The Government has confirmed that deregistering a trade union is likely to have little impact on the make-up of industry superannuation fund boards....

The Australian Prudential Regulation Authority has admitted that some MySuper products are falling short and may not be suitable as default funds....

The Commonwealth Bank has reinforced the fact that it has self-reported the problems around advice clients being billed for advice they did not receive amid the high-prof...

Industry Super Australia wants those firms guilty of not paying in line with FOS determinations to be named and shamed....

ASIC has confirmed it will be relying on professional associations to administer planner codes of conduct with the ultimate sanction being a planner’s loss of membership ...

The chief ombudsman, Shane Tregellis, has said the Financial Ombudsman Service is never reluctant to call on the expertise of planners to help in dealing with disputes....

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission is perceived as diverting funding away from external dispute resolution towards its own regulatory agenda, according ...

Mike Taylor writes that ASIC must deal in the complex realities of insurance claims handling, not the headline-making perceptions....

APRA is considering whether the whistleblowing provisions of the Life Insurance Act were adhered to in the CommInsure claims handling controversy....

Life insurers who decline up to 37 per cent of TPD claims should have been named by ASIC, according to Maurice Blackburn Lawyers....

Under investigation by ASIC, CommInsure has paid claims totalling $2.5 million after updating its definitions....

ASIC has delivered life insurers are relatively clean bill of health on claims handling but with significant caveats, particularly around TPD....

Superannuation funds put a strong argument to the Government for rejecting the FOS model of external dispute resolution and retaining the Superannuation Complaints Tribun...

The Federal Opposition may be painting the Parliamentary Committee inquiry into the banking industry as a damp squib but the Australian Bankers’ Association is accentuati...