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A while ago the Sydney Morning Herald reported that a team of scientists at Boston University claimed to be able to predict - with 77 per cent accuracy - which...

Yes, laugh out loud... A study carried out in Norway a few years ago suggests adults with a sense of humour outlive those who don't find life funny. ...

Ok. Maybe its time for life insurance companies to start offering lower insurance premiums for vegetarians. Why? Because, like being a non-smoker, there is evidence scattered around that suggests vegetarians are healthier...

Mental health is one of those medical conditions that can be difficult to ascertain either the severity or likelihood of a relapse. The underlying cause of the health...

Why are articles about buying life insurance typically bad news? Take for example this article by Diana Clement a few weeks ago in the NZ Herald, which...

Websites are now plentiful offering ‘calculators’ that enable you to work out the amount of life insurance cover you need. But look more closely on some websites and you may find...

Ever tried to build a sandcastle on the beach with an incoming tide? No matter the walls or moats you place round the castle, we all know the tide eventually...

Churn continues to pester the life insurance industry.  Insurance churning is the practice of cancelling an existing life insurance policy placed for a client with one Insurer and re-writing that some...

An insurance joker once professed, “Insurance employees don’t need titles on their business cards; white shirts actuarial, blue shirts marketing, black shirts underwriting”. Underwriters are viewed as the morgue of...

Life insurance can be murder… People buy life insurance, why? So that if they die unexpectedly, they’ll leave loved ones a bucket of money to keep them going. It’s...

I read with interest an article by Des Morgan in ScoopIt, "Start-Up Online Life Insurance Firm Breaks The Commission Mold". Farmers seeking to protect their revenue in the event of illness...

Insightful question received from a reader... Q I would love to buy life insurance but I have one concern. If insurers cover you until you are 100 years old, there’s a 100%...

Movember is an annual, month-long celebration of the moustache, highlighting men’s health issues, specifically prostate cancer and depression in men. Who can we blame for this initiative? Look no further than the...

According to this report, the Rapture which failed to take place on 21 May 2011 as predicted, will now take place today (21 Oct 2011). ...

Do you exercise for at least 15 mins per day?? Yes? Then (in a perfect world obviously) you should be entitled to a 14% discount on your life insurance premiums!! A research study...

It would be remiss of me not to write an article about the Rugby World Cup, and life insurance. How could I let such an opportune moment slide by...

Just when you find out that relaxing is good for your health, you find out that ‘sitting’ is not one of the ways to do it. You can read all about...

This is a good one... James Hacker was a rich old man dying from a rare disease. On his deathbed, he called for his doctor, his preacher and his life insurance broker: "I...

“Nothing?” Well that’s my answer… but of course, that’s just me because I’m probably naive. However, insurance adviser Andrew Smith claims that the six steps to ‘get a girl’...

September is Cervical Screening Awareness Month – the aim of which is to raise awareness about the benefits of cervical screening. Why is cervical screening important to the world of life...

Today is Daffodil Day. Daffodil Day is about raising the public’s awareness of Cancer and donating to the Cancer Society. For us life insurance guys, cancer is always top...

Following all the recent New Zealand media hype surrounding the recent banning of Kronic it seems there are a lot of Kiwi’s who don’t mind the occasional joint –...

A letter received by Pinnacle Life from Lynn... Dear Sir This letter is to advise you of the great service we received by your staff when it was decided after hearing you...

We like quotes. Being in the life insurance business, some quotes tend to catch your eye more than others, like this one... "There's no point taking life seriously... nobody...