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Superannuation

The Financial Services Council has released its superannuation governance policy, which enforces an independent chair and majority independent directors for trustees who ...

Superannuation

Superannuation funds have recorded their strongest growth in total contributions since the GFC, driven by high levels of compulsory employer contributions....

Superannuation

The Corporate Super Specialist Alliance has come out in support of a recommendation put forward by the Productivity Commission in its interim report into default superann...

Editorial

Mike Taylor writes that when FSC chief executive John Brogden announced the framework of new claw-back provisions around the sale of life policies, he reignited a debate ...

Superannuation

The FSC argues for the elimination of industrial relations from the superannuation equation....

Financial planning

Opposition puts regulators and industry funds on notice referencing parliamentary accountability and competitive neutrality....

Life/Risk

Synchron has slammed the FSC's new life insurance churn policy as "disgraceful"....

Superannuation

New Mercer research confirms that advice makes people more proactive about their superannuation....

Financial planning

Both the AFA and FPA have questioned the three-year clawback period outlined in the FSC's new life insurance sales policy. ...

Life/Risk

Financial Services Council chief executive John Brogden has announced a new life insurance sales policy revolving around the clawback of commissions if a policy lapses in...

Policy & Regulation

The regulator has confirmed scaled advice can be provided under best interests duties outlined in Future of Financial Advice changes....

Financial planning

ASIC said it is currently unable to provide clarity on some key licensee concerns....

Financial planning

FSC chief executive John Brogden has indicated the organisation needs to take a stand to more broadly influence greater economic policy....

Policy & Regulation

The Minister for Financial Services, Bill Shorten, has predicted that few of the financial services reforms implemented by the Gillard Government will be amended or repea...

Policy & Regulation

Australia's two financial services regulators have acknowledged the level of stress and uncertainty being experienced by financial services companies as a result of the G...

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