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Superannuation

FSC has claimed the average MySuper fund offered by its members have outperformed the equivalent offering from industry funds...

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Policy & Regulation

Increased Government regulation of the financial services sector will not improve the public’s view of the industry, the Minister for Finance and acting Deputy Treasurer,...

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Life/Risk

Col Fullagar explores the seldom-mentioned stressors associated with the claims process and their potential fallout....

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Financial planning

The FSC’s call for an industry-funded advisory board has drawn scorn from two of finance industry’s most vocal bodies....

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Financial planning

A new statutory body should control education and professional standards according to FSC, however it may sideline professional associations seeking self-regulation....

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Financial planning

The corporate regulator states a co-regulatory model could work for financial advisers but says it is cost-effective and ethically practical to only work with one profess...

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Superannuation

The Federal Government’s deal with PUP to secure the scrapping of the mining tax has united the financial services industry in condemning the delay to lifting the SG....

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Superannuation

Strong growth in total annual contributions to superannuation funds since the GFC driven by improved economic state in US and UK....

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Superannuation

A huge bulk of super fund members want advice from their super fund providers to bridge their lack of understanding of the super system....

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Financial planning

The financial services sector needs a new ASIC commissioner specifically to deal with international regulatory issues....

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Editorial

ASIC must do more than simply identify problems when it publishes its forthcoming report on the life/risk industry. It must identify some solutions....

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Editorial

Mike Taylor writes that Financial Services Council chief executive, John Brogden used his last annual conference address to point to how little the big issues have change...

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Editorial

The financial services regulators have sent a clear message to the life/risk industry about its past mistakes. ...

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Financial planning

Life/risk advisers are bracing themselves for ASIC to issue a tough analysis of churn and lapse rates....

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Superannuation

FSC chief executive, John Brogden, has accused critics of the Australian superannuation system, including the Financial Systems Inquiry, of using badly outdated data....

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