Resources

The design and distribution obligations (DADOs) should help to achieve a cultural shift within financial firms away from simply ‘selling’ financial products towards designing and distributing suitable products that meet customer needs.

COTA Australia, in collaboration with CHF, RANZCR, AMSIG and ADIA wrote to the Australian Government raising concerns with a recent recommendation to prevent people 50 years and over from accessing MRI’s on their knees unless recommended by a specialist.

COTA Australia provides brief comments to Treasury regarding its Consultation Regulatory Impact Statement (RIS) on fees for paper bills, further to meeting with Treasury officers in December 2017 to discuss the paper and issues.

Federal Budget 2018-19 Pre-Budget Positioning Statement

November 2017 - COTA welcomes the opportunity to provide a brief comment to the Australia Energy Regulator (AER) Customer Price Information Issues Paper dated September 2017.

October 2017 - COTA welcomes the opportunity to provide a brief comment to the AEMC consultation paper on National Energy Retail Amendment (Notification of the end of a fixed benefit period) Rule 2017 (Reference RRC0010) dated 12 September 2017.