• Market manipulation

Former Regal dealer banned for manipulative trades

Dylan Rands, a former trader at the hedge fund, copped a five-year ban after ASIC said he manipulated the price of ClearView shares, which the fund owned.

• Updated Sep 22, 2021
• Jonathan Shapiro

'Appropriate': AMP defends charging dead people, TAL says spying standard

AMP said its process of charging dead customers life insurance premiums was "inevitable and appropriate" while TAL said spying on customers was "accepted industry-wide".

• Updated Oct 3, 2018
• James Frost

ClearView seeks to get house in order after Hayne hit

Besieged wealth group ClearView is pursuing a new a partnership model with financial advisers after its royal commission battering.

• Updated Sep 12, 2018
• Joyce Moullakis

Banking royal commisison puts ClearView's boiler room on display

Insurer and wealth manager ClearView has admitted to more than 300,000 breaches of anti-hawking laws and selling lower quality life insurance policies to poor people on the first day of insurance hearings.

• Updated Sep 10, 2018
• James Frost and Misa Han

Banking royal commission: ClearView targeted poor people with low quality products

ClearView deliberately targeted customers from lower socio-economic backgrounds with more expensive policies, but abandoned the model only after it realised that the regulator was about to turn up the heat.

• Updated Sep 10, 2018
• James Frost

• Chanticleer

Banking royal commission: Insurers' confession session does not bode well

Senior counsel assisting Rowena Orr started the banking royal commission's insurance round with a laundry list of misdeeds by Australia's top insurers.

• Updated Sep 10, 2018
• James Thomson

Banking royal commission to probe commission-chasing insurers

The practice of churning of customers from one policy to the next for windfall commissions will be exposed.

• Updated Sep 9, 2018
• James Frost

ClearView Wealth says insurers are forced to 'pay to play'

Listed insurer ClearView claims insurance companies pay millions of dollars a year in shelf-space fees to appear on product lists.

• Updated Mar 28, 2017
• Sally Patten

ClearView and Sony Life examine annuities push

ClearView is looking at opportunities in the Australian retirement income market.

• Updated Feb 23, 2017
• Alice Uribe

• Exclusive

Outdated insurance products must be rationalised quickly says Actuaries Institute

The government must pursue insurance legacy product rationalisation more vigorously.

• Updated Feb 6, 2017
• Alice Uribe

Global giants swoop on Australia's life insurers

In the 90s Australia was on its way to claiming a spot on the global insurance stage, but now our players are prey.

• Updated Jan 13, 2017
• Sally Patten

AIA Australia says that life insurance in superannuation must remain mandatory

Default insurance cover in superannuation should remain opt-out, says AIA Australia.

• Updated Dec 19, 2016
• Alice Uribe

Life insurance in super should be optional: ClearView

Superannuation fund members should not be forced to take out life insurance but should be offered cover against death, accidents and illness on an optional basis, says listed wealth manager ClearView.

• Updated Dec 4, 2016
• Sally Patten

Sony Life bolsters local Japanese life presence with ClearView stake

Japanese insurer Sony Life have agreed to buy 14.9 per cent of ClearView from private equity firm Crescent and its co-investors.

• Updated Oct 25, 2016
• Joyce Moullakis and Jonathan Shapiro

• Street Talk

Asia-based suitor eyes Crescent Capital stake in ClearView Wealth

ClearView Wealth shares are in a trading halt as the company prepares to welcome a new Asia-based shareholder, sources told Street Talk, 

• Updated Oct 25, 2016
• Edited by Sarah Thompson, Anthony Macdonald and Joyce Moullakis