FINANCIAL SERVICES COUNCIL

Financial planning

The Financial Services Council has supported the view of Richard St John that a last resort compensation scheme would be 'inappropriate and counterproductive' for the fin...

Financial planning

The Australian financial services system is in danger of being unable to comply with the new foreign tax compliance system proposed by the United States, according to the...

Funds management

The winning team of the Money Management/Lonsec Fund Manager of the Year talks about its culture and what it takes to become part of Schroder Investment Management. Milan...

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Financial planning

The Federal Budget has won little applause and much criticism from the financial services industry....

Superannuation

An increase in the number of people holding life insurance inside superannuation rather than outside it may mean more people have inadequate cover....

Superannuation

Cbus' 2012 annual report has announced the superannuation fund's new standards for disclosure, two months after the Financial Services Council announced plans for members...

People & Products

Former Perpetual Limited chief executive David Deverall has been appointed a non-executive director with Charter Hall Limited and Charter Hall Funds Management....

Editorial

If, as is being widely speculated, the Federal Government uses the Federal Budget to once again alter the tax setting around Australia’s superannuation system, the ALP wi...

Financial planning

Once the dust has settled on the current round of industry reforms, the dealer group as we know it may cease to exist, according to senior financial financial advice figu...

Financial planning

Participants in the Financial Planning Association's shadow shopper workshops have called for better clarity from the regulator, as ASIC commissioner Peter Kell elaborate...

Superannuation

The Federal Government has been accused of taking a "backward and capricious step" by altering the tax settings on superannuation in the forthcoming Federal Budget....

Financial planning

Compliant industry codes of conduct deemed to obviate the need to comply with opt-in requirements will have to meet a hefty set of criteria, according to ASIC commissione...

Superannuation

Superannuation funds "should be as transparent as listed companies", says Financial Services Council chief executive John Brogden....

Financial planning

Level of interest sees AFA/FSC upgrade to a larger venue for their Future of Financial Advice forum....

Policy & Regulation

A surprisingly large response to a combined Association of Financial Advisers and Financial Services Council forum on the Future of Financial Advice changes indicates fin...

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