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Life/Risk
The risk insurance industry has defied all odds and continued to experience strong growth amid economic uncertainty. However, that is not to say the sector has managed to...
Policy & Regulation
The financial services industry has turned its attention to the parliamentary independents in the wake of the failure of the PJC reviewing the FOFA bills....
Editorial
The Australian financial services industry is facing some serious challenges through 2012 – something which Financial Services Council chief executive John Brogden pointe...
Policy & Regulation
The Government is expected to announce variable transitionary arrangements around the implementation of FOFA....
Life/Risk
The desire by superannuation fund members to retain small balance accounts to access insurance benefits poses a challenge with respect to auto-consolidation....
Superannuation
New Financial Services Council research backs benefits of auto-consolidation of superannuation accounts....
Superannuation
While Challenger has sought to put annuities on the agenda for the first Superannuation Roundtable meeting, the FPA is pushing its own line on concessional contributions ...
Financial planning
Financial Services Council accuses industrial judiciary of abrogating its responsibility to create a transparent default superannuation funds system....
Financial planning
Financial Services Council accuses industrial judiciary of abrogating its responsibility to create a transparent default superannuation funds system....
Policy & Regulation
Regulatory uncertainty is causing the financial planning industry to contract and dissuading young graduates from taking up the profession, according to FSC chief John Br...
Policy & Regulation
FOFA bills still risk making financial advice more inaccessible, says Financial Services Council's John Brogden....
Financial planning
Scaled financial advice is a promising offering receiving a big push from the Government and industry regulators. However, lingering uncertainties are preventing the serv...
Editorial
Although the process involving the upcoming FOFA reforms commenced a few years ago, the reforms package still looks like an unsolved jigsaw puzzle, writes Pam Roberts....
Editorial
Mike Taylor reports that the likelihood of a bipartisan report and meaningful amendments emerging from the Parliamentary Joint Committee reviewing the FOFA bills is becom...
Financial planning
New Financial Services Council (FSC) research reveals the current financial downturn is contributing to age discrimination which, in turn, is undermining retirement incom...
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So we are now underwriting criminal scams?...
Glad to see the back of you Steve. You made financial more expensive, not more affordable as you claim, and presided ...
Completely agree Peter. The definition of 'significant change is circumstances relevant to the scope of the advice' is s...