SALLY LOANE

Financial planning

The FSC said it has begun consulting with its members on the FASEA Standards Blueprint and the two draft legislative instruments....

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Superannuation

The Financial Services Council has found that ordinary Australians who are members of large super funds are the biggest group benefiting from franking credit refunds, adv...

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Life/Risk

The Financial Services Council wants to extend its insurance code of conduct to “all life insurance distributors”....

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Life/Risk

The Financial Services Council has announced that it will place a moratorium on genetic tests for life insurance from July 2019....

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Life/Risk

The Joint Parliamentary Committee on Corporations and Financial Services has rebuffed an FSC proposal to allow life/risk insurers to participate in getting injured worker...

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Outsider

Outsider was gratified to read that Financial Services Council chief executive, Sally Loane never thought about quitting after what some in the industry believed was a le...

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Funds management

Australian and Japanese asset managers, distributors and regulators have expressed their support for the Asia Funds Region Funds Passport....

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Policy & Regulation

The Financial Services Council has called on financial institutions to improve their response time to incidents, saying that action was urgently needed if they were going...

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Life/Risk

The Royal Commission has raised the issue of the enforceability of the life insurance code of practice, with the Financial Services Council facing tough questions on whet...

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Life/Risk

Financial Services Council chief executive, Sally Loane, has admitted to the Royal Commission that insurers effectively pay for their products to be sold by advisers....

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Financial planning

The Financial Services Council has come out in support of the Government’s toughened-up corporate misconduct penalties, following the discoveries by the Royal Commission ...

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People & Products

The Financial Services Council (FSC) has announced two new board appointments, with Brian Benari becoming co-deputy chairperson and Marianne Perkovic taking up a director...

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People & Products

The Financial Services Council has announced the winners of its Life Insurance Awards, with AMP Life and MLC Life Insurance successful in three of the five categories. ...

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Features

The Australian life/risk sector is facing a fundamental reshaping as advisers move beyond the LIF and banks consider their return on investment, Mike Taylor finds....

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Policy & Regulation

Financial Services Council chief executive, Sally Loane says that after 15 years of inaction it is time for the Government to clear the way for the rationalisation of leg...

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Minister for Financial Services, Stephen Jones, has provided further information about the second tranche of the Delivering Better Financial Outcomes (DBFO) reforms....

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