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Life, funeral insurers cop $14m fine

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 JUL 2023
... banned from managing a company for five years, while his companies were fined $13.5 million. The Federal Court found Russell Howden, also the director of BlueInc, engaged in unconscionable conduct and breaching financial services laws when selling life ...

Subjects of Royal Commission case study found guilty in court

CHLOE WALKER  |  MONDAY, 11 JUL 2022
... Marketing Service Pty Ltd (IMS) engaged in unconscionable conduct when selling insurance products. The Court also found Russell Howden, the managing and sole director of Select and BlueInc, was involved in some of the contraventions and breached his ...

Phone life insurance sales 'hawking' customers: Royal Commission

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 6 JUL 2018
... behaviour and a sales-driven culture, and effectively breached anti-hawking provisions. Select AFSL managing director Russell Howden was in the hot seat again; this time explaining to the Commission why ASIC had reason to believe the firm engaged in ...

Royal Commission cracks down on life insurance phone sales

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 5 JUL 2018
... client's authorisation for us to cancel their policies," Let's Insure said. Select AFSL managing director Russell Howden admitted that in hindsight "we pushed our agents" and this practice was "regrettable." Some staff members were incentivised ...
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