COMPLAINTS

Life/Risk

While only making up 2% of total complaints received by the Australian Financial Complaints Authority, life insurance complaint handling time has almost doubled in two ye...

image
Financial planning

Already making up a fraction of complaints, complaints about advisers have fallen 33% in the 2021/22 financial year so far, according to the Australian Financial Complain...

image
Financial planning

There is a strong likelihood that complaints regarding inappropriate advice will be resolved by agreement rather than a decision against the advisers, according to the Au...

image
Financial planning

Financial advisers only make up around 1.4% of complaints to the Australian Financial Complaints Authority, while life insurance is around 2%....

image
People & Products

Emma Curtis has been appointed as lead ombudsman for insurance and Suanne Russell as lead ombudsman for small business....

image
Financial planning

Financial advisers distrust the Australian Financial Complaints Authority because it is perceived to have ‘coached’ complainants and Treasury is being urged to investigat...

image
Financial planning

Detailed file notes are one of the biggest factors that can help defend financial planners against complaints and planners need to be innovative when managing their recor...

image
Policy & Regulation

The Federal Government has acted to initiate the scheduled review of the Australian Financial Complaints Authority but its terms of reference will not specifically touch ...

image
Policy & Regulation

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission has seen a “significant escalation” in complaints about unlicensed operators providing financial product advice witho...

image
Superannuation

Up to 20 complaints left unfinished by the final closure of the Superannuation Complaints Tribunal will need to be handled by the Australian Financial Complaints Authorit...

image
Financial planning

New data provided to a Parliamentary Committee had revealed the degree to which licensees are better offer resolving client remediation and other complaints via Internal ...

image
Financial planning

There were 1,332 complaints out of 84,500 against planners in the last financial year which the Australian Financial Complaints Authority says is “fantastic”....

image
Financial planning

A senior Australian Financial Complaints Authority ombudsman has acknowledged that financial advisers are doing it tough in a tricky environment and that the authority wi...

image
Superannuation

The Australian Financial Complaints Authority has been hit by a surge of complaints relating to hardship early release superannuation, with many based on superannuation f...

image
Financial planning

More than 600 complaints were in relation to superannuation and the delays in early release, according to the Australian Financial Complaints Authority....

image
sub-bgsidebar subscription

Never miss the latest news and developments in wealth management industry

MARKET INSIGHTS

Interesting. Would be good to know the details of the StrategyOne deal....

3 days 21 hours ago

It’s astonishing to see the FAAA now pushing for more advisers by courting "career changers" and international recruits,...

3 weeks 1 day ago

increased professionalism within the industry - shouldn't that say, FAR register almost halving in the last 24 months he...

4 weeks 1 day ago

Insignia Financial has made four appointments, including three who have joined from TAL, to lead strategy and innovation in its retirement solutions for the MLC brand....

2 weeks 3 days ago

A former Brisbane financial adviser has been charged with 26 counts of dishonest conduct regarding a failure to disclose he would receive substantial commission payments ...

2 days 19 hours ago

Pinnacle Investment Management has announced it will acquire strategic interests in two international fund managers for $142 million....

1 day 22 hours ago