FINANCIAL SERVICES COUNCIL

Editorial

The Government has finally delivered the details of its Stronger Super package but, as Mike Taylor writes, those hoping for certainty may be waiting a very long time....

Policy & Regulation

The Industry Super Network has welcomed the second tranche of FOFA and offered help to Govt on developing the fine detail....

Financial planning

The Financial Services Council has dismissed ISN research disparaging retail superannuation funds as flawed and misleading....

Financial planning

Patron Financial Advice has opposed a Financial Services Council proposal to introduce a binding standard for insurance business, saying it would restrict consumer choice...

Superannuation

The Government’s Stronger Super package has generated a mixed response from the industry....

Financial planning

The term 'churning', which is being used to describe a legitimate practice, defames advisers while it whitewashes the role of life companies, according to Synchron direct...

Financial planning

Within days of the Government's expected release of its Stronger Super proposals it has been warned it risks creating an industry fund monopoly....

Editorial

Lack of investor engagement with superannuation is a widespread issue. Bill Buttler provides guidance on fee comparison for retail investors, and argues standardised meas...

Financial planning

Government claims opt-in would cost around $11 per financial planning client is at best questionable and, at worst, entirely misleading, writes Mike Taylor....

Editorial

Financial planners have finally been given the details of the Government's FOFA reforms. In an editorial written prior to the release of the reform package Mike Taylor wa...

Editorial

The Government has proposed retaining higher concessional contributions caps for those aged 50 or over, however Craig Day argues imposing eligibility criteria needs furth...

Superannuation

Prime Minister Julia Gillard argues the strength of Australia’s superannuation regime supplants the need for a sovereign wealth fund....

Policy & Regulation

The Government has delivered the first draft of its FOFA legislation, confirming the two-year opt-in and a proposed ban on asset-based fees with respect to gearing....

Financial planning

The integrity of consumer group Choice over its potentially conflicted partnership with One Big Switch has been questioned yet again, with Financial Services Council chie...

Editorial

Assistant Treasurer, Bill Shorten, has pointedly excluded the Association of Financial Advisers from those who convinced the Government to concede ground on risk commissi...

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