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Blair Vernon is only the acting chief executive of AMP Australia but he has been appointed to the board of the Financial Services Council....
Expert Analysis
Financial Services Council policy manager – advice, Zach Castles, argues that regulatory pragmatism can help reduce the cost of financial advice....
Superannuation
The release of pre-Budget submissions suggests the Financial Services Council was influential in the Government’s decision to introduce super account stapling and perform...
Financial planning
The guide from the Financial Services Council provides tips and guidance on how firms could improve their gender diversity in their firm. ...
Financial planning
The COVID-19 pandemic could act as the catalyst for regulatory pragmatism aimed at lowering the cost of advice, according to the Financial Services Council....
Financial planning
The Financial Services Council has welcomed the Government’s Budget changes to superannuation while others are seeking more detail....
Life/Risk
Consumers will have the choice between sticking with increasingly expensive features-rich income protection products or moving to more affordable products to be launched ...
Expert Analysis
The Financial Services Council’s Jane Macnamara argues that the use of superannuation is not the answer to Australia’s housing affordability problem....
Superannuation
The Financial Services Council has declared its opposition to people using their superannuation for a first home deposit declaring the argument does not stack up and woul...
Life/Risk
It has welcomed the finding from the draft report of the NSW review of Federal Financial Relations to abolish insurance duties. ...
Financial planning
Superannuation funds would be able to deliver advice around the questions most asked by members via a record of advice under a proposal being backed by the Association of...
Features
The Financial Services Council’s Zach Castles makes the argument for pulling down the barriers to the delivery of scalable advice....
Features
Mike Taylor writes that less than 12 months out from the Australian Securities and Investments Commission’s review of the Life Insurance Framework, the Australian life in...
Financial planning
The Financial Services Council is pushing a scaled advice model to help offset the exodus of advisers....
Financial planning
The Government and regulators should be prepared to consider a limited advice regime covering direct life sales, according to members of a Financial Services Council pane...
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Glad to see the back of you Steve. You made financial more expensive, not more affordable as you claim, and presided ...
Completely agree Peter. The definition of 'significant change is circumstances relevant to the scope of the advice' is s...