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ClearView breached anti-hawking law 300k times

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 10 SEP 2018
... investigation into the sector, which found direct-to-customer sale practices and products of 11 life insurance providers offered little to no value. ClearView was among the providers; it also included CommInsure, NobleOak Life, TAL Life, and OnePath ...

Life insurer undertakes strategic review

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 6 SEP 2018
... release of ASIC's review into direct life insurance last week. ASIC's review found sales practices and products that offer little to no value are leading to poor consumer outcomes, with insurers regularly providing insufficient information as to adequacy ...

Integrity Life expands senior team

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 4 SEP 2018
... senior roles and a non-executive director. Integrity announced Mark McCrea is the new operations manager and Jacqueline Little takes on the head of product role. Joining from ClearView Wealth as head of operations, McCrea brings 25 years' of experience ...

Robo-advice not dead: GlobalData

HARRISON WORLEY  |  MONDAY, 3 SEP 2018
... GlobalData wealth management analyst Sergel Woldemichael, the high-profile shuttering of the giant's UK robo platform means little for the future of robo-advice. "This latest closure is not the end for automated service: robo has the future, and UBS ...

Fintech introduces STP product

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 31 AUG 2018
... customers to meet their compliance and payment needs. This latest development ensures our existing clients need to do very little to be STP compliant." Regulations enforce employers with 20 or more employees to transition to STP from 1 July 2018, while ...

Direct life insurance failing consumers: ASIC

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 30 AUG 2018
A comprehensive ASIC review of direct life insurance found sales practices and products that offer little to no value are leading to poor consumer outcomes. The practises of 11 life insurance providers selling direct-to-customers were examined and included ...

Kapstream renews industry fund relationship

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 30 AUG 2018
... predominantly in investment grade securities and will offer daily liquidity. "We expect domestic interest rates to remain little changed over the next year or two, requiring managers to think more laterally about generating extra absolute returns for ...

Future Fund delivers 9.3%, increases risk moderately

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 AUG 2018
... return of 7.9% per anunm. "When we start drawing out of the Future Fund, it should take some pressure off taxes. It is a little bit of padding for the households in the future," he said. Since inception, the fund has earned $85 billion from $60.5 billion ...

Reverse mortgage lenders shortsighted: ASIC

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 AUG 2018
... all the loan files ASIC reviewed. ASIC found lenders focused primarily on the borrower's short-term objectives and little to no attention was paid to their possible future needs. "Inquiries made by licensees lacked sufficient detail and followed ...

Stale boys club lingers on: Research

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 AUG 2018
... compulsory reporting of pay data and performance-based incentive or bonus structures. Older survey participants reported seeing little to no change in recent decades, with a consensus that talk of diversity and taking action is little more than noise. ...