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Business and housing confidence with OCR at 2.5%
Since the start of this year, we’ve said that 2025 will be all about easing while everything settles down, setting us up for a recovery starting late 2025, through 26 and into 27.
Insurance and moral risk
While it’s great to have access to insurance facilities and indeed essential to many parts of our lives, there are guidelines we need to adhere to in order to protect our access to it.
Key Person Insurance
In business, people are often the most valuable asset.
Packaging insurance
As there are many facets to insurance it’s easy to get bewildered about what you need and don’t need and what’s even available out there. That’s where your licensed insurance adviser is qualified to provide the cut through you need.
Health Insurance – the good oil
Health insurance in New Zealand is designed to complement the public system, not replace it
Disability and Trauma Insurance – the serious stuff
While we go about insuring our lives and income so others are taken care of if something happens to us, there’s also our own needs to think of in the event we are no longer able to function as we once did.
Income protection, mortgage insurance and ACC
Life can be fickle, one day on top of the world and the next we’re laid up with an illness or injury that compromises our ability to earn, or our job itself redundant, and often not of our own making.
Life insurance, how much do we need?
No good financial plan is complete without a robust insurance package that takes care of things when we need it to.
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