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People & Products
AMP group executive, advice and New Zealand, Jack Regan has been appointed to the FSC’s board of directors, effective 24 February....
Financial planning
A member of the Senate Economics Committee has described underwriting at time of claim as a 'serious problem' that the industry must address....
Features
The Australian life/risk sector is facing a fundamental reshaping as advisers move beyond the LIF and banks consider their return on investment, Mike Taylor finds....
Financial planning
The Financial Services Council is arguing for more industry self-regulation, describing Trowbridge as the "gold standard"....
Life/Risk
The Australian and New Zealand Institute of Insurance and Finance (ANZIIF) and the Financial Services Council (FSC) have launched the Life Insurance Code of Practice....
Financial planning
While the industry has welcomed the passage of the professional standards bill, Kelly O’Dwyer has reiterated the Government’s arguments against a Royal Commission into ba...
Policy & Regulation
A new analysis has pointed to the removal of trailing commissions as significantly reducing the fees of corporate master trusts....
Editorial
The financial services industry is facing another year of uncertainty but there will be opportunities for it to become the master of its own destiny....
Features
Malavika Santhebennur writes that many policy issues that beleaguered the financial services sector in 2015 remained in 2016, and would continue into 2017....
Financial planning
Industry associations have welcomed the Federal Government’s introduction of the bill to mandate higher education and professional standards for advisers....
Superannuation
The superannuation system needed reform that would promote choice and competition and help become sustainable over the long-term, the FSC said....
Policy & Regulation
The Financial Services Council has conceded that a more exacting MySuper approval process may be needed before all MySuper funds can be offered as defaults....
Editorial
The Government’s creation of an independent standards body will alter the dynamics of the financial planning industry and create a new hierarchy. ...
Life/Risk
FSC releases life insurance Code of Conduct while defining relationship between insurers and advisers as separate and different....
Editorial
Mike Taylor writes that the Productivity Commission’s consideration of alternative default models represents the real superannuation idealogical battleground....
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So we are now underwriting criminal scams?...
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...