For the last six weeks, we have seen headlines in the business pages about the share markets around the world going down, then going up the next day, followed by a fall the following day. This is normal – the reason that the media is following these movements at the moment, is because of the…
This 4:25 video can be confronting, but I thought it would be worth sharing with our readers.
Heineken presents ‘Worlds Apart’ An Experiment. Can two strangers with opposing views prove that there’s more that unites than divides us?
Many New Zealanders have their Medical/Health insurance cover through Southern Cross Healthcare. Southern Cross Health Society (a charitable trust) has been around since 1961 and has traditionally provided Health Insurance through the workplace. There are a range of health insurance policies offered, from KiwiCare and RegularCare (which are the base plans) to Ultracare 400 which…
Sovereign sale to AIA In September 2017, Sovereign was sold to the large asian insurer AIA for $4.15 billion. Sovereign protects more than 646,000 New Zealanders. The important thing is that the terms and conditions of the policies are contractually governed by the policy documents and the sale does not affect any insurance cover that…
On the 25th October 2018, AMP announced that (subject to regulatory approvals), the business that had been the cornerstone of financial services in Australia and New Zealand for many years would exist no longer. As a result of a well known ‘portfolio review’ which has been going on for many months, AMP will be broken…
There are a lot of myths around Cancer – and what happens with cancer. These short videos made in Canada look at some the of the common myths circulated about what causes cancer: Cancer Mythbusters: Antiperspirant and breast cancer Cancer Mythbusters: When to get a PAP test Cancer Mythbusters: Tanning beds vs. the real…
I receive a number of email newsletters each day, but I thought this one was particularly useful, so have replicated it below. It is from Fortune magazine in their Cyber Saturday Edition: Good morning, Cyber Saturday readers. Several friends and professional contacts phoned me in a state of panic this summer. They said they had…
Following on from the project that we carried out in 2016 with our membership clients, it is important to continually be aware of the risks of your online self. The following checklist is from CERT NZ – the Government agency who provide you with up-to-date actionable advice on current threats and vulnerabilities. We subscribe to…
Although the development of the internet, email, smart phones, tablets and computers has brought many advantages, it has also created an entirely new criminal industry. The types and breadth of technological related scams is continually increasing and evolving. Every week, we read information about a new scam and every now and then hear of someone…
A client of ours in Wellington has been/is going through the exhausting and stressful process of claiming for the damage caused to his house by the Kaikoura earthquakes in November 2016. The latest event is that he wanted to make sure that his heritage home was properly insured, and wanted to increase the cover, in…
As someone who has lived down the end of a shared driveway for over 22 years, this article in the NZ Herald caught my attention. I have confirmed the situation with our Fire and General insurance broker, and they said: All non EQC cover natural disaster claims have an excess of $5000. Type of…
Fire and General insurance (that is insurance on houses, contents, vehicles, boats, professional indemnity, public liability insurance) is something that we don’t know a lot about here. We can answer any question that you have about insurance on you as a person (life, trauma, income protection, mortgage repayment, health insurance etc), but not about fire…