All Posts Tagged With: "Insurance"
Diabetes and the cost of insurance
According to Diabetes Australia 65-80 percent of people with diabetes will die of coronary heart disease, and by 2010 DA estimates that the number of people affected by diabetes is expected to reach 1.8 million. This is scary stuff because a quick calculation suggests that potentially there is anything from about
24Nov2008 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
Refuelling the cash flow
We’ve just spent Sunday enjoying some corporate hospitality as guests at the 2008 Gold Coast Indy. It was a glorious spring day, all warm sunshine and light sea breezes.
Sitting opposite the pit lane, you couldn’t help but be impressed with the efficiency of the pit teams who operated like a well oiled machine. As [...]
Income protection for the boys
Do you how much Centrelink pays for sickness benefits? In case you’re curious, it’s just over $400 a week1 for a couple, not enough to even service the weekly mortgage repayment on an average mortgage, let alone feed a family or meet the lease payment on the fancy ute sitting in the driveway.
Most of us [...]
How many Australians die every day from heart disease?
By the time you logged on to your computer, searched for this blog site and read this article, one Australian would have died from heart disease. Do you know many Australians die every day from this disease? According to the Australian Heart Foundation, every ten minutes somebody in Australia dies from heart disease. In my [...]
13Oct2008 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
Perkonomics – funny word, interesting concept
I was having a bit of a web surf the other day and came across “perkonomics1″, described as perks and privileges given by a business to a customer, particularly those little perks that may give a client a bit of status or convenience.
Some of their examples included Lexus owners in Australia given the opportunity [...]
Is your weight fattening your premiums?
Did you know a third of our population is on a diet and another third of our population is trying to maintain their weight at any one time! [i]
Australians are spending bucketloads of money in an effort to lose weight. We all know the benefits of slimming and keeping active. But losing weight won’t just [...]
What happens when your insurance company goes broke?
We have had calls from clients asking questions about the financial security of life insurance companies in Australia after the recent issues with AIG in the USA.
The following Q & A has been kindly given to us by the Risk Store and is
Life Cover – You can never have enough
Last week a little noticed article appeared in the Courier mail about a private member’s bill being introduced into state parliament covering the removal of tax on certain life insurance products – this is not the main story, because as with all private member’s bills introduced into parliament it will be voted down.
6May2008 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
Defensive investing
Last week I went to Sydney for a conference on one of the areas of financial planning that I feel is so critical, that if you do not incorporate it into your portfolio, then there is no real point in taking any further steps – by that I mean incorporating personal risk insurance into your [...]
23Apr2008 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
You need to be very positive during a recession and make some tough decisions might need to be made , ...
Thanks for the stock information Paul and yes go the Maroons. Best wishes, Eddie 
An interesting view.