AFCA

Financial planning

The actions of the investment committee at Dixon Advisory should be placed under greater scrutiny in the upcoming Senate inquiry, according to the FAAA. ...

Financial planning

United Global Capital complaints to AFCA have quadrupled since August and are highly likely to rise further as it retains membership for another six months....

Financial planning

The FAAA and AFCA are in disagreement regarding how much of an industry collapse, such as Dixon Advisory, relates to product failure and how much relates to advice. ...

Financial planning

The FAAA’s Phil Anderson believes the problem with Dixon Advisory is “much bigger than an advice issue” and the levy to pay for it should be expanded beyond the financial...

Financial planning

The Compensation Scheme of Last Resort says it has received over 200 claims for compensation relating to personal financial advice since its inception and detailed the sp...

Financial planning

ASIC has cancelled a Sydney AFSL for failing to pay a $64,000 AFCA determination related to inappropriate advice, which then had to be paid by the CSLR. ...

Financial planning

AFCA’s latest statistics have shed light on which of the major licensees recorded the most consumer complaints in the last financial year....

Financial planning

Just one of the nearly 50 systemic issues reported by AFCA to regulators in the second half of FY24 related to investments and advice, a report has uncovered....

Financial planning

With less than 5 per cent of Dixon Advisory complaints closed, AFCA has detailed how it is dealing with systemic issues, known as batch matters, through a consistent yet ...

Financial planning

AFCA has revealed to Money Management the number of Dixon Advisory complaints it has closed so far out of the more than 2,700 total complaints received....

Financial planning

AFCA has urged financial advice firms that when recommending a product to clients where it receives any benefits, advisers must go beyond merely disclosing conflicts of i...

Financial planning

Investment and advice complaints to AFCA dropped by over a quarter in FY24 but inappropriate advice remains the most prevalent complaint afflicting the sector....

Financial planning

A compliance expert has shared three tips that financial advisers can learn from the mistakes of Dixon Advisory, based on the firm's AFCA determinations. ...

Financial planning

AFCA has told a parliamentary joint committee that it is insufficient for financial advisers to not thoroughly check whether a person qualifies as a wholesale investor gi...

Financial planning

The fallout from Dixon Advisory and effect on the professional indemnity insurance market could have been far worse, according to Numerisk’s Richard Silberman, if the pro...

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