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The Financial Services Council has made multiple recommendations to ASIC regarding exercising its powers around AFSLs to mitigate the risk of failing companies including ...
Funds management
The Financial Services Council has appointed a new deputy chair for its board....
Financial planning
The Financial Services Council has recommended changes to regulatory design as millions more consumers are expected to need advice in the coming years....
Financial planning
Australian consumers say they are more likely to seek retirement advice from a financial adviser or their super fund, the FSC reveals, demonstrating a distrust of governm...
Funds management
The Financial Services Council says the sophisticated investor test needs to be updated to protect consumers....
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...
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...
Superannuation
Unveiling the 2023 Intergenerational Report, Treasurer Chalmers has called the retirement phase of super the government’s next frontier and flagged further consultation t...
Financial planning
Individual investors in New Zealand are steering clear of investment with higher potential risk/return with only 13% looking to areas such as cryptocurrency....
Expert Analysis
The financial services industry says a regulatory overhaul could rejuvenate the advice industry and technology could achieve the same result, writes Andrew Zietara....
Financial planning
The Financial Services Council is calling on the Australian Securities and Investments Commission to include a 12-month transition period for licensees to adjust to chang...
Features
2022 is set to have less compliance and regulatory activity, writes Zach Castles, leaving advisers with more time to focus on helping consumers and improving their busine...
Financial planning
The Association of Financial Advisers has welcomed the release of the Financial Services Council white paper that proposed recommendations to reduce the cost and time inv...
Financial planning
The Financial Services Council says the expansion of the scope and length of the committee will help Australia become a technology and finance centre....
Life/Risk
Plaintiff law firm Maurice Blackburn says the major life insurers have been shown to have been persistently ignoring their own code of conduct by a report from the Life C...
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It's not licensees not putting them on, it's small businesses (that are licensed) that cannot afford to put them on. The...
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