ClearView Wealth says insurers are forced to 'pay to play'
Listed insurer ClearView Wealth has written to a parliamentary joint committee claiming that insurance companies pay millions of dollars a year in shelf-space fees to appear on product lists.
In a letter to the joint parliamentary committee on corporations and financial services, ClearView chief executive Simon Swanson estimated that insurers paid between $10 million and $15 million a year to be placed on lists from which financial advisers select products for clients.
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