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CBA pleads guilty to selling junk insurance

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  MONDAY, 1 NOV 2021
Commonwealth Bank pleaded guilty to 30 criminal charges relating to misselling consumer credit insurance. The charges were brought by ASIC and relate to CBA's promotion and sale of CreditCard Plus and Loan Protection policies as an add-on insurance ...

ASIC sues former Freedom Insurance staff

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 25 OCT 2021
A former Freedom Insurance director and consultant will head to Federal Court for their alleged involvement in aggressive sales tactics. ASIC has commenced civil penalty proceedings against former Freedom Insurance managing director of Keith Cohen and ...

CFS fined $20m over super misconduct

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 19 OCT 2021
Colonial First State will pay $20 million for misleading members in its FirstChoice Fund. The fine follows the court's decision in September that CFS had misled members on almost 13,000 regarding investment decisions, possibly deterring them from ...

Resolution Capital adds infrastructure fund

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 5 OCT 2021
The Pinnacle boutique is celebrating the launch of its new global listed infrastructure offering. The Resolution Capital Global Listed Infrastructure Fund sees Resolution Capital's stable of funds expanded to seven and is led by portfolio managers ...

Advice group appoints chief executive

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 28 SEP 2021
A boutique financial advice group has named a new chief executive to take over in October, promoting from within. Profile Financial Services has appointed Lena Ridley as its new chief, replacing interim chief executive Peter Coleman. Ridley is currently ...

AFA Foundation supports thousands in need

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 SEP 2021
In the face of COVID-19, the AFA Foundation raised just shy of $40,000 in FY21, helping 13 charities in the process. Last financial year, the AFA Foundation received 23 applications for grants and selected nine recipients in addition to its four charity ...

NAB fined $18.5m over misleading fee disclosure

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 26 AUG 2021
The big four bank has been ordered by the Federal Court to pay $18.5 million for misleading fee disclosure statements in relation to personal financial advice, in what is the first penalty imposed by the court for such failures. The court found NAB ...

RI Advice failed oversight obligations: Court

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 2 AUG 2021
The Federal Court found that RI Advice Group's failure to provide rigorous oversight over a former financial adviser resulted in bad advice to consumer detriment. The court said the licensee failed to take reasonable steps to ensure that its former ...

BTFM, Asgard Capital fined $3m

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 26 JUL 2021
The Federal Court will force BT Funds Management and Asgard Capital Management to pay $1.5 million each for charging fees for no service and making misleading statements. Between September 2014 and August 2017, the court found that the companies harmed ...

Significant drop in charitable giving

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  FRIDAY, 9 JUL 2021
According to the inaugural JBWere NAB Charitable Giving Index, Australians are giving less - possibly due to the pandemic. The dramatic fall in giving led to an overall decrease in donations by 16% in the six months to December 2020, taking giving back ...