SUPERANNUATION COMPLAINTS TRIBUNAL

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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Superannuation

A roundtable of superannuation executives has lamented the cost and complexity being injected by “ambulance chaser” lawyers....

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Superannuation

The SCT has reported a surge in conciliation work around super complaints and has urged trustees and insurers to get their acts together. ...

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Editorial

There exists plenty of evidence that the External Dispute Resolution regime and its interplay with PI cover is proving problematic for the financial planning industry. Mi...

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Superannuation

Taking superannuation disputes to court often results in a quicker resolution than leaving it to the Superannuation Complaints Tribunal, lawyer says....

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Superannuation

First it was financial advice, now lawyers are targeting superannuation disputes....

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Life/Risk

New APRA draft places expectations on group insurers about how they handle claims....

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Superannuation

ASFA calls for the Superannuation Complaints Tribunal to be removed from ASIC oversight....

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Financial planning

Super body claims ASIC approach is non-collaborative and in need or review. ...

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Editorial

A close reading of the submissions so far lodged with the Senate Committee investigating the operations of ASIC suggests the newly-elected Abbott Government will be right...

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Editorial

The Federal Treasurer, Joe Hockey, has signalled a “son of Wallis” review of the Australian financial system and, as Mike Taylor writes, the industry is already starting ...

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Superannuation

MLC's Peter Hogan outlines the key differences between SMSFs and other superannuation funds from an estate planning perspective. ...

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Superannuation

The Superannuation Complaints Tribunal has acknowledged the existence of a backlog of complaints....

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Superannuation

Small businesses will have recourse to the Superannuation Complaints Tribunal as well as other external disputes resolution services under changes announced by the Federa...

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Superannuation

Small business will be able to access the Superannuation Complaints Tribunal under Government changes. ...

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