The Financial Services Council is arguing for more industry self-regulation, describing Trowbridge as the "gold standard"....
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....
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...
A new analysis has pointed to the removal of trailing commissions as significantly reducing the fees of corporate master trusts....
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....
Malavika Santhebennur writes that many policy issues that beleaguered the financial services sector in 2015 remained in 2016, and would continue into 2017....
Industry associations have welcomed the Federal Government’s introduction of the bill to mandate higher education and professional standards for advisers....
The superannuation system needed reform that would promote choice and competition and help become sustainable over the long-term, the FSC said....
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....
The Government’s creation of an independent standards body will alter the dynamics of the financial planning industry and create a new hierarchy. ...
FSC releases life insurance Code of Conduct while defining relationship between insurers and advisers as separate and different....
Mike Taylor writes that the Productivity Commission’s consideration of alternative default models represents the real superannuation idealogical battleground....
The Association of Financial Advisers has sought substantial improvements in the Financial Services Council’s Life Insurer Code of Practice....
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...
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...
So we are now underwriting criminal scams?...
Glad to see the back of you Steve. You made financial more expensive, not more affordable as you claim, and presided ...
Completely agree Peter. The definition of 'significant change is circumstances relevant to the scope of the advice' is s...