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[The Wrap] Advisers should be very worried over today's FADC ruling

Friday 29th of March 2019

It seems the FMA was pretty keen on a scalp in the life insurance sector and it was presented with the opportunity to get one in a way many wouldn't have expected.

The adviser at the centre of the case is an Authorised Financial Adviser who did, it appears, a good deal of life insurance. Indeed he specialised in providing cover to people in the building trade.

About five years ago he sold some of his book to a Registered Financial Adviser; who then became the complaint in this case.

This was based on information for Client 1 who is described in the FADC decision as being "cavalier in a number of aspects of his evidence and surprisingly glib about matters as important as medical disclosure."

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