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Superannuation

A superannuation fund has been censured and ordered to compensate a member for unduly delaying a rollover to his self-managed superannuation fund....

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Financial planning

Superannuation funds have been placed on notice about the dangers of their telephone consultants drifting into their area of specific personal advice, with a fund ordered...

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Superannuation

The conflicted nature of advice fees deducted from the accounts of members of bank-owned superannuation funds have been brought into question by a former member of the Su...

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Financial planning

The Superannuation Complaints Tribunal has broken new ground by ordering a superannuation fund to reimburse nearly 10 years of fees deducted from a member’s account for a...

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Policy & Regulation

The trade union representing Superannuation Complaints Tribunal personnel claims it is wrong to wrap superannuation industry complaints into a body tasked with dealing wi...

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Superannuation

Under-funding of the Superannuation Complaints Tribunal means it could still be clearing a backlog up to four years after the establishment of the Australian Financial C...

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Editorial

Mike Taylor writes that a broad cross-section of the financial services industry has voiced its concerns about a compensation scheme of last resort but few appear to be l...

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Superannuation

A superannuation fund member who relied on a financial planner’s slideshow to pursue an insurance claim has been told to pursue the planner, not the fund....

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Editorial

Mike Taylor writes that the Australian Securities and Investments Commission was fundamental to the changes being wrought on the financial services external dispute resol...

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Superannuation

The Superannuation Complaints Tribunal has confirmed that super fund rollover processes produce inevitable winners and losers....

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Life/Risk

ASIC has examined 60,000 documents as part of its CommInsure investigation and will deliver its findings by the end of the month....

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Policy & Regulation

While the Government and FOS have supported the single ombudsman scheme, the CIO has rejected the recommendation by calling it ‘vexing’....

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Financial planning

The Government has signalled its support for the recommendations of the special panel reviewing financial services external dispute resolution for a single body amalgamat...

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Superannuation

Highly complex claims processes are forcing superannuation fund members to seek lawyer assistance in making insurance claims....

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Superannuation

Superannuation funds put a strong argument to the Government for rejecting the FOS model of external dispute resolution and retaining the Superannuation Complaints Tribun...

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Completely agree Peter. The definition of 'significant change is circumstances relevant to the scope of the advice' is s...

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This verdict highlights something deeply wrong and rotten at the heart of the FSCP. We are witnessing a heavy-handed, op...

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

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SuperRatings has shared the median estimated return for balanced superannuation funds for the calendar year 2024, finding the year achieved “strong and consistent positiv...

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Original bidder Bain Capital, which saw its first offer rejected in December, has returned with a revised bid for Insignia Financial....

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The FAAA has secured CSLR-related documents under the FOI process, after an extended four-month wait, which show little analysis was done on how the scheme’s cost would a...

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