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What the RC can teach us about trust: Deloitte

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 29 OCT 2018
One of the big four accounting and professional services firms is seizing the financial services Royal Commission as an opportunity to better understand how trust works in Australian banks. Launching its first trust index for Australia's banking ...

Enforceable undertakings are effective: Research

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 26 OCT 2018
Despite receiving a bad rap for being ineffective during the financial services Royal Commission, new research finds the majority of enforceable undertakings deter future misconduct. This is according to a joint study conducted by ASIC and the University ...

Mercer wins two super fund mandates

HARRISON WORLEY  |  TUESDAY, 16 OCT 2018
... end this year. It's another blow for AMP as it continues to deal with the fallout from the Financial Services Royal Commission. Mercer Australia managing director and chief executive Ben Walsh said the firm's scale and capability would help the fund ...

A question of ethics

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 11 OCT 2018
... groupthink that reinforces bad habits and much of the questionable conduct uncovered by the Financial Services Royal Commission could have been avoided if just one person had asked themselves the question. "The biggest thing that struck me was the lack ...

AMP defends charging dead clients

HARRISON WORLEY  |  THURSDAY, 4 OCT 2018
... its practice of charging premiums to dead life insurance customers in a submission to the financial services Royal Commission. The wealth manager continued to deduct life insurance premiums from a deceased customer, even after AMP has been notified of ...

Super funds call for grandfathering ban

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 27 SEP 2018
... sanctions on those that fail to act in the best interests of members. In its submission to the financial services Royal Commission, the Association of Superannuation Funds of Australia noted that trailing commissions paid to financial planners can provide ...

Give life code a chance, Loane tells Royal Commission

HARRISON WORLEY  |  FRIDAY, 21 SEP 2018
... handling in the Corporations Act to using "a sledgehammer to crack a nut." Appearing before the financial services Royal Commission on the final day of its Round Six hearings into insurance, Loane said the FSC would like the second iteration of its life ...

ClearView breached anti-hawking law 300k times

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 10 SEP 2018
The sixth round of the financial services Royal Commission heard ClearView's direct life insurance business breached anti-hawking provisions up to 303,000 times. The figure has ballooned from the 278,664 originally reported to the Commission, according ...

Trustees caught in a balancing act

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 6 SEP 2018
The financial services Royal Commission exposed substantial breaches of fiduciary duties that show superannuation trustees have to lift their game and improve governance standards, a legal expert says. Holding Redlich partner Paul Faure told the AIST ...

Linear pushes MGP into the red

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 3 SEP 2018
... the stockbroking and financial advisory market," he added. Sharp said the fallout from the financial services Royal Commission is expected to result in a continued movement of advisers from the big banks to non-aligned advisory firms. As an independent ...