Latest / She's On The Money / ‘Is The Cover In Your Super Enough?’ And Other Quickfire Insurance Questions With Skye Wealth
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- 0:00Speaker 1: My name's Tatasha Bamblet. I'm a proud First Nations woman
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- 0:32Speaker 1: and respect all that you see. She's on the Money
- 0:35Speaker 1: podcast acknowledges culture, country, community and connections, bringing you the tools,
- 0:42Speaker 1: knowledge and resources for you to thrive.
- 0:45Speaker 2: She's on the Money. She's on the Money.
- 0:50Speaker 3: Hello friends, and welcome to She's on the Money, the
- 0:54Speaker 3: podcast that helps you build a financial future that has
- 0:57Speaker 3: your back.
- 0:58Speaker 4: Now, let's be very honest.
- 1:01Speaker 3: If you weren't able to work for a few months,
- 1:03Speaker 3: would you have enough in your savings to keep the
- 1:05Speaker 3: lights on, keep fridge filled, and your bills paid? What
- 1:10Speaker 3: if suddenly you couldn't work full time or had to
- 1:13Speaker 3: provide ongoing care for a loved one going through a
- 1:15Speaker 3: similar situation for some of you.
- 1:18Speaker 4: Unfortunately, this is not actually hypothetical.
- 1:21Speaker 3: We've heard from a number of you who are affected
- 1:24Speaker 3: by health conditions and life events that have forced you
- 1:27Speaker 3: to take some time off work or roll back your
- 1:29Speaker 3: commitments altogether. And while a lot of you have had
- 1:32Speaker 3: insurance money win, many of you experienced the very rude
- 1:37Speaker 3: awakening of not having enough cover to see you through.
- 1:40Speaker 3: Today's episode is all about insurance and making sure that
- 1:44Speaker 3: you've got a safety net no matter what happens, and
- 1:47Speaker 3: we'll get into it right after this break. Hello, my friends,
- 1:54Speaker 3: you've probably gathered it's Victoria divine. But with me is
- 1:59Speaker 3: my very good friend Phil. He's the CEO of sky Wealth,
- 2:02Speaker 3: Phil Thompson, Welcome back to the show.
- 2:05Speaker 5: Hello, thanks for having me.
- 2:06Speaker 4: I'm not gonna lie.
- 2:08Speaker 3: I didn't think that when we had you on our
- 2:10Speaker 3: show for the very first time, we would have people say,
- 2:13Speaker 3: please get back the white man who talks about insurance.
- 2:16Speaker 4: But here we are.
- 2:17Speaker 5: That's right, a mainstay of Shoes on the Money.
- 2:19Speaker 3: Yeah, you like kind of becoming part of the furniture,
- 2:22Speaker 3: and like we talk about you on the show all
- 2:24Speaker 3: the time, would be like, oh well, Phil would say,
- 2:26Speaker 3: our well, Phil's company, our well feels team.
- 2:29Speaker 5: Like we're in the cop for me? Maybe is that
- 2:32Speaker 5: is that fair?
- 2:33Speaker 3: I like it? But I've got you back not just
- 2:35Speaker 3: because we like you. We've got you back to help
- 2:37Speaker 3: answer some of our communities insurance questions. So today we
- 2:41Speaker 3: are going to discuss what kind of color you might
- 2:44Speaker 3: consider depending on your lifestyle and your financial goals. We're
- 2:48Speaker 3: also going to be pulling apart two examples, so we've
- 2:51Speaker 3: got two profiles to compare what it might actually look
- 2:54Speaker 3: like to be overinsurit versus under and the consequences of
- 2:59Speaker 3: both of these situations. Phil, I feel like everyone kind
- 3:02Speaker 3: of leans in and goes, well, what's the problem with
- 3:04Speaker 3: being over insured? But there is a problem with it,
- 3:07Speaker 3: isn't it.
- 3:08Speaker 5: It costs money.
- 3:09Speaker 4: It costs a lot of money.
- 3:10Speaker 3: So I'm very excited for this conversation, not because it's
- 3:13Speaker 3: an exciting conversation, but I hope that it means that
- 3:17Speaker 3: people get their stuff together and actually just up their
- 3:21Speaker 3: insurances or change their insurances. Which is kind of hypocritical
- 3:25Speaker 3: of me because what have you been chasing me for?
- 3:27Speaker 5: I send you an email probably once every three weeks,
- 3:30Speaker 5: and I've previously just emailed you. Now I'm copying Steve
- 3:34Speaker 5: in so because I know Steve will help you get
- 3:37Speaker 5: that life at me in under control. As well.
- 3:39Speaker 3: The way I laughed at the way you said that
- 3:41Speaker 3: as well, you were like, Steve, I'm emailing you because
- 3:44Speaker 3: your wife isn't doing what she said she was going to.
- 3:47Speaker 4: And I was like, why are you dubbing on me?
- 3:49Speaker 5: I didn't want Steve to feel like I was following
- 3:52Speaker 5: him up because you told me that. He was like, Victoria,
- 3:56Speaker 5: we're going to get it.
- 3:56Speaker 3: She should have been a microactive feminism from your behalf
- 3:59Speaker 3: being like, oh, I always chase up the man on
- 4:01Speaker 3: life Admin things like that's what it should have been,
- 4:04Speaker 3: not you, Actually, Victoria, I was throwing you under your
- 4:07Speaker 3: bus so that your husband would chase you.
- 4:10Speaker 5: Hey, let me just say. I also follow it up
- 4:12Speaker 5: with I'm happy to come over and help you guys
- 4:15Speaker 5: fill out these forms. You just got to fill it out.
- 4:17Speaker 1: Let's go.
- 4:18Speaker 2: I know.
- 4:19Speaker 3: So, I think that's a very good example of the
- 4:21Speaker 3: plumber who has a leaky tap, because I'll tell you
- 4:24Speaker 3: to do it, but don't do as I do, do
- 4:26Speaker 3: as I say. Right, So today our community has the flaw,
- 4:30Speaker 3: not victoria, and they actually have a bunch of questions
- 4:33Speaker 3: on the types of cover that they might need or
- 4:35Speaker 3: the types of cover that they might need to revisit.
- 4:37Speaker 4: Im me, because you deal with.
- 4:40Speaker 3: Personal insurances literally date in day out, when are people
- 4:44Speaker 3: most likely going to need to revisit what personal insurance
- 4:48Speaker 3: as they hold?
- 4:49Speaker 5: Yeah, most of the life stages that trigger an idea
- 4:52Speaker 5: of hey we need to think about this is babies
- 4:54Speaker 5: as you've just gone through, yeah multiple times. Now, buying
- 4:59Speaker 5: a house or grading or downgrading houses is a really
- 5:02Speaker 5: good trigger event. But really starting a full time job
- 5:05Speaker 5: once you're fully reliant on your income is a really
- 5:07Speaker 5: good idea to think, Actually, do I need to have
- 5:10Speaker 5: income protection? Is this a good time to get it
- 5:12Speaker 5: sorted out? So they're the kind of three big trigger points.
- 5:15Speaker 5: But then changing careers, what does that look like? Do
- 5:17Speaker 5: I need to bring my cover down? Do I need
- 5:19Speaker 5: to change the occupation because I'm in lower risk occupation.
- 5:23Speaker 5: They're the type of triggered points that is a great
- 5:25Speaker 5: time to just go Okay, personal insurance, let's get that
- 5:28Speaker 5: life had been done.
- 5:29Speaker 3: Yeah, And I feel like that could be a get
- 5:32Speaker 3: out of jail free card for some people listening, because
- 5:35Speaker 3: they'll be like, well, I don't have a significant life
- 5:37Speaker 3: event happening right now.
- 5:39Speaker 4: And for the people who maybe are thinking.
- 5:40Speaker 3: Well, that's not for me, Phil, you and I both
- 5:43Speaker 3: know that those life events are just the triggers for
- 5:47Speaker 3: people to go, oh, I should get my stuff together.
- 5:50Speaker 3: But when should people really be looking at their personal insurances,
- 5:53Speaker 3: not just during life changes, right.
- 5:55Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean today. If that's the assumption that you've
- 5:58Speaker 5: got it all set up properly and let's go and revisit.
- 6:01Speaker 5: But if you don't have it set up, you know,
- 6:04Speaker 5: I give a lecture to all our associates in the
- 6:06Speaker 5: office almost every day about making sure they've got insurance
- 6:08Speaker 5: set up. And it's really important to make sure you've
- 6:11Speaker 5: got the foundation set Everyone likes talking about investing wealth creation,
- 6:15Speaker 5: how we're going to get ahead, or how we're going
- 6:16Speaker 5: to manage the cost of living. You know, it's really
- 6:19Speaker 5: important to think about the downside impact of if something
- 6:22Speaker 5: was to happen. Do we have the safety net there
- 6:24Speaker 5: or do we just rely on government support or ndis
- 6:28Speaker 5: what does that look like? Or can we building our
- 6:31Speaker 5: own safety nets using insurance?
- 6:32Speaker 3: Yeah, And I feel like I jump up and down
- 6:34Speaker 3: about it all the time. Just get it done, Get
- 6:37Speaker 3: it done today. The younger you are, the easier it's
- 6:40Speaker 3: going to be, the better it's going to be in
- 6:42Speaker 3: terms of outcomes, like, yes, you might already have experienced
- 6:45Speaker 3: a significant health event, but we can work around that.
- 6:49Speaker 3: And I think so many people go, oh, I'm probably
- 6:51Speaker 3: not going to be improved for like, you know, income protection,
- 6:54Speaker 3: because I've heard so much about mental health and you know,
- 6:58Speaker 3: my friend got declined because of mental health. It's like,
- 7:00Speaker 3: go see an actual insurance advisor and talk to them,
- 7:04Speaker 3: because we can get a mental health exclusion so that
- 7:06Speaker 3: every other circumstance is covered. And yes, you might have
- 7:09Speaker 3: an exclusion on one thing, but don't throw the baby
- 7:11Speaker 3: out with bath water. Like it just I feel like
- 7:14Speaker 3: so many times I'm hearing recently just blanket statements of
- 7:18Speaker 3: like oh, well, I'd get declined because of my knee,
- 7:21Speaker 3: and it's like, but you're going to compromise the rest
- 7:25Speaker 3: of your entire body and your financial future because you
- 7:28Speaker 3: would only want to claim on your knee.
- 7:30Speaker 5: And also things like oh, I went to my superfund
- 7:32Speaker 5: and then got declined. Well, you know, that's one insurance
- 7:35Speaker 5: company that your super funds are using, and they have.
- 7:37Speaker 3: Group insurance, and therefore they have group blanket statements that
- 7:41Speaker 3: they throw around to go, oh, nap can't be bothered
- 7:44Speaker 3: with that because they don't have the nuance and the
- 7:46Speaker 3: depth of proper underwriting. And that's not saying that it's
- 7:49Speaker 3: bad insurance. It just means if you do have an exclusion,
- 7:53Speaker 3: they're likely to say no because that's how they keep
- 7:55Speaker 3: their fees low.
- 7:56Speaker 5: And this is why, you know, it was a great
- 7:58Speaker 5: conversation I had just yesterday with a new client and
- 8:01Speaker 5: they said, I went online and I tried to do it.
- 8:03Speaker 5: Our occupation's pretty risky. They work in mining, can you know?
- 8:07Speaker 5: And we just got quotes online and we can't get
- 8:09Speaker 5: any cover. And so instead of thinking, well that's a
- 8:12Speaker 5: blanket rule, we can't get any cover, they went and
- 8:15Speaker 5: booked in a phone call with us and said, hey,
- 8:17Speaker 5: is there anything you can do? And I just asked
- 8:19Speaker 5: a few questions about what they do for work exactly
- 8:22Speaker 5: is it are you going underground? Is it an open
- 8:23Speaker 5: up mine? Or they're all the nuances that you know,
- 8:26Speaker 5: working with a professional, we can go actually, we can
- 8:28Speaker 5: get cover. There will be some limitations, but there's not
- 8:31Speaker 5: a blanket statement. So I mean that was great for
- 8:33Speaker 5: that client to then sure do some research online, but
- 8:36Speaker 5: then escalate it to a professional and go okay, I
- 8:38Speaker 5: need help.
- 8:39Speaker 3: Yeah, And I've seen this in our community a lot
- 8:42Speaker 3: as well, where maybe they have seen some advertising for
- 8:45Speaker 3: an insurance company and so they're like, oh, that that
- 8:48Speaker 3: insurance company sounds great, and then they go on the
- 8:50Speaker 3: website and realize that they don't meet the criteria. Well,
- 8:53Speaker 3: the criteria for different insurers is different everywhere, and so
- 8:57Speaker 3: this person would have come to you and been like,
- 8:58Speaker 3: I work in mining, and imediately you might have gone, oh,
- 9:02Speaker 3: Insurer A is definitely not going to cover it, but
- 9:04Speaker 3: I'm going to call the BDM at insurer B and
- 9:06Speaker 3: just quickly check what their policy is. And that's where
- 9:09Speaker 3: you're asking the nuanced questions of like do you go
- 9:11Speaker 3: underground or is it open cup?
- 9:12Speaker 4: What does this look like?
- 9:13Speaker 3: Because then you go, okay, well, insurre B, no, they're
- 9:16Speaker 3: not going to be the right fit. Insurer C though
- 9:18Speaker 3: slightly more expensive, but we're going to get the cover
- 9:21Speaker 3: and there's no exclusions like that's the messaging or that's
- 9:25Speaker 3: like the knowledge that only people doing it day in,
- 9:29Speaker 3: day out are going to have, because unless you're going
- 9:31Speaker 3: to deep dive into advisor only policies that you already
- 9:35Speaker 3: can't access on your own and read all of the
- 9:37Speaker 3: pds in terms and conditions and have a relationship with
- 9:39Speaker 3: a BDM who goes, oh, so they just sit in
- 9:42Speaker 3: an office filt. Yeah, let me let me personally take
- 9:44Speaker 3: their application and see that through to the underwriter.
- 9:47Speaker 4: You can't do that yourself. You need a fill in
- 9:50Speaker 4: your life.
- 9:50Speaker 5: And another example is yesterday as well, like we took
- 9:54Speaker 5: a client scenario. They're taking three months off to study
- 9:57Speaker 5: full time.
- 9:57Speaker 4: It must be nice.
- 9:58Speaker 5: They've been doing their job for ten years and they're
- 10:00Speaker 5: taking three months off working one day a week paid work.
- 10:03Speaker 5: Every underwriter said, no, we won't get offer them income protection.
- 10:06Speaker 5: So I just pick up the phone and I talked
- 10:08Speaker 5: to my little team like, that's ridiculous, we can get
- 10:11Speaker 5: this person cover picked up the phone of the underwrite
- 10:13Speaker 5: and said, I want to place this policy with you
- 10:15Speaker 5: because overarching, you know, after that three month period, you're
- 10:18Speaker 5: the best place to do it. They've been doing it
- 10:20Speaker 5: for ten years. They're going to be doing it again
- 10:23Speaker 5: for probably ten years after that. This isn't a mid
- 10:26Speaker 5: twenty year old just kind of you know, flutting around
- 10:28Speaker 5: and deciding what they want to do in life. They're
- 10:30Speaker 5: doing a master's degree.
- 10:31Speaker 3: It's also so they can can knuckle down even further
- 10:34Speaker 3: into that specific career, like I really don't think I'm
- 10:37Speaker 3: not committed here, and so.
- 10:38Speaker 5: The underwriter was like, oh, well it's a no, but
- 10:40Speaker 5: I'll get a second opinion. I was like, as you should, yeah, yeah,
- 10:43Speaker 5: let's get a second opinion. An underwriter came back, Yeah,
- 10:45Speaker 5: no ways, as long as they're going back to the
- 10:47Speaker 5: same role, we can place the cover. So things like that,
- 10:50Speaker 5: just having that relationship with an underwriter to go, hey,
- 10:53Speaker 5: we can get this across the line. For these reasons
- 10:55Speaker 5: is the conversations we do as advisors all day every day.
- 10:58Speaker 3: Yeah, And I mean, I'm sick of up with bdms
- 11:01Speaker 3: because I used to be in the financial advice space.
- 11:04Speaker 3: I'm sick of catching up with bdms and them being like, oh, hey,
- 11:07Speaker 3: how are you what have you been doing? And I'll
- 11:08Speaker 3: be like, oh, I'm doing an app with Field next
- 11:09Speaker 3: week and they go, I love Phil sick of hearing it,
- 11:13Speaker 3: sick of it, sick of it feels great, Like can't
- 11:15Speaker 3: believe he just does insurances like that would do my
- 11:18Speaker 3: head in, But I adore him.
- 11:20Speaker 4: Yeah, everyone does. So thank you for taking it for
- 11:23Speaker 4: the team.
- 11:24Speaker 3: Our community obviously adore you as well, and they actually
- 11:27Speaker 3: had a lot of questions. I put on our Instagram
- 11:29Speaker 3: stories that you were coming in and they bombarded me.
- 11:32Speaker 3: So I've collated a few. Can we dive straight in?
- 11:35Speaker 4: Let's go all right, and we're going.
- 11:37Speaker 3: To try and be like a little bit quick fire
- 11:39Speaker 3: with this because I want to spend as much time
- 11:41Speaker 3: as possible on your case studies, because that's like the grit, right,
- 11:45Speaker 3: But is the insurance in your superannuation enough?
- 11:49Speaker 2: Ah?
- 11:51Speaker 5: Maybe? Like really, there are limitations with cover within super.
- 11:55Speaker 5: If you're not gamefully employed at the time you want
- 11:57Speaker 5: to claim on in competition, you can't get covered well
- 11:59Speaker 5: and advance policy you will get paid out, So there
- 12:03Speaker 5: is some cover, but often most people won't have enough
- 12:06Speaker 5: cover anywhere near enough cover, and some of the case
- 12:08Speaker 5: studies will look at like the default level of covers,
- 12:10Speaker 5: you know, several hundred thousand dollars. If that so high level,
- 12:14Speaker 5: you can get an advisor to set up a proper
- 12:17Speaker 5: policy for you and get your super fun to pay
- 12:18Speaker 5: for it, so you may as well do it that way.
- 12:20Speaker 4: That's how I do it. I mean, mine needs to
- 12:22Speaker 4: be increased, but that is.
- 12:23Speaker 5: How when you get around to do it, that's how
- 12:25Speaker 5: you will do Yep, yep.
- 12:27Speaker 4: I hate this episode all I love it.
- 12:29Speaker 5: I love it. Not very often do you self shame.
- 12:33Speaker 3: I have to be transparent with my community. I can't
- 12:35Speaker 3: have you on and be like, oh my god, you
- 12:36Speaker 3: should do this. I always do this and then be
- 12:39Speaker 3: like yeah it feel has been chasing me for that.
- 12:41Speaker 3: But also do you know I have recorded probably like
- 12:43Speaker 3: three money diaries recently, and the three diarists have been
- 12:47Speaker 3: like because I ask. Now, I'm like, have you got
- 12:49Speaker 3: your insurances sorted?
- 12:50Speaker 4: They're like yes.
- 12:51Speaker 3: I heard last week that one of the diarists ghosted
- 12:54Speaker 3: sky Wealth and that's me too, And now I'm going
- 12:56Speaker 3: to call them again.
- 12:57Speaker 4: And I was like, you call Phil Hiss used to
- 12:59Speaker 4: being ghostood?
- 12:59Speaker 5: I did that? Like, just be very normal. It's very normal.
- 13:04Speaker 5: This is the thing, like insurance is never urgent. It's
- 13:07Speaker 5: just so important, it's.
- 13:08Speaker 3: Not no, do you know what it is like having
- 13:12Speaker 3: spoken to a lot of people who have said, oh,
- 13:15Speaker 3: I engaged in the process, and then I backtracked, like
- 13:18Speaker 3: it's just quite confronting having these conversations about your personal health,
- 13:23Speaker 3: what happens if you die, what happens to my partner,
- 13:26Speaker 3: what happens to my assets? Like it's kind of scary.
- 13:30Speaker 3: But then also it's not cheap. And yes, it is
- 13:33Speaker 3: going to come out of your super most of the time,
- 13:35Speaker 3: and it can be structured really well. But you're like, wow,
- 13:38Speaker 3: that's like a thousand dollars or it's a bit more.
- 13:40Speaker 3: Not the advice like feels really reasonably priced, don't worry,
- 13:43Speaker 3: but like you do still have to pay for the insurance.
- 13:45Speaker 3: And I think a lot of us go, yeah, I
- 13:47Speaker 3: want to get my stuff sorted. I want to get
- 13:48Speaker 3: my stuff sorted, and then you kind of just see
- 13:50Speaker 3: the receipt and you're like, oh, maybe next week, but
- 13:54Speaker 3: it is really important to revisit it. So Phil another question,
- 13:58Speaker 3: if I've ghosted you, are you get to be mad
- 14:00Speaker 3: and bitter when I come back.
- 14:02Speaker 5: No, not at all.
- 14:04Speaker 1: For us.
- 14:05Speaker 5: We understand insurance is never that urgent for individuals.
- 14:08Speaker 4: Happens to get business across the board, and so yeah.
- 14:12Speaker 5: I mean, we definitely don't get mad at the end
- 14:14Speaker 5: of the day our job and you just get even
- 14:17Speaker 5: the core purpose of our job, and like our mission
- 14:22Speaker 5: at skuy is to help every day Shanes access good,
- 14:26Speaker 5: affordable advice. That's what we want to do. And what
- 14:29Speaker 5: we want to do is we want to educate everyone
- 14:31Speaker 5: who comes and works with us, and we want to
- 14:33Speaker 5: empower them to make the decision that's right for them.
- 14:36Speaker 5: And so if that decision is an informed decision not
- 14:38Speaker 5: to take our cover, happy days, that's not an issue
- 14:41Speaker 5: at all. Now I disagree with it. I think you
- 14:44Speaker 5: should have cover, but that's not my decision because I
- 14:46Speaker 5: don't pay your premiums. But as long as there's an
- 14:48Speaker 5: informed decision to make a choice and someone's made that choice,
- 14:52Speaker 5: then we don't know high feelings at all from our own.
- 14:54Speaker 4: That is literally the premise.
- 14:56Speaker 3: If she's on the money, and I have so many
- 14:57Speaker 3: people say to me, oh my god, Victoria, I wouldn't
- 14:59Speaker 3: want to tell you what my spending habits are there
- 15:01Speaker 3: so bad, And I'm like, I couldn't care less, Like
- 15:05Speaker 3: I care that you were given the information so that
- 15:08Speaker 3: you could make an informed decision.
- 15:10Speaker 4: How you smaed it. I don't care, babe.
- 15:11Speaker 3: Go buy another handbag, Go buy some shoes, build up
- 15:15Speaker 3: your emergency fund. Obviously, I'm going to have a preference
- 15:18Speaker 3: because I want you to be financially secure. But if
- 15:21Speaker 3: I've given you every single tool and resource and done
- 15:23Speaker 3: everything within my ability to put on the table basically
- 15:26Speaker 3: on a silver platter, education that I think you deserve
- 15:30Speaker 3: at a bare minimum, and then you choose the life
- 15:32Speaker 3: you want to live, amazing, happy days, Happy days because
- 15:35Speaker 3: you made an informed decision, and that's all I can
- 15:38Speaker 3: ask of you. But if you didn't know that was there,
- 15:40Speaker 3: and then all of a sudden you needed insurance and
- 15:43Speaker 3: you're like, damn, I wish that i'd you know, I
- 15:46Speaker 3: wish i'd known. That's where I fail. But if I
- 15:49Speaker 3: taught you and then you chose not to and then
- 15:51Speaker 3: you regret it, by ba's on you exactly. That's actually
- 15:54Speaker 3: not part of my decision making process. One question I
- 15:57Speaker 3: found interesting was what percentage of your income should you
- 16:01Speaker 3: be spending on insurances?
- 16:03Speaker 5: Well, that's a great question. So everyone's different. So if
- 16:05Speaker 5: you're a builder and you're working on a work site
- 16:08Speaker 5: and your mid fifties, your percentage of your income going
- 16:11Speaker 5: towards insurance is going to be much higher because the
- 16:13Speaker 5: higher risk factors. If you're an office worker and earning
- 16:17Speaker 5: a lot of money, that the risk factor is really
- 16:19Speaker 5: low from an insurance point of view, so the premiums
- 16:22Speaker 5: will be quite low compared to your income. So every
- 16:25Speaker 5: time we deliver advice to our clients, we always have
- 16:28Speaker 5: a table called an affordability assessment, So we show what
- 16:31Speaker 5: the premiums that are paid through your bank account, what
- 16:34Speaker 5: percentage of your income is that makeup, and that is
- 16:38Speaker 5: generally one percent. You know, if it's three percent, I'm
- 16:41Speaker 5: pretty shocked. And then we also have an affordability assessment.
- 16:45Speaker 5: How much of the prem's coming from your super? What
- 16:47Speaker 5: percentage of that? And I think I don't have the
- 16:49Speaker 5: averages in front of me right now, but I think
- 16:51Speaker 5: we normally sit at around fifteen percent of your supercontributions
- 16:55Speaker 5: going towards your insurance. Premiums for our clients now is
- 16:58Speaker 5: to have full coverage all the different types of policies
- 17:01Speaker 5: that we look at. That's a general guide for us.
- 17:04Speaker 5: But as I said, it can be more expensive, it
- 17:05Speaker 5: can be cheaper. We make a judgment called that we
- 17:08Speaker 5: will actually limit our advice and make changes if it
- 17:11Speaker 5: is too high.
- 17:12Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, all right. Next question I've got. If you
- 17:16Speaker 3: have ADHD, can this give you a blanket mental health exclusion?
- 17:20Speaker 5: Yeah? Some insurers do blanket mental health exclusion, which is
- 17:23Speaker 5: like broad every mental health condition under the sun. But
- 17:26Speaker 5: there are some insurers who are moving towards just ADHD
- 17:29Speaker 5: only exclusions.
- 17:30Speaker 4: Very cool jokes on them.
- 17:32Speaker 3: I got my insurance before they started putting exclusions on ADHD.
- 17:36Speaker 4: I'm lucky.
- 17:37Speaker 3: Yeah, but also hilariously, that's why I can do what
- 17:40Speaker 3: I do. So good luck getting me out of the office.
- 17:43Speaker 5: And this is I know you want to sure you
- 17:45Speaker 5: know quick answers. I won't talk any more.
- 17:48Speaker 4: You're like, there is a lot of nuance.
- 17:50Speaker 5: Yeah, so much nuance. I'm trying not to go.
- 17:52Speaker 4: Do you want to give any nuance or let's keep it.
- 17:56Speaker 3: We can do a whole neurospicy episode one day more
- 17:59Speaker 3: than happy. I think that would be cool, like because
- 18:01Speaker 3: there are a lot of people who are like, what
- 18:03Speaker 3: the hell is mental health exclusion?
- 18:05Speaker 4: How deep does it go?
- 18:06Speaker 3: And there's a lot of insurance law in the background,
- 18:09Speaker 3: like oh my gosh, like go back ten years ago
- 18:12Speaker 3: and mental health exclusions?
- 18:14Speaker 5: What is mental health exactly like?
- 18:16Speaker 3: And then they started giving them and we didn't like
- 18:18Speaker 3: as an advisor at that point in time, I remember
- 18:21Speaker 3: getting my first mental health exclusion and.
- 18:23Speaker 4: I was like, sorry, what sir?
- 18:25Speaker 5: Yeah, like what is this? I remember it as well?
- 18:27Speaker 5: And you call it the underwrite? I just arguing with them.
- 18:30Speaker 4: Yeah, I was literally fighting on the ground.
- 18:31Speaker 5: They just had a relationship breakdown and prescribed some medication
- 18:34Speaker 5: that they never talk while you're doing a mental health exclusion.
- 18:37Speaker 5: Oh we have to blah blah blah.
- 18:38Speaker 2: Yeah.
- 18:38Speaker 3: It was actual crazy times, Like I'm surprised that some
- 18:42Speaker 3: of the insurers, like I'm still friends with some of
- 18:44Speaker 3: their bdms because you you hired one of their bdms.
- 18:48Speaker 3: Iconic can't believe she's still my friend because I'd call
- 18:51Speaker 3: up Zerich and be like, what the heck my client
- 18:54Speaker 3: deserves better yea, and yeah we're best use now.
- 18:59Speaker 4: I think they get where we're coming from.
- 19:02Speaker 3: Next question, I've got my insurance was set up before
- 19:04Speaker 3: I went on maternity leave. I'm not sure when I'll
- 19:07Speaker 3: go back. What happens with my insurance? Could I make
- 19:10Speaker 3: your claim?
- 19:11Speaker 5: Yeah, I'm gonna try and skip overall the nuance because
- 19:14Speaker 5: it's a deep topic.
- 19:15Speaker 3: Aust why I'm giving you deep questions because people want
- 19:17Speaker 3: quick fire answers, not essays.
- 19:19Speaker 5: Fill yeah, let me do it, Okay. If your insurance
- 19:22Speaker 5: is inside of super and you've actually finished up your
- 19:25Speaker 5: job and you're not gainfully employed, then your insurance within
- 19:29Speaker 5: your super fun won't pay out anything on income protection
- 19:31Speaker 5: claim route. If you've set it up with an advisor,
- 19:34Speaker 5: there will be a feature in that policy that they
- 19:36Speaker 5: will look back over the last generally over the last
- 19:38Speaker 5: twenty four months and go what was the best twelve
- 19:40Speaker 5: months of your income. So you can be on parental
- 19:43Speaker 5: leave for twelve months and not earn an income and
- 19:45Speaker 5: still if you're injured, ill, sick, and you can't return
- 19:48Speaker 5: to work, you can still get paid your full income
- 19:49Speaker 5: protection benefit for the people who are long term parental
- 19:53Speaker 5: leave or part time you know, and what does that
- 19:56Speaker 5: look like. That's just a discussion from when you set
- 19:59Speaker 5: up the POUL. Have you had any health events that
- 20:01Speaker 5: may impact increasing in the future, because sometimes it may
- 20:05Speaker 5: be worth over paying for insurance even if you're not
- 20:08Speaker 5: going to get paid to climb if it's going to
- 20:10Speaker 5: limit any future increase on your income protection short ends,
- 20:13Speaker 5: I go speak to your advisor who help you set up.
- 20:15Speaker 3: Yeah, and there's another question here which it doesn't play
- 20:20Speaker 3: into it, but it makes me think along the same lines,
- 20:23Speaker 3: because it's like for us, you and I have both
- 20:26Speaker 3: said insurance, get it set up today, Like just organize
- 20:29Speaker 3: it today. Organize it. Someone has said I'm organizing a
- 20:33Speaker 3: house and land package. We're part way through the process.
- 20:36Speaker 3: At what point in this process should I be talking
- 20:39Speaker 3: to an insurance advisor.
- 20:41Speaker 5: Well, congratulations, so exciting out on the house and land baggage.
- 20:44Speaker 5: Mortgages and insurance. They're both painful experiences to go through
- 20:48Speaker 5: From a life admin point of.
- 20:49Speaker 4: View, I guess we're both in that boat.
- 20:52Speaker 5: So there is a fair amount of work, and so
- 20:55Speaker 5: we've got to recognize there is work. Generally speaking, I
- 20:58Speaker 5: like setting up insurance for when you the mortgage, because
- 21:01Speaker 5: as early as possible is the ideal. But when you've
- 21:04Speaker 5: got that mortgage, you've got that obligation there that you
- 21:06Speaker 5: need to be servicing that mortgage, and so therefore that
- 21:09Speaker 5: comes with you need an income. Therefore, if you don't
- 21:12Speaker 5: have an income, you may not be able to service
- 21:13Speaker 5: that mortgage. So I generally like to say once you've
- 21:16Speaker 5: purchased it or done all that work. Do it before
- 21:19Speaker 5: you move into the house, because once you move into
- 21:22Speaker 5: the house, you've got to set up electricity, Internet, you've
- 21:24Speaker 5: got to do all of that other life admin. Then
- 21:26Speaker 5: you're thinking about buying furniture. What does all of that
- 21:28Speaker 5: look like if you do it before?
- 21:30Speaker 4: You said so much waiting time during that period?
- 21:33Speaker 5: Yeah, you sentiment period can be in ninety days. Yeah,
- 21:36Speaker 5: and so yeah, getting it sort of out in that
- 21:38Speaker 5: time period ort least starting the process and then either
- 21:41Speaker 5: putting the responsibility onto Sky to get the work done,
- 21:44Speaker 5: or then once you've got the advice, go ahead with
- 21:47Speaker 5: the insurer, because most of the time with insurance, you're
- 21:49Speaker 5: actually not doing stuff. You're just waiting on the insurer
- 21:53Speaker 5: to do all the work and get the medical reports.
- 21:55Speaker 5: So a lot of people think, oh, there must be
- 21:57Speaker 5: heaps involved. Well, no, there is just two points in
- 22:00Speaker 5: time to fill in a form. Once you feel it
- 22:02Speaker 5: in those forms, that's really all all you need to do,
- 22:06Speaker 5: victoria is fill in the form.
- 22:08Speaker 3: Really, that's crazy. I wish everybody in my community knew
- 22:12Speaker 3: it was as easy as that. For me personally, yeah, exactly,
- 22:16Speaker 3: I'm not good at life ad mean, I'm sorry for
- 22:18Speaker 3: me too.
- 22:18Speaker 5: Hey, I have a lot of empathy because I'm exactly.
- 22:21Speaker 3: The same, But I promise I will do it. Next
- 22:24Speaker 3: question I have is do I need income protection if
- 22:27Speaker 3: I am self employed? Yeah?
- 22:29Speaker 4: For sure, But I'm self employed.
- 22:31Speaker 5: Phil, Will your income last if you aren't able to work?
- 22:34Speaker 3: No? No, it's actually worse because I'm self employed and
- 22:38Speaker 3: I don't have any sick leave.
- 22:39Speaker 5: Yes. Ah, And this is where there is a lot
- 22:41Speaker 5: of nuance because insurance may actually limit your income protection
- 22:44Speaker 5: benefit amount because you know you're doing a lot of
- 22:47Speaker 5: expenses through your business. People think I'm earning one hundred
- 22:50Speaker 5: and fifty thousand dollars, but the actual salary and profit
- 22:53Speaker 5: is much less than that. Yeah, or it could be
- 22:55Speaker 5: much greater than that. They're all the things that you
- 22:56Speaker 5: need to consider when you're self employed.
- 22:58Speaker 3: Yeah, all right, all right, we're going to take a
- 23:00Speaker 3: very short break, but when we return, we're going to
- 23:02Speaker 3: be chatting through some of the examples feels brought along
- 23:05Speaker 3: of what.
- 23:06Speaker 4: It's like to be overinsured and what it's like to
- 23:08Speaker 4: be underinsured.
- 23:09Speaker 3: So don't go anywhere, all right, Phil, It is time
- 23:16Speaker 3: for a couple of case studies because sometimes things just
- 23:19Speaker 3: stick better when you give me a real life example,
- 23:22Speaker 3: like other people doing their life admin. But you've done
- 23:27Speaker 3: some redacting, you've done some snooping on your clients to
- 23:30Speaker 3: give us.
- 23:31Speaker 5: Some a well, actually we did a shout out to
- 23:34Speaker 5: that she's on the Monday community feel in this form
- 23:36Speaker 5: we did, and so we community members.
- 23:39Speaker 4: We didn't, you know, do it without consent, Like we
- 23:42Speaker 4: made sure.
- 23:42Speaker 5: That the person I'm not snooping on people.
- 23:45Speaker 4: No, but I like to call it snooping. I like
- 23:47Speaker 4: to call it pervy because it just sounds better.
- 23:49Speaker 3: Yeah, okay, Like it's like when I was a financial advisor,
- 23:52Speaker 3: do you really think that like I was feeling in
- 23:55Speaker 3: those forms. Absolutely no judgment, of course, But I wasn't like, oh,
- 23:59Speaker 3: like this means nothing. I'd be like, oh interesting, Like
- 24:02Speaker 3: I want to know about my clients. And if your
- 24:03Speaker 3: advisor doesn't want to know about you and the nuance,
- 24:06Speaker 3: wrong advisor.
- 24:07Speaker 4: Yeah, I agree, Like I want to know about you.
- 24:10Speaker 3: I want to know what you're doing. So let's talk
- 24:12Speaker 3: about the first person who's over insurance. Can you give
- 24:16Speaker 3: me like the top level?
- 24:18Speaker 5: Who are they? What do they do?
- 24:19Speaker 4: Like, what are their jobs? What are their income?
- 24:23Speaker 5: So the form, we ask the community members just give
- 24:26Speaker 5: us age some idea about the existing cove, and we
- 24:29Speaker 5: allow people to upload their details. So for this person,
- 24:32Speaker 5: they are single, forty five years old, no kids, and
- 24:36Speaker 5: the executive assistant how.
- 24:37Speaker 4: Much money have they got or how much money do
- 24:39Speaker 4: they earn in.
- 24:40Speaker 5: Terms of income? Ninety five thousand dollars. That's good income. Yeah, yeah, sick. Yeah.
- 24:45Speaker 5: So in terms of over insurance, the interesting thing about
- 24:48Speaker 5: this community member is they have life insurance and the
- 24:51Speaker 5: income protection insurance. Okay, now I'll give you a bit
- 24:55Speaker 5: more deep diving into protection.
- 24:57Speaker 4: I have both of those things.
- 24:58Speaker 5: Yeah, income protection, and we've got an agreed value policy.
- 25:03Speaker 4: Yeah, very nice. So she set it up a while ago.
- 25:05Speaker 5: Yeah, this is an old policy you can't get today.
- 25:08Speaker 4: I have one of those.
- 25:09Speaker 5: I don't have one of those. Actually I didn't say one.
- 25:11Speaker 3: Now does the insurance advisor not set up in a
- 25:14Speaker 3: greed value policy? I only did it because I scrambled
- 25:18Speaker 3: when they said that they were going to get rid
- 25:19Speaker 3: of them, and I was like, well, if they're going
- 25:21Speaker 3: to be grandfathered, I want to get me one of
- 25:22Speaker 3: those VD.
- 25:24Speaker 5: This is when I judge you for not doing life
- 25:27Speaker 5: admin is I don't judge you without fully understanding that
- 25:31Speaker 5: I'm exactly the same because when it was getting taken out,
- 25:35Speaker 5: I knew it for a long time, and I said
- 25:37Speaker 5: to myself, I got to sort my income protext. Now
- 25:39Speaker 5: do you know what I did? You didn't do it.
- 25:42Speaker 5: You know what I've also been telling people in the office,
- 25:43Speaker 5: I've got to increase my life in TBD insurance. For
- 25:46Speaker 5: me to guess what I've.
- 25:47Speaker 4: Done, none of that exactly, So you haven't even done yours.
- 25:50Speaker 5: No, I haven't increased my life and TBD.
- 25:53Speaker 4: Okay, so I don't.
- 25:55Speaker 3: I had those insurance, I'm paying for them, but we
- 25:58Speaker 3: haven't both of us have any increase them.
- 26:00Speaker 4: So take that as you will.
- 26:01Speaker 5: I've got a lot of cover, I just want more. Yeah,
- 26:05Speaker 5: and same with you. You got a good das amount
- 26:07Speaker 5: of cover. No, I want to pay more premiums so
- 26:10Speaker 5: my wife can be comfortable if something happens.
- 26:13Speaker 4: That's exactly why I want to do it.
- 26:14Speaker 5: But I think that a lot of anyway.
- 26:17Speaker 4: Tell me more about because I.
- 26:18Speaker 3: Think if you took my situation and what we're going
- 26:21Speaker 3: to move to right now, I'm underinsured, but I think
- 26:23Speaker 3: we're going to move to overinsured because I didn't realize
- 26:27Speaker 3: the anxiety that came with children anyway, anyway, tell.
- 26:30Speaker 5: Them so for me, the things that I would think
- 26:33Speaker 5: about for this person is, being an executive assistant, do
- 26:35Speaker 5: we need a greed value So that policy is probably
- 26:40Speaker 5: twenty five to forty percent more expensive depending on the provider,
- 26:45Speaker 5: just the greed value option. So what that means is
- 26:47Speaker 5: you're guaranteed to get that benefit amount. While an indemnity contract,
- 26:52Speaker 5: they look back at your last depending on the style
- 26:55Speaker 5: of contract, they look at the last three years and go,
- 26:57Speaker 5: what was your best twelve months of income? Will you
- 27:00Speaker 5: earning the amount to justify this benefit amount? Now, for me,
- 27:03Speaker 5: the questions I would have for this person who's an
- 27:06Speaker 5: executive assistant is how much does your income fluctuate? If
- 27:09Speaker 5: it hasn't fluctuating in the last ten years and it's
- 27:12Speaker 5: not likely to fluctuate in the next ten years, do
- 27:14Speaker 5: you really want to pay that extra premium for that
- 27:16Speaker 5: agreed value policy? That may actually not be worthwhile for
- 27:20Speaker 5: that individual. Now, if they came to me and said, hey,
- 27:23Speaker 5: I'm running, she's on the money. My income may fluctuate
- 27:26Speaker 5: over time because I'm a small business owner, then I
- 27:29Speaker 5: would say for yourself, VD, Yeah, agreed, value makes a
- 27:31Speaker 5: lot of sense. Let's go and increase that. But if
- 27:34Speaker 5: you're an employee, been doing it for a long time
- 27:36Speaker 5: and plan to be doing it for a long time,
- 27:38Speaker 5: that's where I would say, maybe you're paying high premiums
- 27:42Speaker 5: for the benefit that may not be there. The thing
- 27:44Speaker 5: to consider is life insurance. You know, forty five, single,
- 27:47Speaker 5: no kids, Is there a need for life insurance? I
- 27:50Speaker 5: would much rather allocate that money towards a trauma insurance
- 27:53Speaker 5: policy or a disability insurance policy, because there are two
- 27:57Speaker 5: policies that we don't actually have in this suite of products.
- 28:00Speaker 3: Yeah, and for those of us playing along at home,
- 28:03Speaker 3: we have done Phil and I have done episodes before
- 28:06Speaker 3: breaking down income protection and trauma and what these different
- 28:09Speaker 3: insurances are. I won't use the time that I have
- 28:11Speaker 3: with him today to explain each and every single one
- 28:14Speaker 3: in depth because it just it doesn't make sense to
- 28:16Speaker 3: do so. So go back and make sure that they're
- 28:18Speaker 3: linked in the show notes so that you can get
- 28:19Speaker 3: the full education. But when you're single, life insurance, yes,
- 28:24Speaker 3: you might want to pay off your house so that
- 28:25Speaker 3: you can leave it to somebody in the future. But
- 28:28Speaker 3: you're not setting up a family. You're not like, you know,
- 28:30Speaker 3: paying for education into the future or for your partner
- 28:34Speaker 3: to continue to stay home. Like trauma though, is something
- 28:38Speaker 3: that I would be like, Okay, well you're single, there's
- 28:39Speaker 3: no one to help you if something does happen.
- 28:42Speaker 4: So those things, yeah, red flag for me too.
- 28:45Speaker 5: And these are things that you know, we've done a
- 28:49Speaker 5: full review of, like what need we would require for
- 28:52Speaker 5: someone like this based on the we didn't have a
- 28:55Speaker 5: debt figure in this example. For me, I think covering
- 29:00Speaker 5: income until age sixty five is really important with a
- 29:02Speaker 5: combination of income protection and disability. So that requirement means
- 29:07Speaker 5: that there's probably I think an under insurance of around
- 29:09Speaker 5: six hundred and twenty five thousand dollars for disability cover
- 29:13Speaker 5: because the income protection only covers a certain amount of
- 29:16Speaker 5: that income and trauma insurance. You know, we're relatively conservative
- 29:20Speaker 5: in terms of our levels of cover. Some advisors will
- 29:22Speaker 5: have a lot more cover than what we recommend our clients,
- 29:25Speaker 5: but we recommend thirty percent of income for twelve months
- 29:28Speaker 5: if you're off work, you'll get that income protection payment
- 29:30Speaker 5: as well, and one hundred thousand dollars for medical expenses
- 29:33Speaker 5: or you know, anything else that you need that money for.
- 29:36Speaker 3: You've also got to be reasonable and then, like, your
- 29:39Speaker 3: client can be unreasonable and like, I don't mean that
- 29:42Speaker 3: in a bad way, but like someone like me, for example,
- 29:44Speaker 3: I know that my trauma insurance is higher than what
- 29:47Speaker 3: you guys recommended because I just felt more comfortable with
- 29:50Speaker 3: that and I'm about to increase it again. But you
- 29:53Speaker 3: guys basically used that methodology and said this is what
- 29:55Speaker 3: it is because you're also being conservative with your client's
- 30:00Speaker 3: Like at the end of the day, you're still spending
- 30:02Speaker 3: a client's money on insurances, and it's like, well, in
- 30:05Speaker 3: a perfect world, this is actually the biggest waste of
- 30:07Speaker 3: money ever. Like in a perfect world, you never claim
- 30:10Speaker 3: on insurances and you get to the age of sixty
- 30:12Speaker 3: five and you say, wow, I didn't need that perfect
- 30:16Speaker 3: like that is the outcome. But yeah, I just think
- 30:20Speaker 3: it's really interesting that you can always negotiate is the
- 30:24Speaker 3: word negotiate or just go back and be like, oh,
- 30:26Speaker 3: I feel that feels a bit low. Could we tweak
- 30:28Speaker 3: it a little bit? Like whatever you get in terms
- 30:31Speaker 3: of advice from your advisor isn't set in stone. It's
- 30:33Speaker 3: like here's our recommendations, and you could go drive more.
- 30:37Speaker 3: What would happen if I had less? Like we can
- 30:39Speaker 3: chat hey, And that's.
- 30:41Speaker 5: A great segment. I didn't even tell you I had
- 30:43Speaker 5: this data. But fifty percent of our clients who come
- 30:46Speaker 5: to us actually changed the quote before we apply.
- 30:50Speaker 4: Really yeah, They're just like, oh, I'd be more comfortable
- 30:53Speaker 4: with X or why yeah.
- 30:54Speaker 5: Yeah, And at the end of the day, we don't
- 30:56Speaker 5: mind what people go ahead with. Our job is to
- 30:59Speaker 5: educate people, understand the policies, how much cover we think
- 31:02Speaker 5: is important, but then empower them to make the choices
- 31:05Speaker 5: right for them. And so that is some people come back,
- 31:07Speaker 5: I actually I want more cover. So you know, for
- 31:10Speaker 5: my situation, I've got way more cover than I would
- 31:12Speaker 5: recommend myself as a client. Even how I'm saying I
- 31:14Speaker 5: need to increase my cover, my needs analysis have changed. Yeah,
- 31:19Speaker 5: my needs analysis tells me I'm fine, I've got hate
- 31:21Speaker 5: to cover, but I want more. But yeah, fifty percent
- 31:23Speaker 5: of our clients will say, yeah, thanks for the recommendation.
- 31:26Speaker 5: Can we tweak it in these little ways? And that's
- 31:29Speaker 5: the advisor's job to educate someone in terms of going, Hey,
- 31:32Speaker 5: that big number to life insurance or disability insurance is
- 31:34Speaker 5: always the biggest number. Bringing that down may not actually
- 31:37Speaker 5: have as big an impact as changing another feature. So
- 31:40Speaker 5: I can show you two different options.
- 31:42Speaker 3: Yeah, and the coolest thing there is, like we get
- 31:44Speaker 3: your recommendations, you've taken our personal circumstances into consideration.
- 31:48Speaker 4: But then once the advice.
- 31:50Speaker 3: Comes back, you might go, oh, well, if something did
- 31:53Speaker 3: happen to me, I'd love to leave ten grand to
- 31:57Speaker 3: you know, my mum or my dad or you know,
- 32:00Speaker 3: something like that. And that can be built in at
- 32:02Speaker 3: that point, or it can be built in before like
- 32:04Speaker 3: you could tell them. But sometimes the advice comes back
- 32:08Speaker 3: and you go.
- 32:08Speaker 4: Well you would have X. You go oh wait, hold on,
- 32:10Speaker 4: could I have a little bit more? Or you go, oh, actually, I.
- 32:12Speaker 3: Don't know if you know this, but here's some nuance Like,
- 32:16Speaker 3: you know, my family would just sell the house. They
- 32:17Speaker 3: wouldn't need the house, so like maybe we don't need
- 32:20Speaker 3: as much cover there. Yeah, it just gets really interesting.
- 32:23Speaker 5: And for this case study that we looked at, we
- 32:25Speaker 5: went and did a quote adding disability cover, adding the
- 32:30Speaker 5: trauma cover, and we were looking at like what it
- 32:33Speaker 5: would cost to replace the income protection. So it's not
- 32:35Speaker 5: a greed value. So we're kind of going downscale on
- 32:38Speaker 5: that income protection. But again that depends on the client's
- 32:41Speaker 5: situation and if they would need it, but we would
- 32:44Speaker 5: save them, you know, money by moving providers and adding
- 32:49Speaker 5: those two other policies for you know, one hundred and
- 32:51Speaker 5: thirty thousand dollars of trauma and six hundred thousand dollars
- 32:54Speaker 5: of disability. And in this quote, the fun fact is
- 32:57Speaker 5: that we would actually have life cover as well, because
- 33:00Speaker 5: it's often cheaper just to add life insurance, so there
- 33:03Speaker 5: would be no loss of life insurance. In fact, an
- 33:05Speaker 5: increase of that two other policies an overall cheaper, with
- 33:09Speaker 5: the one downside being no agreed varuing come protection.
- 33:12Speaker 3: So you're underinsured. We're going to fix it all up,
- 33:15Speaker 3: but it's going to cost you less. Yeah, that sounds
- 33:17Speaker 3: like a pretty good deal.
- 33:18Speaker 5: I'm not going to lie again. Nuance nance kind of going.
- 33:22Speaker 3: An example, and that's why I had to be like
- 33:24Speaker 3: filch our quick fire. We don't want the nuance, we
- 33:27Speaker 3: want the higher level because obviously this isn't financial advice.
- 33:31Speaker 4: But if you ask an advisor, yeah I know, I
- 33:34Speaker 4: am one.
- 33:36Speaker 5: The only nuance is health your current health history, will
- 33:39Speaker 5: impact that recommendation, of course, if we would actually choose
- 33:42Speaker 5: to do that.
- 33:43Speaker 3: All right, Now we have another one which has some
- 33:45Speaker 3: pretty significant health complications. You could say, give me the lowdown.
- 33:50Speaker 3: Who are they, what's going on in their life? How
- 33:53Speaker 3: much do they earn, how much covered do they have?
- 33:55Speaker 3: Do they not have?
- 33:56Speaker 5: Yep? So another single, no kids, thirty three, three years old,
- 34:00Speaker 5: working as a scientist. Now they have some group cover.
- 34:05Speaker 4: We call people in our community.
- 34:06Speaker 5: UNI super Yeah, scientists, yeah, big dog. And so they've
- 34:10Speaker 5: got group cover within unisuper. It's cheap as chips in
- 34:14Speaker 5: terms of it's costing them one hundred and sixty dollars
- 34:16Speaker 5: per year.
- 34:17Speaker 4: Money win.
- 34:18Speaker 5: Now, in our form we asked the premiums, but we
- 34:21Speaker 5: didn't get the benefit abount. So I've gone to unisuper
- 34:23Speaker 5: and worked out what is the level of cover. We're
- 34:26Speaker 5: talking about just under two hundred and sixty thousand dollars
- 34:29Speaker 5: worth of life insurance and disability for one hundred and
- 34:32Speaker 5: sixty dollars per year. Not too bad. But in terms
- 34:35Speaker 5: of if this person was to never be able to
- 34:38Speaker 5: work again or be off work for a short period
- 34:40Speaker 5: of time, there's no income protection. We've got no trauma
- 34:42Speaker 5: insurance and if this individual was to be off work forever,
- 34:46Speaker 5: two hundred and sixty thousand dollars is really not going
- 34:48Speaker 5: very far.
- 34:49Speaker 3: Rihann and Tracy who came on the podcast, and I
- 34:51Speaker 3: will also link her episode in the show notes because
- 34:54Speaker 3: she was phenomenal. She was one of the first people
- 34:56Speaker 3: that we talked to on the She's on the Money
- 34:58Speaker 3: podcast about claiming on insurance because I think it was
- 35:01Speaker 3: the day before her twenty first birthday she dove into
- 35:04Speaker 3: a pool in Bali and became a paraplegic, and so
- 35:07Speaker 3: we talked about her lifetime cost and what she did
- 35:10Speaker 3: and didn't have, and how much disability was costing her,
- 35:14Speaker 3: and we calculated out that to live her life, just
- 35:17Speaker 3: a normal life, we need about one point seven million
- 35:20Speaker 3: dollars in payouts in a perfect world to have covered
- 35:23Speaker 3: the rest of her life.
- 35:24Speaker 4: So like that's a lot.
- 35:26Speaker 5: Yeah, And people just underestimate the value of their income.
- 35:29Speaker 3: Yeah, you just think, oh, one hundred grand, that's so
- 35:31Speaker 3: much money, Like my friend, Unfortunately, that's not going to
- 35:34Speaker 3: cover you to the age of sixty five and beyond.
- 35:36Speaker 5: Well, so this thirty three year old, great question about
- 35:39Speaker 5: the value of their income thirty three year old scientists
- 35:41Speaker 5: on one hundred and nine thousand dollars a year. The
- 35:44Speaker 5: value of that income between now and retirement assuming your
- 35:46Speaker 5: retirement sixty five. When a thirty three year old is
- 35:49Speaker 5: sixty five, that's not retirement age. It'll probably be much later.
- 35:53Speaker 5: But if you project it out, it's five point four
- 35:56Speaker 5: million dollars. Yeah, of income that's going to be lost.
- 35:58Speaker 2: Now.
- 35:59Speaker 5: Sure the ATOS is taking a decent chunk of that over.
- 36:02Speaker 4: Time, and we have a whole conversation about that, yeah.
- 36:05Speaker 5: Which we won't. Yes, there's lots of tax, but that's
- 36:08Speaker 5: the value of that income over time. So the things
- 36:11Speaker 5: that are interesting about this one is, you know, there
- 36:14Speaker 5: has been a history of endometriosis pcos, you know, pull
- 36:17Speaker 5: ups on the intestine and the brackagene.
- 36:20Speaker 3: As well, which is a rough one when it comes
- 36:23Speaker 3: to insurance. And I had to go through this a
- 36:25Speaker 3: number of times with clients when we're going through the
- 36:27Speaker 3: underwriting process and the brackagen conversation would come up, and
- 36:32Speaker 3: insurance hate the brackagen. So give me a little bit
- 36:35Speaker 3: of nuance for those who maybe don't know what the
- 36:38Speaker 3: bracka gene is and how it impacts your ability to
- 36:41Speaker 3: get insured.
- 36:42Speaker 5: Well, I've got great news for you.
- 36:44Speaker 4: Actually it's changed.
- 36:45Speaker 5: The government legislated that insurance companies cannot use genetic test
- 36:51Speaker 5: to impact your insurance policy.
- 36:52Speaker 4: But they used to.
- 36:53Speaker 5: They used to from.
- 36:54Speaker 4: One when I wasn't it. I love this when I
- 36:57Speaker 4: was an advisor.
- 36:58Speaker 5: Or this year this change it. Yeah, one April, that
- 37:01Speaker 5: change it. Now it doesn't get fully implemented until one October.
- 37:04Speaker 4: So there is I'm excited.
- 37:06Speaker 5: Yeah, it will, it will be there. So one insurance
- 37:09Speaker 5: company doesn't ask the question anymore, so they've already changed it. Yeah,
- 37:12Speaker 5: every other insurer still asked it because there's a system
- 37:15Speaker 5: process is to change the question. But from one October
- 37:18Speaker 5: it's it's illegal to ask questions about genetic testing.
- 37:22Speaker 3: That is phenomenal because for those of you who maybe
- 37:25Speaker 3: haven't heard of the Bracer gene before, the bracer gene
- 37:28Speaker 3: is related to your probability of getting breast cancer. And
- 37:33Speaker 3: so if you carry the bracer gene, I believe that
- 37:36Speaker 3: you are eighty percent more likely to get breast cancer
- 37:40Speaker 3: during your lifetime because it's genetic. Very likely you will
- 37:43Speaker 3: find out that you have the bracer gene or that
- 37:45Speaker 3: you're the carrier of the bracer gene when your mum
- 37:48Speaker 3: or your grandmother gets diagnosed with breast cancer, because you know,
- 37:52Speaker 3: oncologists will say, hey, can we test this, and they'll say, oh,
- 37:56Speaker 3: you're carrying the bracer gene. Get your kids tested because
- 37:59Speaker 3: there's a very high probability that this could have been
- 38:01Speaker 3: passed on to them. And that is historically for me,
- 38:05Speaker 3: being a devastating conversation because I would have to say
- 38:09Speaker 3: to very fit, very young, very healthy people, I'm so sorry,
- 38:13Speaker 3: but they're not going to cover you for breast cancer
- 38:15Speaker 3: and by the way, you're more likely to get it,
- 38:18Speaker 3: And that was so terrible. But the idea that they're
- 38:21Speaker 3: lifting that, that's made my day, Like I'm so excited
- 38:24Speaker 3: about that. And in the back of my mind, I've
- 38:26Speaker 3: got like four people that I need to text to
- 38:28Speaker 3: be like, hey, your old advisor here, I don't know
- 38:30Speaker 3: if you know this, but can you call your current advisor.
- 38:33Speaker 4: I'm sure their current advisor is on top of it.
- 38:35Speaker 4: But I will not be letting that one slip. It's big.
- 38:38Speaker 5: It's almost like I chose that case study for you
- 38:40Speaker 5: to talk about that.
- 38:42Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, so our feelings on the strategy it is it's.
- 38:47Speaker 5: Great news because now again there is nuance here. Let
- 38:51Speaker 5: me tell you the nuance. If you have family history
- 38:54Speaker 5: of breast cancer, it can still impact your cover.
- 38:56Speaker 4: Yes, so that is fine.
- 38:58Speaker 5: It's more for people who when and have gone. You
- 39:01Speaker 5: know what, let's just get a genetic test. I want
- 39:03Speaker 5: to see what's going on. I want open eyes understand
- 39:05Speaker 5: what's going on. Those people won't be impacted by it.
- 39:09Speaker 5: So if you don't have any family history wrest cancer,
- 39:11Speaker 5: but you found out you do have the bracket gene,
- 39:13Speaker 5: then it won't impact your insurance application. From one October
- 39:16Speaker 5: twenty twenty six.
- 39:17Speaker 3: That is definitely something that I thought about actually when
- 39:20Speaker 3: I was trying to conceive for the very first time,
- 39:22Speaker 3: because my husband and I went and did genetic testing,
- 39:25Speaker 3: and it was at that point that I said to
- 39:27Speaker 3: my husband, our insurances are all good, aren't they? Because
- 39:29Speaker 3: I didn't want to do that genetic testing until I
- 39:32Speaker 3: knew my insurances were set and forget because anything I
- 39:34Speaker 3: found out after that couldn't be taken out of my insurances.
- 39:39Speaker 3: So just the idea that there's a lot more freedom
- 39:42Speaker 3: now makes so much sense.
- 39:44Speaker 5: Yeah, and so I guess this is the reason I
- 39:47Speaker 5: brought up this case study is because polyps in the
- 39:49Speaker 5: intestine pcos endometriosis. There was a comment saying, hey, I
- 39:53Speaker 5: looked into the changing cover briefly due to medical issues,
- 39:57Speaker 5: and I was advised if I swapped my insurance, I
- 39:59Speaker 5: wouldn't be it for particular illnesses. And I wasn't able
- 40:02Speaker 5: to get covered due to the outstanding endometriosis diagnosis. And
- 40:06Speaker 5: they've said they've been waiting for searchure for ten years.
- 40:08Speaker 5: Not that uncommon if you're going through the public system. Now,
- 40:14Speaker 5: I don't know if that's true. And the reason why
- 40:16Speaker 5: I say that is because you hear comments about, oh,
- 40:21Speaker 5: I got declined for mdu metiosis, and so you project
- 40:24Speaker 5: that and go, oh, maybe that's my situation, or you
- 40:26Speaker 5: speak to an advisor who may not specialize in it,
- 40:28Speaker 5: and go, I'm pretty sure we can't get you cover,
- 40:31Speaker 5: and people take that as kind of gospel. And this
- 40:34Speaker 5: is kind of what I wanted to kind of touch on,
- 40:36Speaker 5: is that may have been true at that point in time,
- 40:40Speaker 5: but it doesn't mean you don't revisit it again.
- 40:42Speaker 4: Yeah, and so things change.
- 40:43Speaker 3: Even I didn't know that because I'm now out of
- 40:45Speaker 3: the industry and now I'm a bit like, oh am,
- 40:48Speaker 3: I losing my touch.
- 40:50Speaker 4: I'm not on top of it anymore, Phiel, Which.
- 40:52Speaker 5: Is fine, you're busy, you're busy, but that's there the network. Yeah,
- 40:56Speaker 5: they're the things that it's like underwriting changes all the time.
- 41:00Speaker 5: Rules will change over time. So even if you went
- 41:02Speaker 5: and did a full assessment with Sky and we told
- 41:05Speaker 5: this client that they can't get cover, it doesn't mean
- 41:07Speaker 5: it's the case forever. It is means that maybe come
- 41:10Speaker 5: back in a few years time, we'll revisit everything, We'll
- 41:13Speaker 5: get your disclosures again, we'll send it off to ensures.
- 41:15Speaker 5: If it's a full decline again, we'll let you know
- 41:18Speaker 5: that that's the case.
- 41:19Speaker 3: Yeah, And I think that that's where a lot of
- 41:21Speaker 3: people just assume they might come to you and it's
- 41:24Speaker 3: a set and forget kind of thing.
- 41:25Speaker 4: But you kind of fall into the Sky Wealth community
- 41:28Speaker 4: and you.
- 41:29Speaker 3: Just text your advisor or message your advisor or email
- 41:33Speaker 3: them and be like, hey, my situation's changed, and they'll
- 41:35Speaker 3: be like, yeah, yeah, let me just like send you
- 41:36Speaker 3: the forms to update these things. So there's no you
- 41:39Speaker 3: having to go and do a manual process every single time,
- 41:42Speaker 3: like they've got all your information, we can update things,
- 41:45Speaker 3: we can retest things like Phil guaranteed would have put
- 41:48Speaker 3: if he said, oh, let me touch base in a year,
- 41:51Speaker 3: because like we can revisit that, or we can talk
- 41:53Speaker 3: about that exclusion changing. He's already got it in his calendar.
- 41:56Speaker 3: And he will pest to you because he pesteres me.
- 41:59Speaker 3: And it's not just because he pest is me. It's
- 42:01Speaker 3: because I have the whole community being like, how great's Phil,
- 42:05Speaker 3: and like I love it because like I know, but
- 42:09Speaker 3: just shut up about Phil.
- 42:10Speaker 5: You know. The last thing I wanted to touch on
- 42:12Speaker 5: is we did a comparison for this person with unisuper.
- 42:15Speaker 5: A lot of people think, go to your superfu and
- 42:17Speaker 5: it's cheaper, and we did the same levels of cover
- 42:20Speaker 5: that we would consider income protection disability to life, and
- 42:24Speaker 5: unisuper was twenty six hundred dollars per year. Yeah, in premiums.
- 42:29Speaker 5: If we had a decent level of cover, most of
- 42:31Speaker 5: that cost is income protection for young people, and that
- 42:34Speaker 5: is expensive.
- 42:35Speaker 3: Like I think that if you're going to get receipt
- 42:37Speaker 3: shock or like bill shock, it's probably going to be
- 42:39Speaker 3: at your income protection.
- 42:41Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, I mean for young people. Yeah, that's the
- 42:43Speaker 5: thing that protects the bulk amount of climbs, but we
- 42:46Speaker 5: looked at an advice policy that was fifteen hundred.
- 42:48Speaker 3: Dollars okay, And that is a significant saving. And like
- 42:52Speaker 3: I know a lot of people will say things like, oh,
- 42:54Speaker 3: but it's coming out of my super Yeah, that's money
- 42:56Speaker 3: that can compound in your super every single year and
- 42:59Speaker 3: make you more money in retirement.
- 43:01Speaker 4: Like, this is a good outcome for a free body.
- 43:03Speaker 5: And this is why we all day, every day we're
- 43:06Speaker 5: comparing super premiums versus the premiums we can set up.
- 43:09Speaker 5: And I'm so sick of hearing that my super fund
- 43:12Speaker 5: is cheap. I'll just go there. We are rolling out
- 43:14Speaker 5: on our website that every time we tell a client, hey,
- 43:18Speaker 5: go from your super fun to this insurance providers, we're
- 43:21Speaker 5: going to show that data, just the numbers, not obviously
- 43:24Speaker 5: no client data. We're showing the numbers on average, but
- 43:27Speaker 5: how much we're saving our clients. And so I'm looking
- 43:29Speaker 5: at it. As of today, the average super premiums would
- 43:33Speaker 5: be just under four thousand dollars, and the average premiums
- 43:37Speaker 5: that we have set up is just under three thousand dollars.
- 43:40Speaker 4: So it's like, that's so good.
- 43:42Speaker 5: Massive savings, and I know you're a data geek as well.
- 43:47Speaker 5: We literally have gone so you can click on our
- 43:49Speaker 5: thing and go which super fund am I with, and
- 43:51Speaker 5: you can see the number of clients we've moved from
- 43:54Speaker 5: that super fun and how much the average saving is.
- 43:57Speaker 4: I see, and I think that's sick.
- 43:59Speaker 3: What's a number? Well, because we're just talking about it,
- 44:03Speaker 3: not throwing them under the bus.
- 44:05Speaker 4: Still call me.
- 44:05Speaker 5: I actually love unie super because they have defined benefits
- 44:08Speaker 5: and they do I like Unisuper. At the moment we
- 44:11Speaker 5: go low client, so there is eight clients, the average
- 44:14Speaker 5: saving is like fifty percent cheaper, so literally half priced
- 44:17Speaker 5: is the average.
- 44:18Speaker 3: Sorry Unisuper, we love you, but like also sorry, we
- 44:21Speaker 3: care more about our clients.
- 44:22Speaker 5: So you can search alphabetically. You can search from the
- 44:24Speaker 5: highest saving to the lower saving and spicy and we
- 44:27Speaker 5: don't game in this either. We're showing if we're moving
- 44:29Speaker 5: someone to a more expensive product as well, so if
- 44:32Speaker 5: we're saying to a client, you should be paying more
- 44:34Speaker 5: money for these premiens. And here's all the reasons why
- 44:36Speaker 5: we'll show that data.
- 44:37Speaker 3: I'm going to put the link to that direct website
- 44:39Speaker 3: in my show notes as well, because I just know
- 44:41Speaker 3: people are going to be like sorry, where like they're
- 44:43Speaker 3: scrolling through their podcast thing right now to get to
- 44:45Speaker 3: the show notes, to be like, oh, spicy information, because
- 44:47Speaker 3: that's where I live. Feel unfortunately, that is all we
- 44:51Speaker 3: have time for today. I feel like you're the best
- 44:53Speaker 3: person to talk to when it comes to comparing insurance
- 44:56Speaker 3: and understanding where we might fall. So thank you so
- 44:59Speaker 3: much for coming in and sharing your wisdom with us.
- 45:01Speaker 3: It is always appreciated. Thank you, and as always, my friends,
- 45:05Speaker 3: there's so much more for our community to take away
- 45:08Speaker 3: and consider when it comes to personal coverage. If your
- 45:10Speaker 3: insurance is in need of a little bit of a
- 45:13Speaker 3: health check, very brazen shout out to our friends Phil
- 45:16Speaker 3: and his entire team at sky Wealth to set up
- 45:19Speaker 3: a system that actually has your back. We're going to
- 45:21Speaker 3: make sure to add all of those links we've talked
- 45:23Speaker 3: about today into the show notes, and if you've found
- 45:25Speaker 3: this episode helpful or even possibly life changing, please let
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- 45:35Speaker 3: and I will see you on Friday.
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