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Australian Charities and Not-for-Profits Commission assistant commissioner David Locke has been named as the new chief ombudsman and CEO of the Australian Financial Compl...

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Financial planning

The Association of Financial Advisers has argued that decisions by the newly-established Australian Financial Complaints Authority should be capable of both review and re...

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Policy & Regulation

The regulator has said it would give financial firms, including super trustees, until 1 July 2019 to update mandatory disclosure documents and periodic statements with th...

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Policy & Regulation

Sydney-based planner, Claire Mackay has been included in the inaugural board of the new Australian Financial Complaints Authority....

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Financial planning

The Prime Minister, Malcolm Turnbull has admitted to making a political mistake in not acting sooner to call the Royal Commission into Misconduct in the Banking, Superann...

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Policy & Regulation

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission has been urged not to allow the newly-formed Australian Financial Complaints Authority to name and shame relatively l...

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Editorial

The recent release of the Parliamentary Joint Committee on Corporations and Financial Services inquiry report into the Life Insurance industry makes clear that planners h...

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Financial planning

The Minister for Revenue and Financial Services, Kelly O’Dwyer, said the Australian Financial Complaints Authority would be ready to receive disputes by 1 November 2018. ...

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Policy & Regulation

Liberal Party stalwart and former party cabinet member, Helen Coonan, has been appointed by the Turnbull Government to be the inaugural chair of the Australian Financial ...

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Policy & Regulation

The major backers of establishing an Australian Financial Complaints Authority have welcomed passage of the necessary legislation through the Parliament....

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Policy & Regulation

The Australian Financial Complaints Authority will come into being next year following the passage of the necessary legislation through the Senate with minor amendments....

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Policy & Regulation

The implications of the Royal Commission into the Banking and Financial Services Industry are such that the Government should shelve plans to establish the Australian Fin...

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Financial planning

Moves to increase monetary claim limits under the new Australian Financial Complaints Authority regime have prompted fears of more PI insurer exits from the financial pla...

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Policy & Regulation

The Federal Government has been warned against rushing the implementation of its new financial services external dispute resolution regime amid claims of shortened consul...

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Policy & Regulation

The Government’s Australian Financial Complaints Authority legislation has been thrown into doubt by the citizenship dramas which impacted National Party leader, Barnaby ...

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