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Licensee faces hefty remediation bill

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 SEP 2019
... look at 4,269 advice files from 279 ClearView advisers. As a result, 215 clients were offered $730,138 in financial compensation and 21 clients received non-financial remediation through reissued advice documents and fee disclosures. A ClearView spokesperson ...

Suncorp pays $1.4m remediation bill

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 3 SEP 2019
... would exit the Guardian Advice business, but committed to ASIC to see through the remediation program and fund the compensation. In addition, Suncorp also compensated clients who may have been at risk of having received poor advice from 'high-risk' advisers ...

Advice firm defrauds retired NFL players

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 3 SEP 2019
... advice firm that defrauded former professional NFL players who had joined a class action against the league seeking compensation for brain injuries suffered during their careers. Tallahassee-based Cambridge Capital Group Advisors and its two former principals ...

YBR to remediate wealth clients

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 30 AUG 2019
... a breach of the Corporations Act has occurred and where the appropriate remediation action may require financial compensation," latest statutory accounts read. Overall, YBR made a net loss after tax of $37.39 million for FY19, the majority of which ($33.95m) ...

IOOF advice remediation hits $235m

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 26 AUG 2019
... incidents of inappropriate advice or instances of fees for no service (or no evidence of service). "Where client compensation is probable and able to be reliably estimated, provisions have been taken. Compensation costs include return of service fees ...

Peak bodies respond to government roadmap

KRISTI CHENG  |  TUESDAY, 20 AUG 2019
... from the council, however, with the FSC naming the new disciplinary system for financial advisers, as well as the compensation scheme of last resort as recommendation it "believes require further discussion with the government". The final report of the ...

ANZ scraps individual bonuses

HARRISON WORLEY  |  TUESDAY, 6 AUG 2019
... remunerated "in accordance with regulatory requirements." ANZ said the changes would not impact the bank's total spend on compensation but rather its mix between fixed and variable remuneration, in an effort to reduce the "negative impact" an over emphasis ...

ASIC reveals advice remediation progress

HARRISON WORLEY  |  THURSDAY, 1 AUG 2019
... equivalent of 573 full-time staff working on its program of remediation, with the bank not expecting to clear its compensation bill until December 2022. As part of the review, ASIC noted a single adviser from NAB was responsible for more than $14 million ...

Lloyds, pension fund pay $250m settlement

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 26 JUL 2019
Lloyds Banking Group will pay $250 million in compensation to Standard Life Aberdeen following its attempt to pull a $186 billion mandate in February 2018. Lloyds Banking Group and its subsidiary, Scottish Widows, reached a final settlement with Standard ...

APRA proposes new remuneration standard

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 23 JUL 2019
... the principles, standards and guidance set out in the Financial Stability Board's publications concerning sound compensation principles and practices. Recommendation 5.3 suggests APRA-regulated entities design remuneration systems to encourage sound ...