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Insurance premiums should be questioned

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 9 OCT 2015
... substantial profits. Lifeinsurancedirect.com.au chief executive Russell Cain said top life insurers such as AMP, TAL, ClearView and ANZ all posted strong profits during reporting season and have little reason to be crying poor about business being unsustainable. ...

TAL, Zurich dominate life awards

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 15 SEP 2015
... Insurance (along with TAL), OnePath for Trauma Insurance (also with TAL), Macquarie for Income Protection (with TAL again), ClearView for TPD Insurance (with Zurich) and OnePath for Packaged Life Insurance (also with Zurich). The ratings are based on ...

ClearView life insurance drives $20m profit

ALEX BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 AUG 2015
ClearView has boosted its net profit after tax to $20.5 million in FY2015, up 4% on the previous year. This growth was primarily driven by the company's life insurance division, which boosted net profit by 41% to $15.3 million, thanks to a 26% in new ...

BetaShares appoints CIO

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 30 JUL 2015
... Advisers. Furthermore, Matthew Reeves has joined BetaShares as compliance manager - he previously held the same role at ClearView Wealth - and Sarah Hare has been appointed marketing manager. Hare joins BetaShares from Macquarie, where she was a content ...

AFA tweaking life insurance framework

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 21 JUL 2015
... executive Brad Fox has said that more work needs to be done to strengthen the "details" of the framework. This reflects ClearView managing director Simon Swanson's comments to Financial Standard following the framework's release, when he said: "Directionally ...

Risk reforms ignore key adviser concerns

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 25 JUN 2015
... approached seven insurers with the product design so far, all of which (except two) are at various stages of implementation. ClearView managing director Simon Swanson was also pleased that the new industry reform package wasn't so heavily driven towards ...

ClearView predicts end of independent financial advice

ALEX BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 APR 2015
... payments in the FSI and Trowbridge reports could drive independent advisers completely out of business, according to ClearView's FSI submission. The submission suggested that mandating level commission payments and capping initial advice payments would ...

Advice M&A activity set to soar in 2015

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 9 MAR 2015
... dealer group after acquiring Centric Wealth and Crowe Horwath. IOOF acquired SFG Australia and CUA Financial Planning, Clearview took over Matrix Planning Solutions and Spring Financial bought Pink Diamond Financial Group and Moneytree Partners Group. ...

ClearView surpasses 200 adviser milestone after merger

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 FEB 2015
ClearView reported having 216 financial advisers under its license, following the merger with Matrix Planning Solutions in October. ClearView's net profit after tax was $9.9 million for the six months to December 2014, which represents a 9% growth from ...

ClearView calls for life insurance industry crackdown

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 24 FEB 2015
ClearView Wealth Limited has petitioned Life Insurance and Advice Working Group (LIAWG) chairman John Trowbridge to fix numerous conflicts of interest within the industry. The key recommendations in ClearView's statement were indicating that narrow ...