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Advice should be treated with the respect given to doctors or lawyers as the industry has successfully improved itself to become a profession, according to Financial Serv...

Financial planning

The Financial Services Council has promoted Blake Briggs to chief executive, following his three months spent leading the council in an acting capacity. ...

Financial planning

Industry associations have welcomed the Federal Budget for providing stability by leaving superannuation unchanged but believe mums will be left behind....

Financial planning

Moving to Letters of Advice, abolishing safe harbour steps to comply with best interest duty and indexing the wholesale assets test are among proposals made by the Financ...

Superannuation

Labor would not make any “wholesale changes” to Your Future, Your Super reforms but has instead committed to tweaking aspects of it in response to emergent challenges tha...

Life/Risk

The Financial Services Council has urged Australians who have lost their life insurance policies due to recent flooding to utilise the FSC’s services to help them find ou...

Superannuation

Superannuation funds have been told they will not face regulatory action if they seek to divest Russian assets, although the closure of the Russian stock market is making...

Financial planning

The ability to access free online information about financial services law should be a priority for the Government before any reform of the Corporations Act, the Financia...

People & Products

Challenger chief executive and managing director, Nick Hamilton, has joined the board of the Financial Services Council....

Superannuation

The Financial Services Council has welcomed the bipartisan support for the Retirement Income Covenant and Corporate Collective Investment Vehicle....

Financial planning

The Financial Services Council is hoping the Quality of Advice review will chart the course to end two decades of regulatory encroachment on the advice industry....

Policy & Regulation

Greater oversight from the corporate regulator of financial and compensation arrangements will reduce unpaid determination risk and ensure the CSLR operates as a genuine ...

Superannuation

Despite questions being raised about the appropriateness and accuracy of the prudential regulator’s heatmaps, they do underscore the importance of advice, the Financial S...

People & Products

Deputy chief executive, Blake Briggs, has been appointed as acting CEO of the Financial Services Council as Sally Loane steps down on 23 December, 2021....

Life/Risk

The enforceable standard will remove 87% of all occupational exclusions and occupation based restrictive disability definitions that currently exist in the industry by 1 ...

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