FSC

Features

John Berrill looks at the changes the ISWG have put forward to shake up the life insurance industry....

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Life/Risk

The FSC has released a draft standard paper for consultation, which proposes that life insurance APLs must have compulsory provider and product choice....

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Life/Risk

An additional layer of assistance to help consumers make a claim would add more confusion and would be seen as a way to discourage consumers from making a claim, a panel ...

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Life/Risk

ASIC would review issues in the life insurance industry with a culture lens, ASIC told an FSC conference panel....

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Financial planning

Five awards have been presented to talent in Australia’s life insurance industry at a gala dinner held in Sydney last night as part of the Financial Services Council Life...

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People & Products

AMP group executive, advice and New Zealand, Jack Regan has been appointed to the FSC’s board of directors, effective 24 February....

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Financial planning

A member of the Senate Economics Committee has described underwriting at time of claim as a 'serious problem' that the industry must address....

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Features

The Australian life/risk sector is facing a fundamental reshaping as advisers move beyond the LIF and banks consider their return on investment, Mike Taylor finds....

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Financial planning

The Financial Services Council is arguing for more industry self-regulation, describing Trowbridge as the "gold standard"....

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Life/Risk

The Australian and New Zealand Institute of Insurance and Finance (ANZIIF) and the Financial Services Council (FSC) have launched the Life Insurance Code of Practice....

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Financial planning

While the industry has welcomed the passage of the professional standards bill, Kelly O’Dwyer has reiterated the Government’s arguments against a Royal Commission into ba...

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Policy & Regulation

A new analysis has pointed to the removal of trailing commissions as significantly reducing the fees of corporate master trusts....

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Editorial

The financial services industry is facing another year of uncertainty but there will be opportunities for it to become the master of its own destiny....

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Features

Malavika Santhebennur writes that many policy issues that beleaguered the financial services sector in 2015 remained in 2016, and would continue into 2017....

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Financial planning

Industry associations have welcomed the Federal Government’s introduction of the bill to mandate higher education and professional standards for advisers....

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