Hannah Wootton

Hannah Wootton

Hannah is a journalist at Money Management and Super Review. She has previously written on law, society, media, and design.

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CommInsure was aware that its definition of “heart attack” for insurance claims was outdated and could potentially result in the rejection of otherwise legitimate claims ...

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Freedom’s retention practices make it “unnecessarily difficult to cancel [insurance] policies” with just 28.5 per cent of customers trying to cancel funeral insurance cov...

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Freedom received 72 cancellation calls a day from customers for its funeral insurance policy over a 13-month period, with 13 per cent of those calls coming during the fir...

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Freedom ended dubious sales practices for four insurance products just days before appearing before the Royal Commission, then failed to disclose this information to the ...

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With insurance sales practices proving a focus of the Royal Commission’s current hearings, the Commission has heard of how Freedom sold a disabled man funeral insurance a...

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The Workplace Super Specialist Australia has told its national conference that existing employer funds should be included on recommended default superannuation fund lists...

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In a hearing littered by admissions of wrongdoing by Clearview, the Royal Commission has heard the insurer’s chief risk officer, Gregory Martin, detail how the firm breac...

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The practice of offering “downgraded” life insurance products has come under the spotlight at the Royal Commission, with Clearview questioned over its practice of offerin...

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Clearview’s targeting of particular demographics for its life/risk products has come under fire on the first day of the Royal insurance hearings, in regard to the insurer...

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Research from the Association of Superannuation Funds of Australia has reconfirmed that there is still a “significant disparity” between retirement incomes for men and wo...

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Glad to see the back of you Steve. You made financial more expensive, not more affordable as you claim, and presided ...

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Completely agree Peter. The definition of 'significant change is circumstances relevant to the scope of the advice' is s...

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Entireti has unveiled the new name for the AMP financial advice businesses that it acquired last year....

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Platinum Asset Management has announced co-chief investment officers Andrew Clifford and Clay Smolinski are to step down from their roles....

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Having sold off its advice division for a loss, AMP has reported a 43 per cent reduction in statutory net profit after tax in FY24, with the business now focusing on beco...

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