If financial planners were given a choice between the model underpinning the Superannuation Complaints Tribunal and that underpinning the Financial Ombudsman Service, wha...
A roundtable of superannuation executives has lamented the cost and complexity being injected by “ambulance chaser” lawyers....
The SCT has reported a surge in conciliation work around super complaints and has urged trustees and insurers to get their acts together. ...
There exists plenty of evidence that the External Dispute Resolution regime and its interplay with PI cover is proving problematic for the financial planning industry. Mi...
Taking superannuation disputes to court often results in a quicker resolution than leaving it to the Superannuation Complaints Tribunal, lawyer says....
First it was financial advice, now lawyers are targeting superannuation disputes....
New APRA draft places expectations on group insurers about how they handle claims....
ASFA calls for the Superannuation Complaints Tribunal to be removed from ASIC oversight....
Super body claims ASIC approach is non-collaborative and in need or review. ...
A close reading of the submissions so far lodged with the Senate Committee investigating the operations of ASIC suggests the newly-elected Abbott Government will be right...
The Federal Treasurer, Joe Hockey, has signalled a “son of Wallis” review of the Australian financial system and, as Mike Taylor writes, the industry is already starting ...
MLC's Peter Hogan outlines the key differences between SMSFs and other superannuation funds from an estate planning perspective. ...
The Superannuation Complaints Tribunal has acknowledged the existence of a backlog of complaints....
Small businesses will have recourse to the Superannuation Complaints Tribunal as well as other external disputes resolution services under changes announced by the Federa...
Small business will be able to access the Superannuation Complaints Tribunal under Government changes. ...
This verdict highlights something deeply wrong and rotten at the heart of the FSCP. We are witnessing a heavy-handed, op...
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,...