FSC

Superannuation

The superannuation system needed reform that would promote choice and competition and help become sustainable over the long-term, the FSC said....

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Policy & Regulation

The Financial Services Council has conceded that a more exacting MySuper approval process may be needed before all MySuper funds can be offered as defaults....

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Editorial

The Government’s creation of an independent standards body will alter the dynamics of the financial planning industry and create a new hierarchy. ...

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Life/Risk

FSC releases life insurance Code of Conduct while defining relationship between insurers and advisers as separate and different....

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Editorial

Mike Taylor writes that the Productivity Commission’s consideration of alternative default models represents the real superannuation idealogical battleground....

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Life/Risk

The Association of Financial Advisers has sought substantial improvements in the Financial Services Council’s Life Insurer Code of Practice....

Tools & guides

In part one of a two-part article, Col Fullagar will consider an alternative way to achieve Trowbridge's suggested reforms for life insurance companies, and in so doing s...

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Financial planning

The FSC has urged the Government and Parliament to prioritise a list of reforms in financial services before venturing into a Royal Commission, which it said would be exp...

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Financial planning

The financial services industry had already spent $2.75 billion on implementing various regulatory changes, and should prepare to spend more on LIF, education standards, ...

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Financial planning

The Life Insurance Framework has unfairly targeted advisers and their businesses rather than FSC members including insurers and financial service providers, the LICG said...

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Financial planning

The Federal Government will allow its expert standards setting body discretion to issue exemptions on a case-by-case basis....

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Financial planning

The FSC Leaders Summit has been told ASIC should be responsible for ensuring planner professional associations are actually fit for purpose....

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Financial planning

Vertical integration had become an issue and it was time to rebuild trust in financial services, the FSC Leaders Summit has been told....

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Financial planning

Industry Super Australia has drawn a line in the sand on default fund changes while still pursuing changes to adviser remuneration and standards....

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Policy & Regulation

The Prime Minister’s decision to leave Kelly O’Dwyer in place in financial services grants the sector the important benefit of continuity of approach on key policy issues...

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