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FSC revamps life insurer code

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 12 NOV 2018
The Financial Services Council has released a new draft life insurance code of practice that makes 30 changes to the code in place since 2017. The second iteration of the code aims to lift the standards in product design, sales, underwriting, customer ...

Life insurers fear genetic testing changes

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 2 NOV 2018
Majority of life insurance companies fear the availability of genetic testing to consumers will be more disadvantageous and complex, and will have a negative impact on their business, a new survey shows. Strategic Insights' survey of retail, direct ...

Life insurer early intervention reforms dumped

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 25 OCT 2018
Life insurance reforms proposed to provide better rehabilitation and early intervention treatment have been scrapped by the Federal Government. In response to the Parliamentary Joint Committee on Corporations and Financial Services' report released ...

FSU, FSC respond to interim report

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 28 SEP 2018
The Finance Sector Union has welcomed the release of Commissioner Hayne's interim report, labeling it an important first step in reforming the financial services industry. FSU national secretary Julia Angrisano said the union agrees wholeheartedly ...

ASIC slams unacceptable reporting breaches

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 SEP 2018
Major institutions take about five years to identify significant breaches while remediating some customers takes even longer, an ASIC review of breach reporting obligations found. In Report 594 released overnight, the big the institutions took 4.5 years ...

Give life code a chance, Loane tells Royal Commission

HARRISON WORLEY  |  FRIDAY, 21 SEP 2018
Financial Services Council (FSC) chief executive Sally Loane equated removing the carve out of life insurance claim handling in the Corporations Act to using "a sledgehammer to crack a nut." Appearing before the financial services Royal Commission on ...

Industry bodies respond to RG97 review

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 26 JUL 2018
Several industry bodies have welcomed the recommendations aiming to overhaul fee and cost disclosure practices of superannuation funds and managed investments under Regulatory Guide 97. Darren McShane, appointed by ASIC to spearhead the independent ...

FSC aggregates insurance industry data

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 26 JUL 2018
The Financial Services Council is launching a multi-million-dollar data project that will aggregate and distribute life insurance industry data. FSC chief executive Sally Loane announced the project's delivery in Melbourne today, the culmination ...

Aussie funds to access Asian markets

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 29 JUN 2018
Both houses of Federal Parliament yesterday passed the Asia Region Funds Passport (ARFP) bill that will open up Asian markets for Australian financial services companies. The legislation was tabled in late March. Wealth management industry data manager ...

Government opens consultation for amended CCIV regime

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 14 JUN 2018
The Federal Government opened consultation to industry stakeholders for the first tranche of the Treasury Laws Amendment (Corporate Collective Investment Vehicle) Bill 2018. In August 2017, the Government called for initial consultation on the CCIV ...