Ease Insurance Brokers: Everything you need to know
Founded: 2001
Types of services: Insurance broker
Team: 3
Office: Auckland
Ease Insurance Brokers started its business in 2001, beginning as a different entity before taking on its current trading name in 2010. It is based in Auckland but serves clients across both the North and South Islands.
Ease Insurance Brokers offers advice in person, by phone and through email, and covers the full range of personal insurance needs. It deals with income and mortgage protection, redundancy insurance and health and life, and also advises clients on their wills.
It currently has three full-time insurance advisers, and works with eight insurance companies including Nib, AIA, Partners Life and Asteron life, among others. Its key objectives are to save clients money on insurance policies, help them choose from the best insurance products available on the New Zealand market and bring convenience and ease of access.
“We are not a single insurance company’s insurance agent – instead, we work for you, providing unbiased and objective advice, proactive solutions to understand your needs and position you to financially survive any insurable event,” Ease Insurance states.
Ease Insurance Brokers in the news
2001: Ease NZ commences business, offering advice on life, income and health insurance.
2009: Michele Ball and Andrew Ball join as insurance specialists.
2010: The company starts trading as Ease Insurance Brokers, its legal name becoming Ease New Zealand Limited.
Key people (as of 2019)
Michele Ball – Insurance Specialist
Ball has been involved in insurance since 1991 and has a long history in sales. She joined Ease at its inception in 2010 and is a Registered Financial Adviser (RFA). She is responsible for the strategic direction of Ease Insurance Brokers through sales, marketing and training.
Andrew Ball – Company Principal & Specialist Insurance Adviser
Ball also joined Ease Insurance in 2010. He started his career as a corporate accountant and 10 years later became a mortgage broker, helping individuals into home ownership. He spent eight years in the mortgage space before moving to insurance, where he now specialises in death and terminal illness, trauma insurance, disablement income protection and health cover.
Sandy Ng – New and Existing Client Contact
Ng was a finance and insurance adviser for seven years in Hong Kong before moving over to New Zealand in 2019. She spent time working with the largest insurance broker in Hong Kong, and obtained her Associate Financial Planner (AFP) certificate in 2015. She is currently the central client contact person at Ease Insurance Brokers.
Culture
Ease Insurance Brokers regularly publishes information articles for clients explaining the different kinds of insurance it handles, what it provides cover for, who might need it and why it might be particularly important for certain types of client. Examples of topics include the difference between mortgage protection insurance and mortgage cover, why income protection is important for New Zealand families and how much a redundancy insurance policy should cost.
