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Risk, compliance salaries soar: Data

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 1 FEB 2022
... are a hot commodity in 2022, as data shows entry-level salaries having increased by a whopping 66% since the Royal Commission. According to Kaizen Recruitment, this year continues to see upward pressure on salaries in the risk and compliance space. While ...

Inquiry criticises gaps in CSLR

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 31 JAN 2022
... to recover from a significant loss, bearing the cost of misconduct, as we saw in the years leading up to the royal commission," he said. Limiting the scope of the CSLR to the financial advice and specific sub-sectors has also been widely slammed as advisers ...

Quality of Advice must consider digital: Ignition

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  MONDAY, 31 JAN 2022
... enable the provision of high quality, accessible and affordable financial advice for retail investors". "Since the Royal Commission, these goals have been contradictions in terms - the quality of advice may have improved, but accessibility and affordability ...

FSC names acting chief executive

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 16 DEC 2021
... Passport, two Life Insurance Codes and the Stewardship Code for fund managers. Loane was grilled at the Hayne Royal Commission where she struggled to answer basic questions about the dodgy sales practices of life insurers.

Labor pledges calm in superannuation

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 DEC 2021
... Highlighting the conflicts on interests that exist in vertically integrated organisations as exposed by the Hayne Royal Commission, Jones said it would be naive to think that this only exists with advisers attached to retail funds. Hume agreed, saying ...

De Ferrari returns to Credit Suisse

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 14 DEC 2021
... Suisse veteran took the reins at AMP on 1 December 2018 as the firm grappled with the fallout from the Hayne Royal Commission. De Ferrari was hired on a rolling contract with either party being able to terminate on six months' notice. Alexis George ...

Longo's ASIC less aggressive: Report

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  FRIDAY, 10 DEC 2021
Despite a flood of litigation following the Royal Commission, a new report from Herbert Smith Freehills says Joe Longo's ASIC is taking a less aggressive enforcement approach than its contemporaries. Herbert Smith Freehills' Global Financial Services ...

ASIC sues ANZ in final civil RC case

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 9 DEC 2021
... 'Breakfree' packages in conduct dating back more than two decades. In what is the last investigation to come out of the Royal Commission, ASIC alleges that between the mid-1990s and September 2021, ANZ failed to provide certain benefits. These ...

Avanteos faces criminal charges over deceased super members

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 DEC 2021
... so. Avanteos has remediated all affected customers. Avanteos's conduct was the subject of evidence given at the Royal Commission in the context of fee for no service conduct in the financial sector. The maximum penalty for each offence, which occurred ...

Backlash after 'unprecedented' ASIC action against Westpac

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  THURSDAY, 2 DEC 2021
... junk insurance. "Customers who trusted the big banks were ripped off and continue to be out of pocket despite a Royal Commission and numerous ASIC investigations which found Westpac's behaviour was reprehensible," Paull said. "In terms of junk insurance ...