FINANCIAL OMBUDSMAN SERVICE

Financial planning

FOS implements its ‘significant event response plan’ as it prepares for significant numbers of related disputes from scandals linked to the planning arms of CBA and Macqu...

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Financial planning

The Commonwealth Bank has moved to inject plaintiff law firms into its advice review processes....

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Financial planning

Regulator claims Macquarie Equities Limited (MEL) had “very poor” record keeping and lack of detail in its advice documents....

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Financial planning

FOS claims it will have eliminated its backlog of cases by 2015 but was struggling to get 22 financial services providers to pay more than $10 million in unpaid determina...

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Financial planning

The Chief Ombudsman has sought to refute claims that FOS is unaccountable and in urgent need of review....

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Financial planning

Allegations of “unsound and unreasonable” findings by the Financial Ombudsman Service are behind calls for an “urgent review” of the service....

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Financial planning

FOS releases consultation paper seeking input about raising limits at which it can hear disputes...

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Financial planning

Commbank repeats apology and outlines independent review process for impacted customers. ...

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Financial planning

ASIC should be subject to regular reviews while FOS should move to a higher award regime...

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Financial planning

The Financial Ombudsman Service (FOS) has apologised to a member of the service as part of the settlement of a case despite FOS winning the case. ...

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Financial planning

ASIC admits it targeted the big planning groups for shadow shopping because it thought it would make the most impact....

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Financial planning

Recent Victorian court case raise questions over scope and ability of FOS to make binding decisions...

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Financial planning

The Financial Ombudsman Service claims it will deliver on first round of changes to improve dispute resolution process...

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Financial planning

FOS will fast-track decisions, simplify processes and eliminate double-handling in dispute processes in response to its recent review. ...

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Editorial

If financial planners were given a choice between the model underpinning the Superannuation Complaints Tribunal and that underpinning the Financial Ombudsman Service, wha...

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