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Financial planning
The Financial Services Council has welcomed the Government’s Budget changes to superannuation while others are seeking more detail....
Life/Risk
Consumers will have the choice between sticking with increasingly expensive features-rich income protection products or moving to more affordable products to be launched ...
Expert Analysis
The Financial Services Council’s Jane Macnamara argues that the use of superannuation is not the answer to Australia’s housing affordability problem....
Superannuation
The Financial Services Council has declared its opposition to people using their superannuation for a first home deposit declaring the argument does not stack up and woul...
Life/Risk
It has welcomed the finding from the draft report of the NSW review of Federal Financial Relations to abolish insurance duties. ...
Financial planning
Superannuation funds would be able to deliver advice around the questions most asked by members via a record of advice under a proposal being backed by the Association of...
Features
The Financial Services Council’s Zach Castles makes the argument for pulling down the barriers to the delivery of scalable advice....
Features
Mike Taylor writes that less than 12 months out from the Australian Securities and Investments Commission’s review of the Life Insurance Framework, the Australian life in...
Financial planning
The Financial Services Council is pushing a scaled advice model to help offset the exodus of advisers....
Financial planning
The Government and regulators should be prepared to consider a limited advice regime covering direct life sales, according to members of a Financial Services Council pane...
Life/Risk
Both the Financial Planning Association and the Association of Financial Advisers have signalled to the Australian Securities and Investments Commission that the future o...
Life/Risk
The industry has an opportunity to reduce the cost of advice and to make the process more efficient and profitable for life/risk advisers, according to MLC....
Superannuation
The Financial Services Council has lent its weight to the SMSF Association’s push to clear the way for self-managed funds to invest in infrastructure....
Life/Risk
The FSC has announced the extension of the frontline healthcare workers and total permanent disability claims initiatives until 1 January, 2021. ...
People & Products
It has appointed four new fund managers to its board and established a new board committee, the Fund Management Board Committee, to drive the strategic policy direction o...
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The succession dilemma is more than just a matter of commitments.This isn’t simply about younger vs. older advisers. It’...
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It's not licensees not putting them on, it's small businesses (that are licensed) that cannot afford to put them on. The...