{"id":36026,"date":"2017-02-20T12:13:05","date_gmt":"2017-02-20T01:13:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/?p=36026"},"modified":"2017-02-22T11:44:30","modified_gmt":"2017-02-22T00:44:30","slug":"advisers-called-to-appear-at-pjc-hearings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/2017\/02\/20\/advisers-called-to-appear-at-pjc-hearings\/","title":{"rendered":"Advisers Called to Appear at PJC Hearings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Advisers will put forward their views on the state of the life insurance industry after the Parliament Joint Committee (PJC) Inquiry into Life Insurance announced\u00a0a series of public hearings over the coming weeks.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>At present, three hearings are set to take place, the first in in Melbourne on 22 February, the second in Sydney on 24 February and the third in Canberra on 3 March.<\/p>\n<p>The hearing, will hear from 39\u00a0individuals, industry bodies, consumer groups, superannuation funds, lawyers and regulators and cover 33\u00a0of the 65\u00a0submissions released so far by the PJC.<\/p>\n<p>Representatives from the Association of Independently Owned Financial Professionals (AIOFP), online life broker Rate Detective, non-aligned advice group Bombora and the Financial Ombudsman Service will speak at the Melbourne hearing.<\/p>\n<p>The Life Insurance Customer Group (LICG), FPA and AFA will\u00a0speak at the Sydney hearing while the Canberra hearings will feature the FSC, the four major banks and AIA Australia, according to a draft program seen by <em>Riskinfo.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Those appearing at the Melbourne hearing on 22 February include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Consumer Action Law Centre<\/li>\n<li>Association of Independently Owned Financial Professionals<\/li>\n<li>Rate Detective<\/li>\n<li>Bombora Advice<\/li>\n<li>Industry Super Australia<\/li>\n<li>Financial Ombudsman Service Australia<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/files\/2017\/02\/PJC-Melb-Hearing.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">(Full list and times here)<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Those appearing at the Sydney hearing on 24 February include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Choice<\/li>\n<li>Financial Rights Legal Centre<\/li>\n<li>Life Insurance Customer Group<\/li>\n<li>ClearView Wealth<\/li>\n<li>Financial Planning Association<\/li>\n<li>Association of Financial Advisors<\/li>\n<li>Australian Prudential Regulation Authority<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/files\/2017\/02\/PJC-Sydney-Hearing.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">(Full list and times here)<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Those appearing at the Canberra\u00a0hearing on 3 March include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Financial Services Council<\/li>\n<li>Commonwealth Bank<\/li>\n<li>Westpac &amp; BT Financial Group<\/li>\n<li>NAB &amp; MLC<\/li>\n<li>ANZ<\/li>\n<li>AIA Australia<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/files\/2017\/02\/PJC-Canberra-Hearing.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">(Full list and times here)<\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Note: this story was updated on 22 February to include the Canberra hearing details<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Advisers will put forward their views on the state of the life insurance industry after the Parliament Joint Committee (PJC) Inquiry into Life Insurance announced\u00a0a series of public hearings over the coming weeks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":36088,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,4,270],"tags":[4247],"class_list":{"0":"post-36026","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-compliance-regulation","8":"category-products","9":"category-remuneration","10":"tag-feature"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36026","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36026"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36026\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/36088"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36026"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36026"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36026"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}