Former Financial Services Council chief executive, Sally Loane, has joined the advisory board of corporate advisory consultancy Orizontas....
Advice should be treated with the respect given to doctors or lawyers as the industry has successfully improved itself to become a profession, according to Financial Serv...
The Financial Services Council has promoted Blake Briggs to chief executive, following his three months spent leading the council in an acting capacity. ...
Industry associations have welcomed the Federal Budget for providing stability by leaving superannuation unchanged but believe mums will be left behind....
Moving to Letters of Advice, abolishing safe harbour steps to comply with best interest duty and indexing the wholesale assets test are among proposals made by the Financ...
Labor would not make any “wholesale changes” to Your Future, Your Super reforms but has instead committed to tweaking aspects of it in response to emergent challenges tha...
The Financial Services Council has urged Australians who have lost their life insurance policies due to recent flooding to utilise the FSC’s services to help them find ou...
Superannuation funds have been told they will not face regulatory action if they seek to divest Russian assets, although the closure of the Russian stock market is making...
The ability to access free online information about financial services law should be a priority for the Government before any reform of the Corporations Act, the Financia...
Challenger chief executive and managing director, Nick Hamilton, has joined the board of the Financial Services Council....
The Financial Services Council has welcomed the bipartisan support for the Retirement Income Covenant and Corporate Collective Investment Vehicle....
The Financial Services Council is hoping the Quality of Advice review will chart the course to end two decades of regulatory encroachment on the advice industry....
Greater oversight from the corporate regulator of financial and compensation arrangements will reduce unpaid determination risk and ensure the CSLR operates as a genuine ...
Despite questions being raised about the appropriateness and accuracy of the prudential regulator’s heatmaps, they do underscore the importance of advice, the Financial S...
Deputy chief executive, Blake Briggs, has been appointed as acting CEO of the Financial Services Council as Sally Loane steps down on 23 December, 2021....
This verdict highlights something deeply wrong and rotten at the heart of the FSCP. We are witnessing a heavy-handed, op...
Interesting. Would be good to know the details of the StrategyOne deal....
It’s astonishing to see the FAAA now pushing for more advisers by courting "career changers" and international recruits,...