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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...
Superannuation
The Financial Services Council has used Productivity Commission analysis and data to suggest that there is a very significant underperformance problem for not-for-profit ...
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....
People & Products
The Financial Services Council has announced the appointment of Bryce Doherty and Ben Walsh to its board....
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 ...
Life/Risk
The Joint Parliamentary Committee on Corporations and Financial Services has rebuffed an FSC proposal to allow life/risk insurers to participate in getting injured worker...
Funds management
Australian and Japanese asset managers, distributors and regulators have expressed their support for the Asia Funds Region Funds Passport....
Policy & Regulation
The Financial Services Council has called on financial institutions to improve their response time to incidents, saying that action was urgently needed if they were going...
Life/Risk
The Royal Commission has raised the issue of the enforceability of the life insurance code of practice, with the Financial Services Council facing tough questions on whet...
Life/Risk
Financial Services Council chief executive, Sally Loane, has admitted to the Royal Commission that insurers effectively pay for their products to be sold by advisers....
Life/Risk
Financial Services Council chief executive Sally Loane has told the Royal Commission that direct sales of life policies via outbound “cold calls” is viewed as unlawful by...
Superannuation
The Federal Opposition has earned the widespread backing of the financial services industry for its proposed changes to superannuation policy aimed at improving women’s r...
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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...