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A group of risk advisers have labelled FSC’s positioning on LIF as cartel behaviour, and said the industry should have gone to the ACCC with its life insurance propositio...
Financial planning
The AFA expressed disappointment over the FSC’s continued calls for a carve-out for direct insurance sales from LIF where no advice was given, and said this loophole must...
Life/Risk
A life/risk adviser group has hit out against the FSC’s call for level commissions in the LIF, and accused it and the big banks of having undue influence on the Governmen...
Financial planning
The FSC has declared it will research whether FOFA actually delivered on making advice more accessible and affordable....
Editorial
The Federal Government has lost sight of the long-run Budget benefit of encouraging retirement incomes self-sufficiency by lowering the concessional super contribution ca...
Financial planning
The Financial Services has given the Federal Budget a mixed reaction, welcoming some changes and condemning others as misdirected....
Editorial
Financial planners and their clients face an inevitable period of uncertainty at a time of continuing volatility if the Government moves for a double dissolution election...
Financial planning
Key consumer groups have been given a chair at the table of the FSC’s Life Insurance Code of Practice processes....
Financial planning
The award winners for the Financial Services Council’s fourth annual Life Insurance Awards have been announced....
Financial planning
ClearView has challenged the standing of the FSC to develop a Life Code or APL Standard....
Superannuation
The FSC, AIST, ASFA and ISA have all welcomed the Government’s move to enshrine superannuation in legislation, and hoped this would bring certainty to super policies. ...
Funds management
A significant proportion of S&P/ASX200-listed companies need to improve their reporting of sustainability factors, as investors increasingly consider ESG risks....
Superannuation
The Government must introduce super policies that take into account gender pay gap, and broken work patterns in women, rather than sticking to policies conducive to full-...
Superannuation
Financial Services Council chief executive, Sally Loane has outlined a six point super plan based on policy certainty, delivery of a 12 per cent SG by 2022 and better tar...
Financial planning
New research confirms that financial planners are playing an integral role in the growth of the financial services industry....
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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...