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Financial planning

Key insurance group, ClearView has warned a Parliamentary Committee that a push for standardised policy terms being led by the Financial Services Council could amount to ...

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Financial planning

New survey data suggests life insurance industry executives fear the Life Insurance Framework will act as a disincentive to university graduates considering becoming life...

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Financial planning

The Financial Services Council has come out in support of the Government’s toughened-up corporate misconduct penalties, following the discoveries by the Royal Commission ...

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Features

Mike Taylor writes that a combination of circumstances may leave the financial services industry no option other than to embrace open Approved Product Lists....

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Financial planning

The Financial Services Council has urged the Productivity Commission to broaden its “very narrow” definition of vertical integration to make its recommendations more appr...

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Life/Risk

The Financial Services Council has proposed to form a Genetics and Insurance Advisory Council to address advancements in genetical science and how it should apply to the ...

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People & Products

The Financial Services Council has shown its support for AMP’s mental health training by bestowing it with the Innovation in Retail Life Insurance award. ...

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Funds management

A new standard for asset managers, which commenced on 1 January, aims to strengthen the foundations of public trust in the industry....

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Life/Risk

The Financial Services Council has confirmed to a Parliamentary Committee that it wants life insurers to have the right to unilaterally amend policies provided it does no...

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People & Products

The Financial Services Council and the Financial Ombudsman Service have appointed a former ASK risk specialist as chair of the Life Code Compliance Committee....

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People & Products

Senior policy adviser, Blake Briggs has resigned his role at the Financial Services Council....

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Policy & Regulation

The Australian Prudential Regulation Authority has signalled its caution with respect to Financial Services Council lobbying for insurers to be allowed to mortgage the as...

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Superannuation

Challenger’s Yash Sodhi’s ‘Smarter Super’ proposal has won him the 2017 Financial Services Council Future Leaders Award....

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Superannuation

The Minister for Revenue and Financial Services has signalled the development of a retirement income framework beyond the development of CIPRs....

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Editorial

The financial planning industry will need to unite behind higher educational standards and ethics and reject the noisy dissenters if it is to become a profession, Mike Ta...

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