COMPLAINTS

Financial planning

Detailed file notes are one of the biggest factors that can help defend financial planners against complaints and planners need to be innovative when managing their recor...

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Policy & Regulation

The Federal Government has acted to initiate the scheduled review of the Australian Financial Complaints Authority but its terms of reference will not specifically touch ...

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Policy & Regulation

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission has seen a “significant escalation” in complaints about unlicensed operators providing financial product advice witho...

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Superannuation

Up to 20 complaints left unfinished by the final closure of the Superannuation Complaints Tribunal will need to be handled by the Australian Financial Complaints Authorit...

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Financial planning

New data provided to a Parliamentary Committee had revealed the degree to which licensees are better offer resolving client remediation and other complaints via Internal ...

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Financial planning

There were 1,332 complaints out of 84,500 against planners in the last financial year which the Australian Financial Complaints Authority says is “fantastic”....

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Financial planning

A senior Australian Financial Complaints Authority ombudsman has acknowledged that financial advisers are doing it tough in a tricky environment and that the authority wi...

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Superannuation

The Australian Financial Complaints Authority has been hit by a surge of complaints relating to hardship early release superannuation, with many based on superannuation f...

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Financial planning

More than 600 complaints were in relation to superannuation and the delays in early release, according to the Australian Financial Complaints Authority....

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Financial planning

Financial firms will now have 30 days to respond when the Australian Financial Complaints Authority notifies them of a complaint....

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Financial planning

There has been no shortage of consumers and small businesses looking to file legacy complaints with the Australian Financial Complaints Authority, with data suggesting le...

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People & Products

Datacube will allow consumers and organisations to track results of complaints against financial firms by the Australian Financial Complaints Authority....

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Financial planning

The Association of Financial Advisers has recommended to the Australian Securities and Investments Commission that licensees be able to ‘opt-in’ to the recognition of cli...

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Financial planning

The Financial Planning Association has warned the Australian Securities and Investments Commission of the significant problem associated with allowing complaints against ...

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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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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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