The life insurance industry’s own Life Code Compliance Committee has slammed the insurers for being so inconsistent that the committee has been unable to deliver meaningf...

New data analysed by KPMG has confirmed insurers have paid out double the number of disability claims for policies sold through financial advisers....

Research from the Financial Services Council shows 70% of New Zealanders are unprepared for retirement and there was a strong link to money and well-being. ...

Australian superannuation funds may be talking the talk on ESG but a new study suggests they are not always walking the walk in using their voting power....

The Financial Services Council has welcomed the new legislation but is disappointed the laws also create unnecessary tax compliance burden on Australia’s managed funds....

NSW Liberal Senator and former Financial Services Council policy executive, Andrew Bragg has denied a letter he wrote to constituents on early release superannuation is t...

The Financial Services Council has issued an undertaking on behalf of the major life insurers covering the rights of frontline health and other workers in the face of COV...

There was no consultation with major superannuation fund organisations about the Government’s plan to allow people early access to their superannuation, prompting funds t...

The Government’s income support package to help Australians in financial hardship brought by COVID-19 has been welcomed by the FSC that stressed that super should not be ...

Plaintiff law firm Maurice Blackburn says the major life insurers have been shown to have been persistently ignoring their own code of conduct by a report from the Life C...

The Financial Services Council has backed MySuper members having access to once-off financial advice, rather than ongoing advice with ongoing fees....

Superannuation fund trustees will not be able to resort to members’ funds held in trust to pay civil penalties arising from the new Financial Accountability Regime....

Experience in the United Kingdom suggests it may be a lot more expensive to recruit and retain senior executives under the Government’s proposed new Financial Accountabil...

The Federal Treasurer, Josh Frydenberg has stopped short of restating the Government’s promise to increase the superannuation guarantee, preferring to say that it has no ...