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Despite rumours suggesting otherwise, the Financial Services Council says receiving the COVID-19 vaccine will not invalidate life insurance policies....
Superannuation
Some of the worst-performing super products have been carved out of the performance test putting consumers at risk of being stapled to a dud fund, according to the Austra...
Financial planning
The major financial planning representative groups have met informally to discuss the direction of policy amid the Australia Securities and Investments Commission’s conti...
Financial planning
The savings identified by the Financial Services Council in its new advice green paper are marginal, at best, according to the chief executive of major licensee, Countplu...
Life/Risk
A focus on legacy products has become one of the biggest barriers to innovation and the industry needs to be prepared to bear the burden of investment in improving those ...
Policy & Regulation
The corporate regulator has asked the industry to better help the regulators better regulate the industry....
Financial planning
A new Financial Services Council green paper has suggested that a moral risk will emerge if self-licensed advisers are allowed to proliferate in the absence of dealer gro...
Superannuation
Superannuation industry associations may be facing significant consolidation as the Government’s new legislation forces to superannuation funds to justify spending member...
Financial planning
The industry needs to simplify the way it presents advice to clients as statements of advice can increase anxiety for consumers and does not build trust, according to a p...
Financial planning
The Financial Services Council says the expansion of the scope and length of the committee will help Australia become a technology and finance centre....
Financial planning
As the major licensees compete to attract advice businesses and individual advisers, the Australian Securities and Investments Commission’s new approach to reference-chec...
Superannuation
As Government back-benchers canvass allowing people to opt out of a higher superannuation guarantee, data provided to a Parliamentary Committee suggests people have littl...
Policy & Regulation
The Financial Services Council has nominated initiating a compensation scheme of last resort as one of the major challenges facing the Government in 2021. ...
Superannuation
The Government’s Retirement Income Review has been welcomed but the industry has differing views on the superannuation guarantee increase and accessing home equity to fun...
Life/Risk
Placing consumers and their treating doctors at the centre of the decision-making process will improve outcomes and reduce the claims costs for life insurers to keep prem...
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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,...
increased professionalism within the industry - shouldn't that say, FAR register almost halving in the last 24 months he...