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AMP has reached an agreement to settle the shareholder class action brought by Komlotex in June 2018 following the Hayne royal commission for $110 million....
Features
The Australian Law Reform Commission’s inquiry into the simplification of financial services legislation is expansive, multi-phased and worthy of unpacking, Liam Cormican...
Policy & Regulation
The Federal Government has been accused of extraordinary and undemocratic legislative over-reach by trying to gain control of how superannuation funds invest on behalf of...
Financial planning
Caving to the demands of the US Chamber of Commerce to restrict Australian class action funding may deprive regular Australians of access to justice, according to Class A...
Life/Risk
The Financial Planning Association says the advocacy efforts of financial advisers on behalf of clients can often impact the dispute data collected by the Australian Prud...
Financial planning
Risk specialists, Australian Financial Risk Management have hit back at plaintiff law firm Maurice Blackburn suggesting it has criticised risks advisers on the basis of s...
Financial planning
Risk advisers need to explain why consumers can be worse off taking advised insurance when compared to those taking group insurance within superannuation, according to pl...
Life/Risk
Plaintiff law firm Maurice Blackburn says the major life insurers have been shown to have been persistently ignoring their own code of conduct by a report from the Life C...
Life/Risk
Those who seek their own coverage cannot assume they will end up with a product in their best interests, according to a law firm....
Superannuation
A leading plaintiff law firm has called for employers to be placed under a legal obligation to select the right default superannuation fund for their employees at the sam...
Superannuation
Former Colonial First State executive director, Linda Elkins may have left the company and become a partner at KPMG but she has been named in a class action filing....
Policy & Regulation
Consumers can expect improved justice and recourse should they be victims of wrongdoing by the financial services industry as the result of a Senate Committee report hand...
Life/Risk
A plaintiff law firm has claimed the Financial Services Council and the insurance sector has been dragged ‘kicking and screaming’ towards enforceable codes of conduct....
Life/Risk
Plaintiff law firm, Maurice Blackburn has labelled the Financial Services Council’s failed bid to have life/risk insurers allowed involvement in worker rehabilitation as ...
Life/Risk
The Joint Parliamentary Committee on Corporations and Financial Services has rebuffed an FSC proposal to allow life/risk insurers to participate in getting injured worker...
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Interesting. Would be good to know the details of the StrategyOne deal....
It’s astonishing to see the FAAA now pushing for more advisers by courting "career changers" and international recruits,...
increased professionalism within the industry - shouldn't that say, FAR register almost halving in the last 24 months he...