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".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.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.