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Life insurance complaints down: FOS

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 6 OCT 2017
... amalgamated with the Credit and Investments Ombudsman and the Superannuation Complaints Tribunal to form the government's 'one-stop-shop' financial services dispute resolution service, the Australian Financial Complaints Authority.

Expansion everywhere

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 3 OCT 2017
"They float. They all float!" Nah, not scribbling to spook the bejeesus out of you ala Pennywise the clown of "It" fame. Au contraire, the quote refers to the manufacturing PMI survey releases showing that the world's biggest economies are all - not ...

AustralianSuper moves to opt-in insurance

EMMA RAPAPORT  |  MONDAY, 18 SEP 2017
AustralianSuper has become the first major superannuation fund to make insurance opt-in for younger members in a bid to stop account erosion. Members of the industry fund who are under 25 when they join up will now be asked to "opt-in" to insurance ...

"Enough is enough": Women in Super launch national campaign

EMMA RAPAPORT  |  TUESDAY, 12 SEP 2017
... for superannuation to be paid on parental leave. "When around 40% of older single retired women live in poverty, we need to stop and say enough is enough," Wood said. "We must do better than a system that sees women retiring with 47% less than men. This ...

Group insurance inaction is "robbery": Inquiry

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 8 SEP 2017
Group insurers not doing enough to prevent the growing problem of employees owning multiple superannuation funds and life insurance premiums is equivalent to theft, according to today's life insurance parliamentary inquiry. Senate Parliamentary Joint ...

Broaden ASIC banning powers: Report

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 7 SEP 2017
... credit sectors. ASIC can currently prevent individuals from providing financial services and cancel an AFS license - it cannot stop them from managing a financial firm or remove individuals involved in managing a firm that may have a culture of non-compliance ...

Who's afraid of North Korea? Not the South Koreans

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 5 SEP 2017
... mood in Seoul given the latest threats: "Oh, people here are very calm and you know, you don't have a crisis here. If you stop people here and ask questions about North Korea, yes, they will talk about those nuclear weapons and they will talk about the ...

ASIC sets sights on IPO investment

EMMA RAPAPORT  |  FRIDAY, 1 SEP 2017
... prosecutes resulted in the regulator ASIC requiring corrective disclosure from issuers on 134 occasions, making 56 interim stop orders and five final stop orders. Proactive steps currently being considered by ASIC to help better investor decision making ...

CommSec and CFS combine tech strengths

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 28 AUG 2017
... high-net-worth and SMSF client investments with CommSec Adviser Services and Colonial First State coming together to launch a one-stop-shop portfolio service. Targeting advisers with HNW clients with direct share ownership, the aptly named Portfolio ...

Panel appointed to ease AFCA transition

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 AUG 2017
... reference panel to assist with the transition of existing financial services dispute resolution services to the new 'one-stop-shop' model, the Australian Financial Complaints Authority. Led by former Assistant Governor of the Reserve Bank of Australia ...