FSC

People & Products

The Life Insurance Framework and the Life Insurance Code of Conduct will be key elements at the FSC’s annual Life Insurance Conference in March....

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Policy & Regulation

The FSC proposed a 22 per cent company tax rate in its tax reform package to boost Australia’s competitiveness while lower tax rates would be paid for by a higher GST....

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Superannuation

The Financial Services Council has warned the Government against sacrificing national retirement savings to appease critics of the super tax concessions....

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Financial planning

The FSC is one of the founding members of a forum aiming to promote various industries including financial services in a bid to transition from the mining boom. ...

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Superannuation

Australians could be losing out when it comes to their superannuation, due to “complex industrial law” preventing them from leaving default funds....

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Superannuation

The Financial Services Council brands Labor Senators ‘desperate’ and ‘feeble’ for attacking APRA executive, Helen Rowell....

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Life/Risk

The Financial Services Council’s position supporting three-year clawbacks demands that advisers take enormous leaps of faith and defies the position of some members, clai...

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Editorial

The Prime Ministership may have changed hands but the make-up of the Senate has not and the financial services industry should expect slow progress on any Government legi...

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Policy & Regulation

The Government will consider further extending the existing FOFA provisions if reforms are not found to better align firm and consumer interests by 2018....

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Financial planning

The wealth management industry needs to identify, understand, and tackle the complex issues surrounding the financial abuse of the elderly....

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Editorial

The Grattan Institute's Jim Minifie argues that the super governance reforms currently being pursued by the Government are defensible - but not the main game for members....

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Outsider

Outsider has never particularly coveted power and so he happily attends lunches and industry events and taps out his stories oblivious to the corporate political machinat...

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Editorial

A change of minister combined with a change in ministerial advisory personnel and Government policy attitudes has altered the dynamic for the key financial services lobby...

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Superannuation

Aussies are taking more control on their retirement savings as 52 per cent say fees and better performance were reasons to switch funds, according to a report....

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Financial planning

The regulatory restrictions lifted through Trans-Pacific Partnership will help streamline processes and transparency for licensing of financial services firms, according ...

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