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Financial planning

The deregulation minister should be present at financial services meetings to start reducing red tape and the sooner red tape has been reduced the better, according to a ...

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Financial planning

Financial advice needed to focus on improving the value of advice, rather than focusing solely on the cost, according to a panel....

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Financial planning

Regulatory reform, technology and some form of subsidisation are needed to fix advice, according to the FPA chief executive....

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People & Products

Blair Vernon is only the acting chief executive of AMP Australia but he has been appointed to the board of the Financial Services Council....

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Expert Analysis

Financial Services Council policy manager – advice, Zach Castles, argues that regulatory pragmatism can help reduce the cost of financial advice....

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Superannuation

The release of pre-Budget submissions suggests the Financial Services Council was influential in the Government’s decision to introduce super account stapling and perform...

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Financial planning

The guide from the Financial Services Council provides tips and guidance on how firms could improve their gender diversity in their firm. ...

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Financial planning

The COVID-19 pandemic could act as the catalyst for regulatory pragmatism aimed at lowering the cost of advice, according to the Financial Services Council....

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Financial planning

The Financial Services Council has welcomed the Government’s Budget changes to superannuation while others are seeking more detail....

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Life/Risk

Consumers will have the choice between sticking with increasingly expensive features-rich income protection products or moving to more affordable products to be launched ...

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Expert Analysis

The Financial Services Council’s Jane Macnamara argues that the use of superannuation is not the answer to Australia’s housing affordability problem....

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Superannuation

The Financial Services Council has declared its opposition to people using their superannuation for a first home deposit declaring the argument does not stack up and woul...

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Life/Risk

It has welcomed the finding from the draft report of the NSW review of Federal Financial Relations to abolish insurance duties. ...

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Financial planning

Superannuation funds would be able to deliver advice around the questions most asked by members via a record of advice under a proposal being backed by the Association of...

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Features

The Financial Services Council’s Zach Castles makes the argument for pulling down the barriers to the delivery of scalable advice....

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Glad to see the back of you Steve. You made financial more expensive, not more affordable as you claim, and presided ...

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Completely agree Peter. The definition of 'significant change is circumstances relevant to the scope of the advice' is s...

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The corporate regulator has cancelled the AFSL of a Queensland-based financial services provider, having held the licence since mid-2016....

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ASIC has cancelled the AFSL of a Sydney-based advice firm, describing how it demonstrated “competency failures” in its activities. ...

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