CLEARVIEW

People & Products

OnePath has won the over Association of Financial Advisers (AFA) and the Beddoes Institute 2018 Consumer Choice Award, with ClearView coming in second place....

Life/Risk

ClearView has told the Royal Commission it has no intention of returning to direct life/risk insurance and will remain focused on the advised market....

Life/Risk

The Royal Commission has been urged to hold the board members of ClearView to account for breaches of directors’ duties relating to the activities of its direct life/risk...

Life/Risk

TAL will today join ClearView and Freedom in being scrutinised by the Royal Commission on the failings of direct life/risk sales business....

Life/Risk

In a hearing littered by admissions of wrongdoing by Clearview, the Royal Commission has heard the insurer’s chief risk officer, Gregory Martin, detail how the firm breac...

Life/Risk

The practice of offering “downgraded” life insurance products has come under the spotlight at the Royal Commission, with Clearview questioned over its practice of offerin...

Life/Risk

Clearview’s targeting of particular demographics for its life/risk products has come under fire on the first day of the Royal insurance hearings, in regard to the insurer...

Life/Risk

TAL, CommInsure, AMP and ClearView have been named to front the next round of hearings of the Royal Commission into Misconduct in the Banking, Superannuation and Financia...

Financial planning

Planners’ uptake on providing advice on insurance is low, leading to adverse impacts on practice revenue derived from risk advice, Investment Trends has found....

Financial planning

ClearView independent non-executive director David Brown has been arrested and charged with attempting to remove and replace the current fund manager of the Pacific Balan...

Financial planning

All group life insurance should be “opt-in” according to ClearView managing director, Simon Swanson, in circumstances where the “cheapness” of group can be illusory....

Financial planning

The strongest drivers of client satisfaction at claim time are efficient claims lodgement and assessment processes, says the latest Beddoes Institute’s report, with Clear...

Features

Money Management conducted a roundtable in which key participants discussed the evolving impact the rise of managed accounts has had on planning and platforms....

Life/Risk

ClearView has welcomed changes in last night’s Budget to make group insurance opt-in for workers under 25, calling for the policy to be extended to all superannuation mem...

Financial planning

Key insurance group, ClearView has warned a Parliamentary Committee that a push for standardised policy terms being led by the Financial Services Council could amount to ...

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Glad to see the back of you Steve. You made financial more expensive, not more affordable as you claim, and presided ...

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