FINANCIAL SERVICES COUNCIL

Editorial

“If you don’t think financial advice on life insurance is a problem area for ASIC and for industry, please think again.” ...

Editorial

With the Australian Securities and Investments Commission having fired a shot over the bows of the industry on the question of churn, the Risk Store’s Sue Laing argues th...

Life/Risk

FSC chief executive John Brogden has once again called upon the life insurance industry to heed ASIC’s warning and self-regulate on churn while it can....

Financial planning

ASIC Commissioner Peter Kell suggests embracing the purpose of FOFA is necessary for planning to become a profession....

Life/Risk

John Brogden said the industry’s failure to self-regulate on churn carries the risk of regulator action....

Superannuation

Most seniors want Government to leave super alone, and not just tax concessions....

Financial planning

With next week’s FOFA event having sold out, Money Management is now offering a webstream....

Superannuation

With constant regulatory change impacting on the superannuation sector, financial planners are finding it difficult to focus on clients’ retirement needs, writes Bela Moo...

Funds management

The Australian funds management industry is the fourth largest in the world and has reached its $2 trillion milestone at the end of last year....

Financial planning

In what promises to be one of the most comprehensive debates around the shape of the financial planning industry in a Federal election year, Money Management has joined w...

Life/Risk

We can buy everything online – clothes, shoes, cars, holidays – so it is only natural that the direct life insurance channel is becoming part of the online tsunami. How t...

Financial planning

The Financial Services Council has cited the opposition of key Labor figures to reinforce its case for the Governnment to stop tinkering with super....

Financial planning

FSC's John Brogden offers to have the industry co-fund a public education campaign on the value of advice....

Financial planning

The Financial Services Council's backdown on its 'churning' policy has been welcomed by the Association of Financial Advisers (AFA)....

Financial planning

The Financial Services Council (FSC) will not go ahead with its application to the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission to have its insurance churning policy ap...

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