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People & Products

Challenger chief executive and managing director, Nick Hamilton, has joined the board of the Financial Services Council....

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Superannuation

The Financial Services Council has welcomed the bipartisan support for the Retirement Income Covenant and Corporate Collective Investment Vehicle....

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Financial planning

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....

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Policy & Regulation

Greater oversight from the corporate regulator of financial and compensation arrangements will reduce unpaid determination risk and ensure the CSLR operates as a genuine ...

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Superannuation

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...

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People & Products

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....

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Life/Risk

The enforceable standard will remove 87% of all occupational exclusions and occupation based restrictive disability definitions that currently exist in the industry by 1 ...

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People & Products

Scott Hartley, AMP Australian Wealth Management chief executive, has been appointed to the Financial Services Council board of directors along with Challenger executive, ...

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Policy & Regulation

The Corporate Collective Investment Vehicle will reduce tax barriers for Australian fund managers, while the retirement income covenant will require superannuation funds ...

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Editorial

Financial services associations will all have a new look in 2022 but is there a need for so many different ones?...

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People & Products

Bell Asset Management chief executive, Nick Fels, has been appointed as a board director by the Financial Services Council....

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People & Products

The Financial Services Council chief executive, Sally Loane, will step down from the role at the end of the year after seven years at the helm....

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Financial planning

The Association of Independently Owned Financial Professionals is “cynical” of the Financial Services Councils’ recommendations and believe there are flaws....

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Financial planning

The advice group supports many of recommendations of the white paper but has questioned the motives of the Financial Services Council and whether risk advisers should tru...

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Financial planning

Simplifying advice costs and tackling the difference between ‘advice’ and ‘general information’ are steps that will be a “giant leap forward” for the advice industry, acc...

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