COMPLAINTS

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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Policy & Regulation

Financial planning firms should brace for an influx of legacy complaints in the wake of the Australian Securities and Investments Commission clearing the final regulatory...

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Financial planning

The Financial Planning Association has flagged to the Australian Financial Complaints Authority the high likelihood that professional indemnity insurers will refuse to co...

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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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Financial planning

Superannuation funds have been placed on notice about the dangers of their telephone consultants drifting into their area of specific personal advice, with a fund ordered...

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Life/Risk

In a message which will resonate with some life insurers, Australia’s general insurers have been warned against allowing outsourced service providers to handle complaints...

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Financial planning

The Australian Financial Complaints Authority reported it received over 13,000 phone enquiries in its first month of operation. ...

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Financial planning

The latest report of the Banking Code Compliance Monitoring Committee has revealed that the number of complaints relating to financial advice was barely discernible when ...

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Policy & Regulation

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission has issued a warning as credit representatives appear to be lagging on their obligations to join the Australian Finan...

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Financial planning

ANZ has confirmed that financial advisers reduce the number of complaints around life insurance at claims time....

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Financial planning

Financial services providers must clearly and explicitly explain to clients that they could seek assistance from FOS should the need arise to complain about a dispute....

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Editorial

The Government has commissioned a timely review of the external dispute resolution schemes covering financial services, but it should focus more on equity and effectivene...

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Policy & Regulation

ASIC deputy chairman, Peter Kell, has admitted that prior to issues around CommInsure, it had received few complaints about life insurance claims handling....

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Financial planning

Financial difficulty disputes declined by 12 per cent over the last 12 months despite the controversies engulfing the planning sector....

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