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TAL hired private investigator to follow claimant: Royal Commission

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 13 SEP 2018
TAL went to great lengths to get out of paying insurance claims to a nurse which involved hiring a private investigator who followed her around the country, the Royal Commission heard today. Newly-appointed TAL general manager of claims Loraine van ...

ASIC marks AFCA milestone

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 13 SEP 2018
... processes applied to all complaints, including superannuation complaints. It also approved the independent assessor terms of reference; a person or business directly affected by how AFCA deals with a complaint can complain to the independent assessor. ...

CommInsure misled FOS: Royal Commission

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 13 SEP 2018
... CMLA failed to be open and transparent in its dealing with FOS and as a result, did not comply with FOS' terms of reference or ASIC regulatory guide 139, which explains what's expected of parties involved in a dispute resolution process. Troup ...

SMSFs too conservative: Poll

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 27 AUG 2018
... years. SuperGuard 360 shows in the 12 months to June 2018, the SMSF sector as a whole, as represented by the SG360 SMSF Reference Index, returned 9.7% before fees and tax. The SG360 Default Index, which is based on MySuper returns, returned 9%. Our latest ...

NAB initially under-reported remediation bill to ASIC

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 13 AUG 2018
... to Tanzer in October 2016. "Secondly, in relation to the SWIFT and Encompass matter...in our minds there was no cross-reference between [ASIC's] request for the update to the matter relating 108,000 customers and Mr Tanzer," Hagger said. Earlier in the ...

Chief economist update: BOJ to stop throwing good money after bad?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 24 JUL 2018
... Nikkei-225 index dropped by 1.3%. If I remember correctly, it was only about three months ago that the BOJ dropped the timing reference as to when it expects to reach its inflation target because consequent exit speculations that these trigger negate ...

Dover exit renews self-licensing calls

ALEX BURKE  |  MONDAY, 25 JUN 2018
... those 400 advisers will go, and ASIC has warned prospective licensees that they will need to "get audit reports and/or a reference from the licensee before Dover, and/or do other assessments of the person's competence." On the institutional side, with ...

Advice and stock broking firm fined $35k

HARRISON WORLEY  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 JUN 2018
An advice and stockbroking firm offering services to institutional and private wealth investors has copped a $35,000 fine to comply with an infringement notice served by the markets disciplinary panel. The markets and disciplinary panel believed Wilsons ...

ASIC issues warning over Dover advisers

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 JUN 2018
... background checks. "When hiring a new adviser ASIC suggests that, at a minimum, licensees receive audit reports and/or reference checks from the previous licensee. In the case of ex-Dover advisers, you should get audit reports and/or a reference from ...

AFA criticises draft FASEA standard

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 8 JUN 2018
... with licensees and important processes such as the management of terminations and the quality of processes to undertake reference checking for new advisers. "This Code seems to have been structured on the basis that all the current issues can be addressed ...