FSC

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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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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