Wealth & Risk

personal insurance

  1. 9 March 2026

    Your insurance application is a health check in disguise

    When you apply for personal insurance, the application forms require you to answer some remarkably personal questions. Those questions exist because actuaries have spent decades researching what drive…

  2. 25 February 2022

    When Consumer is anti-consumer

    Consumer NZ is paving a road to hell with good intentions in the way it talks about personal insurance, and especially personal insurance advice. I'm a paying member and a fan — which is why it's so f…

  3. 10 October 2015

    Insurance is a foundational risk management tool. But like any tool, it doesn’t cover all contingencies

    I'm a huge advocate of most forms of insurance — general insurance for the house, contents, and car; personal insurance for life, income, total and permanent disability, and trauma. It's a foundationa…

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