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Westpac fined $1.5m for mis-selling insurance

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  FRIDAY, 8 APR 2022
... insurance." She also warned that under the new penalty regime ASIC would seek significantly increased penalties for misconduct related to the mis-selling of consumer credit insurance products. Justice Katzman believed the issued penalty was appropriate ...

GAM loses insto mandate

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 31 MAR 2022
... has disclosed the loss of a substantial institutional mandate and, in a separate matter, seen the details of a 2018 misconduct investigation aired by the UK regulator. Overnight GAM International announced an unnamed institutional client is withdrawing ...

Regulators fret over hobby traders

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 MAR 2022
... experience indicates that a flexible and creative use of regulatory tools is important in acting quickly to disrupt misconduct. We encourage a broad range of stakeholders - including retail investors, financial consumers, and market participants - to ...

ASIC consults on FSCP sittings

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 1 MAR 2022
... seeking feedback on how and when the Financial Services and Credit Panel should convene when addressing financial adviser misconduct. Under the newly released Consultation Paper 359 Update to RG 263 Financial Services and Credit Panel, the corporate ...

Aware Super advice arm to pay $20m fine

CHLOE WALKER  |  FRIDAY, 18 FEB 2022
... conduct was serious and systematic. His Honour also highlighted the large number of Aware FS customers affected by this misconduct, noting that remediation of $105 million for this and related conduct has been paid. "Aware FS charged fees to tens of ...

CSLR will not fully protect investors

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 FEB 2022
... CSLR's jurisdiction to reflect the remit of the Australian Financial Complaints Authority. "Victims of financial misconduct who have received a determination from AFCA deserve access to compensation if their determination goes unpaid. In its current ...

NAB tops bad advice compensation bill

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 15 FEB 2022
... NAB Financial Planning and NAB Private Wealth have remediated most of this amount with respect to fees for no service misconduct, NAB's former subsidiaries have not. According to ASIC's latest compensation tally, Apogee Financial Planning, Godfrey ...

FSCP panel members named

CHLOE WALKER  |  TUESDAY, 15 FEB 2022
... law, economics, accounting, taxation and credit activities and credit services," Hume said. "Financial advisers' misconduct will therefore be assessed and sanctioned by their peers, driving further improvements in the industry."

AFA opposes clean record requirement

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 3 FEB 2022
... pathway," the AFA said. "Sanctions could arise as a result of less material matters and in circumstances where the misconduct was entirely unintentional." Highlighting results from its own survey of members, the AFA's submission shows 79.8% of respondents ...

Inquiry criticises gaps in CSLR

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 31 JAN 2022
... schemes, funeral insurance policies and debt management firms. "Ultimately, this scheme is about who bears the costs of misconduct in the system, and, unless the parliament improves the scheme proposed by the government, we'll continue to see individuals ...