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Advice reforms can solve retirement income challenges

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 9 FEB 2024
... approaching or already in retirement to products that can help with their retirement income needs without falling fowl of anti-hawking laws. Tim Jenkins, the chair of the institute's superannuation and investments practice committee, said beyond ...

Life, funeral insurers cop $14m fine

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 JUL 2023
... cold call telephone sales of direct life insurance and consumer credit insurance. The ban was superseded by reforms to the anti-hawking regime, which took effect on 5 October 2021.

Anti-hawking laws could dampen super fund advice: Academic

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 27 JUN 2023
An academic has raised concerns about the impact anti-hawking laws will have on superannuation funds' ability to provide financial advice amid the federal government's proposal to open advice to other channels. Anthony Asher, an associate professor ...

UK to ban cold calling on all financial products

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 5 MAY 2023
... pension schemes. In 2020, ASIC introduced a ban on the use of cold calling to sell direct life insurance. Meanwhile, in 2021 anti-hawking legislation was introduced. Earlier this year, the Australian Institute of Superannuation Trustees (AIST) called ...

Advice group convicted of hawking

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 FEB 2023
... from that, on Monday the Southport Magistrates Court convicted the firm after it pleaded guilty to one count of breaching anti-hawking laws. It was alleged that between August 2019 and June 2020 the company made unsolicited calls to consumers to encourage ...

Cold calling advice firms called out

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 FEB 2023
The Australian Institute of Superannuation Trustees (AIST) is calling on the government to extend anti-hawking laws to combat financial advice firms using third parties to solicit business through cold calling. Unsolicited calls to consumers about superannuation ...

QAR leaves insurance commissions alone

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 3 NOV 2022
... were paid a fee by the client for their advice." However, she said the risk is diminished by other recent reforms, including anti-hawking, design and distribution obligations, and caps on some commissions. "A financial adviser is an intermediary who ...

Dealer group faces anti-hawking charges

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 22 MAR 2022
A Brisbane-based financial advice business has been charged with anti-hawking offences after cold calling consumers and pushing them to roll over their super into a new product. National Advice Solutions appeared in Southport Magistrates Court in Queensland ...

ASIC to watch member shunting to untested super products

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 2 SEP 2021
... really helpful in this respect," she said. "So, I mentioned design and distribution obligations but we've also got new anti-hawking laws coming into force. And as well there was some recent law about...where the boundaries of providing general advice ...

ASIC consults on anti-hawking rules

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 22 JUL 2021
The corporate regulator has opened consultation for the proposed ban to hawking of financial products. Anti-hawking reforms are slated for an October 5 start. They are a part of the government's response to the Hayne Royal Commission, which said hawking ...
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