AUSTRALIAN FINANCIAL COMPLAINTS AUTHORITY

Financial planning

Many of the financial advice businesses named by the Australian Financial Complaints Authority as having failed to pay complaint-related charges are already out of busine...

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Policy & Regulation

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission has changed the rules to allow the Australian Financial Complaints Authority to name firms....

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People & Products

The Australian Financial Complaints Authority (AFCA) has appointed Dr June Smith as deputy chief ombudsman, and Evelyn Halls as lead ombudsman banking and finance....

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Financial planning

The private contractual nature of Buyer of Last Resort arrangements has served to leave the major planning organisations on the sidelines as advisers see their pay-outs e...

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Policy & Regulation

The Australian Financial Complaints Authority has been urged to identify the firms against which complaints are being made as well as their suppliers such as insurance co...

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Financial planning

As financial planning firms worry about whether their professional indemnity insurance will cover legacy complaints, the Australian Securities and Investments Commission ...

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Financial planning

Changes made to the Australian Financial Complaints Authority following the Hayne Royal Commission are ‘flawed’ according to legal firm Creevey Russell Lawyers. ...

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Policy & Regulation

Superannuation funds have warned that the complexity of the superannuation system is such that the Australian Financial Complaints Authority should not judge them on the ...

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Financial planning

The Australian Financial Complaints Authority has announced it is recruiting for a number of newly-created senior roles....

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Financial planning

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) has suspended the licence of Sydney-based Australasia Wealth Services Management (ASWM) for failing to meet re...

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Financial planning

The Association of Financial Advisers has accused the Government of unliterally and retrospectively seeking to alter the contract which exists between licensees and the A...

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Financial planning

The Financial Planning Association has warned the Australian Financial Complaints Authority of the risk of planners facing double jeopardy if it reopens matters already d...

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Financial planning

The Financial Planning Association has warned the Australian Financial Complaints Authority of significant consequences if professional indemnity insurance cover does not...

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Policy & Regulation

Consumers can expect improved justice and recourse should they be victims of wrongdoing by the financial services industry as the result of a Senate Committee report hand...

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Policy & Regulation

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission has broken new ground cancelling the licenses of two accounting firms for failing to obtain membership of the Austral...

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