Life Insurance Blog

Mental Health is an area where it pays to check your life insurance policy carefully. Every provider is different, which can make comparisons confusing. You may have heard that insurers are out to 'trick you' and make sure that they won't have to pay out, but they're not that devious or mean spirited – at least Pinnacle Life isn’t anyway!

Yay summer holidays and Christmas are almost here. We had high hopes that 2021 would be better than 2020, and it was so good for most of it. Shame about the last few months, but we can still finish strong and get off to a great start in 2022!

With another lockdown in place for the near future and vaccines gaining momentum, we thought it was time to share our answers to some of the questions we're getting from customers about Life Insurance, Covid-19 and vaccines. And to reassure you that locked down or not, vaccinated or not, we’re here to support you and take care of your life insurance.

Research recently published by the Financial Services Council indicates an increase in how financial issues are affecting our wellbeing. Worryingly, the trend indicates that financial issues are affecting our whole well-being not just our mental health.

If you've got school-age kids, you'll be hitting the final countdown for school to go back. Some of us love the change of pace school holidays bring while for some of us the next week (or so) can't go by fast enough. Whichever group you're in, you'll be checking off stationery items, school uniforms, school bags and lunchboxes. You'll be thinking about schedules and school fees, and you'll probably be thinking about paying for it all.

CFFC (Commission for Financial Capability) surveyed 3132 New Zealanders between January to June 2020. They used questions from an OECD toolkit to measure understanding of financial concepts such as interest, inflation, and risk diversification. Only 22% of all respondents answered all questions correctly, and only half as many women as men answered all questions correctly.