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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...
Life/Risk
Both the Financial Planning Association and the Association of Financial Advisers have signalled to the Australian Securities and Investments Commission that the future o...
Life/Risk
The industry has an opportunity to reduce the cost of advice and to make the process more efficient and profitable for life/risk advisers, according to MLC....
Superannuation
The Financial Services Council has lent its weight to the SMSF Association’s push to clear the way for self-managed funds to invest in infrastructure....
Life/Risk
The FSC has announced the extension of the frontline healthcare workers and total permanent disability claims initiatives until 1 January, 2021. ...
People & Products
It has appointed four new fund managers to its board and established a new board committee, the Fund Management Board Committee, to drive the strategic policy direction o...
Financial planning
The Australian government needs to remove excessive taxes that penalise investors in financial services, according to the Financial Services Council. ...
Life/Risk
The life insurance industry’s own Life Code Compliance Committee has slammed the insurers for being so inconsistent that the committee has been unable to deliver meaningf...
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This is why I left my last position. There was no interest in giving the client quality time, it was all about bumping ...
So the Hayne Royal Commission has left us with this. What a sad day for the financial planning industry. Clearly most ...