Newspaper icon
The latest issue of Financial Standard now available as an e-newspaper
READ NOW

Search Results

Showing 91 - 100 of 2437 results for "Claims"

Clime gains ground on culture, business model reset

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 3 OCT 2025
... executive in July 2024. Baragwanath began with the sale of Madison Financial Group to Infocus. "That was because there were big claims risks from the licence. There would be costs on the licence, it never made money when it was bought out of receivership ...

ASIC sues Fiducian for ESG failures

ELIZA BAVIN  |  FRIDAY, 3 OCT 2025
... fund," Court said. "We will allege FIMSL took a perfunctory approach to its oversight of the fund, attracting investors with claims it made no effort to validate, and in failing to independently monitor investments in the underlying funds to ensure they ...

Prime Super recruits product veteran

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 2 OCT 2025
... specialist contract roles at AMP and Russell Investments. The second hire, Stephen Jones has been appointed as insurance claims and reporting specialist bringing more than two decades of expertise in complex claims management, complaints resolution and ...

MUFG 'sincerely apologises' to Cbus over claim delays

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 OCT 2025
... have reached a settlement relating to "unacceptable delays" in the processing and payment of death benefit and insurance claims made by Cbus members and claimants. MUFG said it "sincerely apologises to Cbus and its members, their families and claimants". ...

Explosive rise in claims drives new TPD solution for Acenda

MATTHEW WAI  |  TUESDAY, 30 SEP 2025
... has launched a new insurance benefit, Total Permanent Disability (TPD) Severity, in response to a significant surge in claims, particularly for mental health and musculoskeletal conditions. According to the life insurer, there was a 166% increase in ...

CSLR publishes paid claims details

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 26 SEP 2025
... advice, with close to $37 million so far paid to Dixon Advisory and Superannuation Services clients. This is followed by 61 claims paid to clients of MyPlanner Australia totalling $1.8 million. MyPlanner went bust in 2020. The third highest number of ...

Feature: Digital advice | Sleeping giant

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 26 SEP 2025
... place on delivering digital advice. Tightening cybersecurity controls is high on the list, as is sorting out death benefit claims that administrators and ultimately trustees don't have a grip on. "It's no good offering digital advice if it's ...

Macquarie to pay Shield victims in full

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 25 SEP 2025
... for failing to exercise the degree of care and diligence expected of a super trustee. Equity Trustees vowed to fight the claims, saying it believes it acted in line with its fiduciary duties and obligations. About a month later, Equity Trustees slashed ...

Federal court slams director for 'fanciful' asset valuation

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 23 SEP 2025
... the period. The court also found that Hodgson and MacroLend engaged in very serious misleading or deceptive conduct in claims made in material provided to investors for investments in another company in the Paladin Group, Kradle Software. Hodgson and ...

Former staffer sues ASX, Lofthouse over bullying

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 16 SEP 2025
... Standard reached out to legal representatives for both Halstead and Lofthouse for comment. According to reporting, Halstead claims he warned the market operator in 2015 and 2017 about issues with testing and engineering architecture for the replacement ...