The nation’s health funds lodged their premium increase proposals last week to the Federal Government. Timely then that a survey by Roy Morgan out this week confirms satisfaction with private health insurers has declined to 2013 levels. Results show more than 10 per cent of Australians plan to leave their funds in the next 12 months and are shopping around. Lucy Cormack writing in the Age th... read more>

This week we have 5 copies of the book Blueprint to Wealth by Finance Expert Gary Stone, and 10 doubles passes (valued at $40 each) to see the film MAHANA. (Only showing in Melbourne and Sydney). Gary Stone is a top market researcher and investor and his new book is called Blueprint to Wealth, Financial Freedom in 15 Minutes A Week. Gary has given us 5 copies to giveaway.  Secondly, Rose... read more>

Hold on to your hats (and your insurance policies), the insurance business is about to get a whole lot more interesting. Research released this week by the Actuaries Institute has found that there has been more gathering of data on people in the past two years than at any other time in human history…think about that! The ground-breaking research on big data and its impact on the insurance... read more>

I recently had a call from a girlfriend excitedly sharing that the home I had lived in for my formative teenage years was up for sale. A wave of nostalgia came over me..good and sad feelings. This was the home I had lived in from 14-24 and a lot had happened in that time. I had celebrated my 16th birthday party there and my 21st. My father had become ill and passed away in that time and I had e... read more>

We swim in an unhelpful and unappetising soup of stereotypes dividing and discriminating between older and younger workers. But there’s increasing evidence all is not what it seems and the ages might have far more in common in their ways of working than even they thought. So here’s a credible survey from the Havard Business Review which over 50s might pin up at work or send to prospectiv... read more>