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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has accused critics of the Australian superannuation system, including the Financial Systems Inquiry, of using badly outdated data....

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Financial planning

The FSC has committed to pursuing the development of a national retirement income policy....

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Policy & Regulation

The ALP will not be forgetting FOFA and will look to reimplement its model when it returns to government....

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Life/Risk

Both APRA and ASIC express concerns at failure to learn lessons in life/risk sector....

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Financial planning

The FSC is pressing the Goverment to form a financial services export coordination body....

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Financial planning

This week’s FSC conference in Cairns will discuss how tax and regulation are impeding financial services innovation....

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Financial planning

The Senate inquiry of ASIC into its handling of the Commonwealth Bank is so negative it has tarnished trust in advisers, according to John Brogden....

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Financial planning

New research suggests the regulatory demands confronting financial services companies are distracting them from technological innovation....

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Superannuation

The FSC and industry funds are again at loggerheads over how default superannuation funds should be selected....

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