FINANCIAL SERVICES COUNCIL
Superannuation
The Australian Prudential Regulation Authority has warned of margin compression resulting from insurance in superannuation changes....
Policy & Regulation
The Financial Services Council has called on the Government to finally act on tax relief allowing consumers to be rolled out of legacy financial products....
Superannuation
The Financial Services Council has welcomed the Senate’s passage of superannuation bills which will reduce fees charged on low balance MySuper accounts....
Financial planning
Legislation to implement the recommendations of the Banking Royal Commission should be treated with diligence and rigor, according to Financial Services Council chief exe...
Funds management
The Asian Region Funds Passport (ARFP) is now open for business and expected to provide a ticket to a financial services export boom, according to the Financial Services ...
Superannuation
The Financial Services Council is one of the few industry bodies to welcome the Productivity Commission’s report on superannuation since its public release this morning, ...
Life/Risk
Just over 60 per cent of Australians are against subsidising life insurance premiums for people who are at higher risk of future illness based on adverse genetic test res...
Life/Risk
Life risk industry veteran, Michael Molesworth, has warned that underwriters and claims assessors need to be subject to more stringent education requirements or risk comm...
Financial planning
The FSC said it has begun consulting with its members on the FASEA Standards Blueprint and the two draft legislative instruments....
Superannuation
The Financial Services Council has found that ordinary Australians who are members of large super funds are the biggest group benefiting from franking credit refunds, adv...
Financial planning
Industry Super Australia has objected to exempting personal financial advice from product design and distribution obligations, arguing planners need to be held responsibl...
Life/Risk
The Financial Services Council wants to extend its insurance code of conduct to “all life insurance distributors”....
Financial planning
The Financial Services Council has told the Royal Commission that advisers undertake a significant amount of work for clients, justifying their commission payments....
Life/Risk
The Financial Services Council has announced that it will place a moratorium on genetic tests for life insurance from July 2019....
Life/Risk
Plaintiff law firm, Maurice Blackburn has labelled the Financial Services Council’s failed bid to have life/risk insurers allowed involvement in worker rehabilitation as ...
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