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Insurers halt some virus cover

ELIZA BAVIN  |  FRIDAY, 20 MAR 2020
... COVID-19, in contact with someone in quarantine or in contact with someone who has been in self-isolation." Meanwhile, ClearView said there will be no specific exclusions for claims arising from a pandemic event, and said there are no plans to include ...

ClearView rated stable

HARRISON WORLEY  |  FRIDAY, 20 MAR 2020
In its first ever Fitch rating, ClearView Wealth has been declared stable. ClearView Wealth has picked up a long-term issuer default rating of BBB from credit rating issuer Fitch, the wealth manager's first rating by the firm. According to Fitch, both ...

HUB24 wins $1b mandate

ALLY SELBY  |  THURSDAY, 19 MAR 2020
... diversified financial services company has awarded HUB24 a $1 billion mandate, as it moves away from its own wrap platform. ClearView will migrate the $1 billion from its own WealthSolutions wrap platform to HUB24, subject to all regulatory requirements. ...

ClearView restructures pricing as life sector struggles

HARRISON WORLEY  |  FRIDAY, 13 MAR 2020
The tough times in Australia's life insurance sector have forced the provider to overhaul its pricing. ClearView has revised its pricing across its Life Solutions stepped and hybrid income protection products, as the insurer battles to remain profitable ...

Major life insurers continue to suffer

HARRISON WORLEY  |  THURSDAY, 23 JAN 2020
... (-4.5%) and Zurich (-3.2%) all followed suit. MetLife managed to buck the trend growing by 5%, while smaller player ClearView performed well to post 10.3% growth. TAL, the market leader with $3.795 billion in risk premium inflows across the year and ...

Super fund appoints deputy investments chief

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 JAN 2020
... and the head of private equity at Victoria Funds Management. He is currently a non-executive director at ASX-listed ClearView Wealth. In 2018, the PNG police charged laid charges against Brown for conspiring to defraud, after he made enquiries about ...

ASIC bans direct life cold calling

HARRISON WORLEY  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 DEC 2019
... penalty after the firm plead guilty to 87 counts of unlawful life insurance hawking. In February 2018, an ASIC review of ClearView's sales calls found the insurer used unfair and high pressure sales tactics to sell life policies over the phone, resulting ...

Whistleblower calls out approved product lies

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 OCT 2019
... been no real changes to the culture and practices inside these organisations," Morris said. The paper commissioned by ClearView and titled Approves Product Lies: Combating the manipulation of advice, claims there is no reasonable basis to exclude from ...

Life industry steps toward trust

HARRISON WORLEY  |  FRIDAY, 11 OCT 2019
... understanding signed by the two groups - whose members include the likes of AIA Australia, AMP Life, BT Life Insurance, ClearView, MLC Life Insurance, TAL Life, and Zurich - is set to ensure collaboration and dialogue between key insurance leaders. ANZIIF ...

Licensee faces hefty remediation bill

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 SEP 2019
Australian financial services license holder ClearView Financial Advice has been hit with a remediation bill for $730,000. ClearView's review and remediation program for over 200 clients who received poor life insurance advice resulted in the figure. ...