Advice should be treated with the respect given to doctors or lawyers as the industry has successfully improved itself to become a profession, according to Financial Serv...

The Financial Services Council has promoted Blake Briggs to chief executive, following his three months spent leading the council in an acting capacity. ...

Moving to Letters of Advice, abolishing safe harbour steps to comply with best interest duty and indexing the wholesale assets test are among proposals made by the Financ...

Challenger chief executive and managing director, Nick Hamilton, has joined the board of the Financial Services Council....

Despite questions being raised about the appropriateness and accuracy of the prudential regulator’s heatmaps, they do underscore the importance of advice, the Financial S...

Deputy chief executive, Blake Briggs, has been appointed as acting CEO of the Financial Services Council as Sally Loane steps down on 23 December, 2021....

The roles of the adviser and licensee may need to be more clearly defined for the individual adviser registration regime to properly function. ...

Outsider notes that the class wars between industry superannuation funds and retail master trusts have never really ended....

Superannuation industry associations may be facing significant consolidation as the Government’s new legislation forces to superannuation funds to justify spending member...

The Financial Services Council says the expansion of the scope and length of the committee will help Australia become a technology and finance centre....