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Financial planning

Advisers could find themselves unable to receive the fair market price of their advice as the Delivering Better Financial Outcomes legislation states superannuation trust...

Financial planning

The Financial Services Council has launched the Digital Advice Expert Group to support policy development around digital advice adoption and ensure greater accessibility ...

Financial planning

Sharing his reasoning in joining the FSC board, WT Financial managing director, Keith Cullen, believes “product and advice cannot be separated” from each other in the cur...

Financial planning

The heads of two financial advice licensees have joined the board of the Financial Services Council as it looks to deepen its engagement with the space and strengthen its...

Financial planning

The FSC CEO will join a long line-up of renowned speakers at the inaugural summit. ...

Financial planning

Financial Services Council chief executive, Blake Briggs, is urging Minister for Financial Services, Stephen Jones, to take advantage of the QAR opportunity to reduce reg...

Funds management

The Financial Services Council says the sophisticated investor test needs to be updated to protect consumers....

Financial planning

Wealth Data’s Colin Williams and the Financial Services Council’s CEO Blake Briggs are among industry commentators who have shared their insights into the impact of the H...

Policy & Regulation

With several financial services firms looking to implement AI into their business, the federal government is examining introducing mandatory guardrails to ensure it can b...

Financial planning

The FSC and SIAA have recommended against major changes to the income or product values for the sophisticated investor test, despite a spike in eligible investors, as the...

Financial planning

While the FSC largely supports the final tranche of Delivering Better Financial Outcomes reforms, the FAAA is “deeply concerned” about possible negative implications of t...

Funds management

Removing barriers for fund managers and super funds to transition to modern investment products would result in customers retiring with cumulatively $16 billion more by 2...

Financial planning

The Financial Advice Association Australia and the Financial Services Council have responded to the first consultation on Delivering Better Financial Outcomes, recognisin...

Funds management

Australia’s fund management industry has grown significantly to $4.3 trillion in FUM, however complex regulatory policy prevents the nation from properly competing with i...

Financial planning

Financial Services Council chief executive, Blake Briggs, has shed a light on the need for industry body consolidation and how meaningful engagement between groups has br...

 

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Simon J

What do you think the motivation is behind this broadly worded legislation Peter? Is it to make it harder for retail ...

14 hours 46 minutes ago
PETER JOHNSTON- AIOFP

The FSC should have thought about this when they cooperated with O'Dywer/Frydenberg/Hume/FPA/AFA 10 years ago when this...

17 hours ago
Simon J

Sick of it. Canberra is a joke....

18 hours ago

AustralianSuper and Australian Retirement Trust have posted the financial results for the 2022–23 financial year for their combined 5.3 million members....

10 months ago

A $34 billion fund has come out on top with a 13.3 per cent return in the last 12 months, beating out mega funds like Australian Retirement Trust and Aware Super. ...

9 months 3 weeks ago

The verdict in the class action case against AMP Financial Planning has been delivered in the Federal Court by Justice Moshinsky....

10 months ago