Compliance

Financial Services Guide

At Civic Insurance Brokers, we aim to make you feel totally at ease with the services we offer. In doing so we are providing you with this easy-to-understand Financial Services Guide. It is designed to answer your frequently asked questions. If you’d like more information or clarification, please don’t hesitate to contact us.

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) requires us to provide retail clients with a Financial Services Guide, before we provide any advisory services.

Our Financial Services Guide is designed to assist you in deciding whether or not to use any of the services offered in the Guide. It contains information about remuneration paid to us in relation to the services offered and what to do if you have a complaint about our services.

If you are a retail client and you proceed to deal with us, you will also be provided with other documentation including Statements of Advice, Product Disclosure Documents or other regulated documents.

A Statement of Advice comprehensively details important information about the recommendations we are making to you in relation to the provision of Financial Services.

Where we are recommending a particular financial product, you may also receive a Product Disclosure Statement.

A Product Disclosure Statement contains important information about the financial products being recommended.

Before you commit to accepting any recommendations made to you, you should have been provided with a Statement of Advice and/or a Product Disclosure Statement. There are some circumstances in which these documents do not need to be provided.

If you have not been provided with these documents, and think that they should have been provided, please contact us on (02) 62626115 and we shall endeavour to provide them to you.

Dispute Resolution

Who can I talk to if I have a complaint about the advisory services?

If you have a complaint about the services provided, you should take the following steps:

  1. Contact your adviser and tell them about your complaint.
  2. If your complaint is not satisfactorily resolved within three days, please call us on (02) 6262 6115 or put your complaint in writing and send it to us at:
    GPO Box 420, CANBERRA, ACT, 2601
    Email: info@civicinsurance.com.au
    We will endeavour to resolve your complaint quickly and fairly.

If you still don’t receive a satisfactory outcome, Civic Insurance Brokers is a member of The Australian Financial Complaints Authority (AFCA), an independent private complaint body funded by its corporate members.

You can call the AFCA from anywhere in Australia on 1800 931 678, or visit their website afca.org.au/make-a-complaint.

The AFCA resolve complaints between consumers and providers of financial services (such as insurance brokers). Any decision made by the AFCA is binding on us as a member of the scheme.

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Canberra Office

Level 2, 28 University Avenue,
Canberra ACT 2600
(02) 6262 6115
info@civicinsurance.com.au

 

Central Coast Office

Suite 4.39 Element Building, 200 Central Coast Hwy,
Erina NSW 2250
(02) 9441 8442