FEES FOR NO SERVICE

Financial planning

Centrepoint Alliance has shared details on the progress of fees for no service remediation, having conducted an assessment of its employed and self-employed advisers. ...

Financial planning

In an unprecedented move, the corporate regulator has launched multiple civil penalty proceedings again the bank for matters including fee-for-no-service for deceased cus...

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Financial planning

The Commonwealth Director of Public Prosecutions has determined that no charges should be brought to AMP Financial Planning for its conduct into the alleged fees-for-no-s...

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Financial planning

Six of Australia's largest banking and financial services institutions have offered a total of $1.05 billion in compensation, as at 30 June 2020, to customers who suffere...

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Policy & Regulation

A coalition of consumer groups has pointed to key changes to advice and life insurance resulting from the Royal Commission and insisted on no loopholes and no carve-outs....

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Financial planning

AMP Limited has yet to determine how it intends on handling its remediation obligations with respect to advisers who have left the company....

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Financial planning

AMP Limited acting chief executive, Mike Wilkins has confirmed the firm is facing more fees for no service remediation challenges after discovering new breaches as recent...

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Financial planning

NAB chief executive, Andrew Thorburn, has defended some fees for no service charged by the bank as a “process issue” rather than dishonesty, as he came under fire at the ...

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Superannuation

After months of doubt, AMP Limited has received confirmation that it has lost one of its largest corporate superannuation mandates – Australia Post....

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Financial planning

The Australian Banker’s Association has confirmed that the total cost of fee for no service remediation could exceed $1 billion....

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Life/Risk

AMP Limited has sought to rebut claims made during the Royal Commission that it engaged in misconduct in its deduction of superannuation fund members’ insurance premiums ...

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Policy & Regulation

The Royal Commission interim report has shone a light on the poor culture of licensees, particularly when it comes to charging fees for no service. ...

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Policy & Regulation

The Federal Treasurer, Josh Frydenberg, has cited fees for no service and the failures of the regulators as being among his Royal Commission take-outs....

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