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COVID-19 poses unique human rights threats

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  THURSDAY, 28 MAY 2020
... to this pandemic," she said. "In response to this, large platforms such as Facebook, Google and Twitter are pointing consumers proactively to reliable sources like health authorities." Platforms playing the role of sorting fact from fiction is not so ...

FPA confirms redundancies

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  THURSDAY, 28 MAY 2020
... which includes redundancies. The FPA is calling its new strategy the MAC strategy, focused on members, advocacy and consumers. The plan involves a restructure of the organisation which will see "a number of roles" made redundant. The FPA declined to ...

Complaints abound during COVID-19: AFCA

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 28 MAY 2020
... denial of travel insurance claims. Untersteiner urged financial firms to provide early, proactive communication with consumers following an increase in complaints relating to COVID-19. "Many of these complaints result from poor communication, where a ...

Open banking accreditation now open

ALLY SELBY  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 MAY 2020
... Accreditation Application Platform (RAAP), set to be the "IT backbone" of open banking in Australia. Consumer Data Right gives consumers greater access and control over their data, allowing them to safely switch and transfer their banking data between ...

FASEA extension en route

HARRISON WORLEY  |  FRIDAY, 22 MAY 2020
... to Labor's position mere days later. "While we give credit to the Treasurer for finally acting, both industry and consumers would have been spared uncertainty if this common-sense decision could have been made far earlier." Senator Hume saw it differently ...

Super advocate takes FSC to task over TPD tests

HARRISON WORLEY  |  THURSDAY, 21 MAY 2020
Super Consumers Australia has called on Australia's life insurance industry to eradicate "junk terms" from total and permanent disability insurance, after the Financial Services Council committed to ensuring TPD cover wouldn't be impacted if ...

916 advisers gone in three months, ASIC responds

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  THURSDAY, 21 MAY 2020
... industry in this country." He said that ASIC wants to work with the advice industry to achieve positive outcomes for consumers. "We want to work with industry, we want to work with policy makers, we want to work with the government to make sure that ...

Advisers involved in ERS scams: ASIC

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 MAY 2020
... said: "ASIC is concerned that some advisers may use the current uncertainty from COVID-19 as part of their pitch to consumers to carry out broader superannuation activities, such as the possibility of early release of superannuation, searching for lost ...

Multi-boutique warns of fourth quarter reckoning

ALLY SELBY  |  MONDAY, 18 MAY 2020
... to Principal Global Investors chief strategist Seema Shah. "The impact of COVID-19 has been ruthless to companies and consumers, seen in earnings per share downward revisions (most negative on record) and economic data (equally awful)," she said. "Yet ...

Chief economist update: Pay cut or pay not?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 15 MAY 2020
... by 32.6% in May at the same time that the 'Unemployment Expectations Index' dropped by 13.4% (indicating less consumers expect the unemployment to rise over the coming year). Australia's heading in the right direction but there are still ...