Life Insurance Policy News
Named and unashamed
Wednesday March 30, 2011
Smaller financial providers tend to have more disputes in proportion to their size than larger businesses.Labor's long way back starts with its heartland
Sunday March 27, 2011
DURING a door-knock in Balmain last week supporters of Verity Firth found themselves face-to-face with an ALP diehard who is so disillusioned with the party that she tried to close the door in their faces.Hollywood turns its gaze to the new morality of corporate capitalism
Monday March 21, 2011
Vice exposed in films on the financial crisis.In need of serious cover?
Wednesday March 16, 2011
Though often overlooked, trauma insurance can take the financial pressure off your family in an emergency.Japan impact rattles investors
Monday March 14, 2011
THE biggest earthquake in Japan's history left the global equities and insurance markets reeling as experts spent the weekend grappling with the financial impact on the world's third-biggest economy and the knock-on effects to the global recovery.Storm over, but it's still heavy going
Saturday March 12, 2011
The road to stronger returns is caught in policy headwinds, writes John Collett.Safeguard earning power
Wednesday March 9, 2011
In part two of our guide to insurance, Harriet Alexander looks at how to protect your income.$35bn of state funds 'put at risk'
Tuesday March 8, 2011
MAJOR malfunctions in financial software put at "significant risk" billions of dollars of public savings managed by the state government's main investment arm, according to documents leaked to The Age.Senior executive sought special payout for partner
Tuesday March 8, 2011
ONE of Victoria's highest-paid government employees has come under fire after he sought a special retrenchment payout for a colleague with whom he had an intimate relationship.State investment arm to be reviewed after $500m loss
Thursday March 3, 2011
THE Baillieu government has ordered a review of every aspect of the state's investment arm, including whether it holds more dud assets, after Treasurer Kim Wells blamed the former government for "a massive cover-up" of a $500 million loss on a Gold Coast-based "death fund".State sinks $500m on dud scheme
Wednesday March 2, 2011
THE investment arm of the state government has lost about half a billion dollars in a disastrous scheme that involved punting on the life expectancy of elderly Americans.Our final gift to loved ones
Wednesday March 2, 2011
Life cover comes under the magnifying glass in the first of our three-part series on insurance.Health premiums on way up again
Saturday February 26, 2011
FAMILY health insurance premiums are to rise by an average of $2.88 a week after intense negotiations in which one health fund has rejected a government demand to reduce its proposed increase.Look who's playing Henny Penny card
Saturday February 26, 2011
I BLAME the miners. Having proved how easily financial muscle, self-interest and sheer propaganda can overturn government policy (and come close to overturning government), you can't blame other interest groups for thinking government policy is only for real if those affected are too lily-livered to do anything about it.Healthcare's worthy goal, rotten base
Monday February 21, 2011
The private health rebate is a $5bn elephant that will stomp on reform.ASK NOEL
Saturday February 19, 2011
WE run our own self-managed super fund but for years have used AMP for our life insurance. We are told we should pay for this through our SMSF but we do our own direct investing and as such don't have any fund managers who would offer this. Is there another way to pay for life insurance through our SMSF?A long, hard look inside our jails would benefit all of us
Friday February 4, 2011
One of the most telling commentaries on all that is wrong with prisons was made recently by American law professor David Cole. "We commit offenders to such places precisely so we will not have to pay attention to them," he wrote in an article for the New York Review of Books.The indigestion attack that could cost AMP $1.9b
Monday January 31, 2011
The huge bout of indigestion AMP and AXA SA may face after swallowing AXA has become more evident.Man who faked his death jailed
Saturday January 29, 2011
A MAN who faked his death to dodge criminal charges, then tried to claim his life insurance, has been sentenced to a maximum 23 months in jail.movies
Monday September 7, 2009
The Full Monty
(1997), Ten, 8.30pm
The Whole Nine Yards
(2000), Nine, 9.45pm
Nine Months
(1995), Seven, noon