royal commission

Superannuation

New research has revealed declining satisfaction with retail funds among high account balance holders while industry funds gain the benefits....

Insurance

The Financial Services Council has called on financial institutions to improve their response time to incidents, saying that action was urgently needed if they were going...

Insurance

At least four of AMP’s corporate superannuation clients are in the process of reviewing their arrangements in the wake of successive rounds of hearings before the Royal C...

Insurance

The Royal Commission into Misconduct in the Banking, Superannuation and Financial Services Industry has canvassed whether institutionally-owned superannuation funds shoul...

Insurance

Life/risk insurers have been placed on notice that the Royal Commission may recommend measures to hold them responsible for psychiatric injury inflicted on clients by cla...

Insurance

The Royal Commission has heard that Allianz is checking past compliance issues to see if they should have been reported to a regulator, in addition to its approximately 1...

Insurance

The Royal Commission today heard that AMP failed to refund members’ estates for fees charged on life insurance after AMP knew they had died....

Insurance

The Royal Commission has heard that a CommInsure customer was denied a claim following breast cancer treatment, despite two doctors confirming to the insurer that her pro...

Insurance

The Royal Commission has heard that CommInsure ran misleading and deceptive ads, with Commissioner Kenneth Hayne QC suggesting that its reprimand for doing so by ASIC was...

Insurance

In a hearing littered by admissions of wrongdoing by Clearview, the Royal Commission has heard the insurer’s chief and risk officer, Gregory Martin, detail how the firm b...

Superannuation

Slater and Gordon has launched class actions following allegations arising from the Royal Commission, with CFS and AMP likely to be the first targets....

Insurance

The Royal Commission has heard of the issues which gave rise to ClearView closing its Direct business including ‘random incentive days’ and trips to Queenstown, New Zeala...

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Grant Banner

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Super director remuneration ...

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