Direct life insurance, taken online from a TV ad, may be convenient - but can you rely on it to provide protection when needed? We look at a range of issues that influence people's decisions in relation to protecting their financial well-being from risks of ill health, accident - and even death; and highlight some of the reasons to beware direct insurance reliance that is not well founded. (As suggested in [...]
- but International offer probably too good to be true! In times where there has been severe impacts on the valuation of investment assets - and prolonged periods of low returns - offers of higher investment returns attract the attention of many, especially those who feel they have less time available to recover their losses. During the buoyant period after the post-GFC recovery had been under way for about a [...]
The following article is posted to examine what has made the property asset class so favoured in the Australian investment landscape, what makes a good decision about including property as part of your assets (investment portfolio); and where a prospective property buyer might turn for assistance in making a property acquisition. Is the Property asset class an Investment; or a Lifestyle holding? One of the significant changes coming over the next decade [...]