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FSC extends life code consultation deadline

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 24 JAN 2019
The Financial Services Council is extending the consultation period for the second iteration of its life code until 31 January 2019. The draft FSC Life Insurance Code of Practice was first released for consultation in November 2018, proposing 30 changes ...

NSW adviser banned for 25 years

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 22 JAN 2019
The Federal Court has handed down a 25-year ban to a New South Wales financial adviser and wound up two companies related to him following an ASIC investigation. Starting in 2008, Graeme Walter Miller advised SMSFs and other clients of CFS Private Wealth ...

ASIC seeks new default super partner

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 18 JAN 2019
ASIC is on the hunt for a new default superannuation fund for employees but smaller funds need not bother applying. In tender documents the corporate regulator specified it will only consider bids made by super funds with at least $10 billion in assets ...

ASIC suspends online broker AFSL

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 15 JAN 2019
... continues have arrangements for compensating retail clients and to hold professional indemnity insurance cover. Halifax can request the Administrative Appeals Tribunal to review ASIC's decision. Ferrier Hodgson was appointed as joint voluntary administrators ...

TAL and Zurich lead inflows, CommInsure lags: Strategic Insights

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 JAN 2019
Latest figures from research group Strategic Insights show mixed results for the country's largest insurers. Overall, the life insurance sector grew steadily by 1.7% year-on-year and reached $16.5 billion. However, it was a mixed result for the ...

Blue Sky appoints CFO

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 7 JAN 2019
Blue Sky Alternative Investments is still searching for a chief executive and a chief risk officer, but it begins 2019 with a new chief financial officer as it reboots its executive lineup. Elizabeth Walker starts as Blue Sky Alternative Investments' ...

Ten stories that defined the Royal Commission

HARRISON WORLEY  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 DEC 2018
... appearance that saw it revealed as the only large scale financial advice licensee to decline the Royal Commission's request for assistance in identifying instances of misconduct, Dover Financial Advisers shocked the industry when it shut-down in ...

ASIC goes to court seeking AMP documents

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 17 DEC 2018
ASIC is seeking an order from the Federal Court to compel Clayton Utz to produce AMP documents that have been withheld from the corporate regulator to date. In October, ASIC issued a notice to Clayton Utz asking it to produce certain documents, as it ...

Centrepoint pulls out of NEOS Life

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 13 DEC 2018
Centrepoint Alliance will no longer back life insurance startup NEOS Life, requesting its investment be repaid in full sooner than originally agreed to. In line with its recent strategy refresh, a review of Centrepoint's assets and interests determined ...

Superannuation fund introduces fee changes

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 13 DEC 2018
... investment options online without incurring a $50 switch fee. The switching timeframe is effective one business day from the request date (it previously took five business days) or the business date nominated by the member. The $160 compassionate grounds ...