{"id":39667,"date":"2018-01-29T16:00:15","date_gmt":"2018-01-29T05:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/?p=39667"},"modified":"2018-01-30T22:11:37","modified_gmt":"2018-01-30T11:11:37","slug":"online-retailer-expands-into-life-insurance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/2018\/01\/29\/online-retailer-expands-into-life-insurance\/","title":{"rendered":"Online Retailer Expands Into Life Insurance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Online retailer, Kogan.com, will offer life insurance under its own brand after entering into an agreement with life insurance distributor and administrator, Greenstone Financial Services.<!--more--><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_39668\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-39668\" style=\"width: 150px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/files\/2018\/01\/DavidShafer.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-39668\" src=\"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/files\/2018\/01\/DavidShafer.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"180\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-39668\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kogan.com Executive Director, David Shafer<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Under the agreement, life insurance policies sold by Kogan Life Insurance will pay a commission to Kogan.com, and products are expected to be launched before the middle of the year.<\/p>\n<p>Kogan.com currently offers car, travel, home, contents and landlord insurance via Hollard Insurance, and Kogan.com Executive Director, <strong>David Shafer<\/strong> said the move into life insurance with Greenstone was a \u2018natural extension\u2019 to its existing insurance offerings.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are very pleased to partner with Greenstone, a leader and innovator in Australian life insurance market, to offer life insurance products to our growing community of smart Aussies, enabling them to save more of their hard-earned money,\u201d Shafer said.<\/p>\n<p>Greenstone has a number of similar distribution arrangements in place offering life insurance products through Medibank Private, Guardian Insurance, Real Insurance, Woolworths Insurance, and online comparison site Choosi.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Online retailer, Kogan.com, will offer life insurance under its own brand after entering into an agreement with life insurance distributor and administrator, Greenstone Financial Services.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48,4,5],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-39667","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-company-news","7":"category-products","8":"category-services"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39667","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39667"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39667\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39667"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39667"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39667"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}