The Commission explored issues relating to the insurance industry in Round 6 of its public hearings, held in Melbourne from 10 September–21 September 2018. In particular, this round of hearings focused on issues associated with the sale and design of Read More …
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Superannuation
The Commission explored issues relating to the superannuation industry in Round 5 of its public hearings, held in Melbourne from 6 August–17 August 2018. The Commission’s consideration of the superannuation industry focused on how registerable superannuation entity (RSE) licensees fulfil Read More …
Experiences with financial services entities in regional and remote communities
Round 4 of the Commission’s public hearings explored issues affecting Australians living in remote and regional communities, including agricultural lending and issues affecting Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people. The hearings were held in Brisbane (25–29 June 2018) and Darwin Read More …
Small and medium enterprises (SMEs)
The Commission explored issues relating to small and medium enterprises (SMEs) during Round 3 of its public hearings, held in Melbourne from 21 May–1 June 2018. Round 3 focused on issues relating to the provision of loans and whether the Read More …
Financial advice
The Commission explored issues relating to the financial advice industry in Round 2 of its public hearings, held in Melbourne from 16 April–27 April 2018. The Commission’s consideration of the financial advice industry focused on the conduct of financial services Read More …
Website
For the period 18 December 2017 to 30 November 2018, the Financial Services Royal Commission website had over 4,373,000 page views. With the exception of the home page, the top five pages based on number of page views were: 1 Read More …
Hearing dates
Round Dates Location Consumer lending 13-Mar-2018 – 23-Mar-2018 Commonwealth Law Courts Building, 305 William St, Melbourne VIC 3000 Financial advice 16-Apr-2018 – 27-Apr-2018 Commonwealth Law Courts Building, 305 William St, Melbourne VIC 3000 Small and medium enterprises 21-May-2018 – 01-Jun-2018 Read More …
6.1 Background
This case study concerned group life insurance offered to members of the superannuation funds of AMP Superannuation Limited (AMP Super) and NM Superannuation Proprietary Limited (NM Super), the AMP Group’s superannuation trustees. AMP Life Limited (AMP Life) is the group Read More …
2.1 Background
At the time of the sixth round of hearings, Freedom Insurance Group Limited (Freedom) marketed and distributed life insurance products directly to consumers by telephone. The case study examined Freedom’s sales and retention practices, both generally and in relation to Read More …
The Commission’s tasks
In the Interim Report I pointed out that the first paragraph of the Terms of Reference obliged me to inquire into whether conduct might have amounted to misconduct (as defined) and that the second paragraph required me to consider whether Read More …