AFCA

Financial planning

Former clients of Dixon Advisory and Superannuation Services have been urged to make a complaint as soon as possible as they may be eligible for compensation under a pote...

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Financial planning

The latest data on financial advice complaints, which shows a fall of over 50% in the past year, indicates the improved quality of financial advice, according to the Fina...

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Financial planning

The Australian Financial Complaints Authority is working on a ‘transformation project’ to offer guidance for firms on its approach and nature of systemic issues, an issue...

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People & Products

The Australian Financial Complaints Authority has appointed Delia Rickard to the board for a three-year term....

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Editorial

It was good news for advisers in the latest Australian Financial Complaints Authority (AFCA) data for the past year with the advice sector seeing a decline in complaints ...

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Financial planning

Complaints about inappropriate advice have more than halved in the last financial year, according to the Australian Financial Complaints Authority, while those about fail...

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People & Products

The Australian Financial Complaints Authority has made two changes to leadership of its investment and advice and banking and finance departments....

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Financial planning

The financial advice profession needs more certainty on how the Australian Financial Complaints Authority will judge a complaint, says the Association of Financial Planne...

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Financial planning

The proposed AFCA user-pays funding model will be introduced from 1 July with a few improvements following industry feedback while the superannuation levy will be abolish...

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Features

Alexandra Cain writes that the outcome of the Federal election could have an effect on funding of the Compensation Scheme of Last Resort....

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Tools & guides

There are specific requirements that only apply to trustees of self-managed superannuation funds, writes Tim Howard, including the allocation in their investment strategy...

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Financial planning

Early merit assessments of complaints are now a permanent feature of the Australian Financial Complaints Authority’s process following a pilot program....

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Financial planning

The post-election Government will need to ensure the Compensation Scheme of Last Resort does not cost more to run than the amounts of compensation involved, according to ...

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Financial planning

The Financial Planning Association of Australia has welcomed the announcement by the Australian Financial Complaints Authority about proposed changes to its funding model...

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Financial planning

The proposed user-pays model from the Australian Financial Complaints Authority followed industry feedback and would see 98% of investment and advice members pay only a $...

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