financial advice in Australia and the flaws it faces. Garcia says “There are two

I just listened to this great podcast which carries the provocative title “real financial advisers should always have an opinion” – although I might take

There is a great deal of debate about tax treatment of Income Protection. Given the importance of this product as society progressively shifts towards greater

One of the possible outcomes of the proposed changes to the Financial Advisers Act is an increase in average business size. In an article by Jenée

The FMA has this new page of advice to consumers on replacement. Link. The first thing to note is that this is very ‘pro-advice’. The premise

In this article by Rob Stock he discusses the review of insurance policies by banks in New Zealand after recent scandal involving the Commonwealth Bank of Australia.  Quality

Quotemonster already helps more than 3,700 advisers to do price comparisons on the most popular insurance products in the market – completely free. Out of them

I’ve recently been sent a great piece from Gen Re on heart attack definitions. At the start of what is a pretty through review of

For those advisers that like the idea of a lower, non-taxable, income protection benefit the potential for a review of the taxation of income protection

Emma Conyngham, a Kiwi breast cancer survivor has come up with a unique product, ‘NiceNips’ for women after having a mastectomy. Click here to see what it