SALLY LOANE
Financial planning
The FSC said it has begun consulting with its members on the FASEA Standards Blueprint and the two draft legislative instruments....
Superannuation
The Financial Services Council has found that ordinary Australians who are members of large super funds are the biggest group benefiting from franking credit refunds, adv...
Life/Risk
The Financial Services Council wants to extend its insurance code of conduct to “all life insurance distributors”....
Life/Risk
The Financial Services Council has announced that it will place a moratorium on genetic tests for life insurance from July 2019....
Life/Risk
The Joint Parliamentary Committee on Corporations and Financial Services has rebuffed an FSC proposal to allow life/risk insurers to participate in getting injured worker...
Outsider
Outsider was gratified to read that Financial Services Council chief executive, Sally Loane never thought about quitting after what some in the industry believed was a le...
Funds management
Australian and Japanese asset managers, distributors and regulators have expressed their support for the Asia Funds Region Funds Passport....
Policy & Regulation
The Financial Services Council has called on financial institutions to improve their response time to incidents, saying that action was urgently needed if they were going...
Life/Risk
The Royal Commission has raised the issue of the enforceability of the life insurance code of practice, with the Financial Services Council facing tough questions on whet...
Life/Risk
Financial Services Council chief executive, Sally Loane, has admitted to the Royal Commission that insurers effectively pay for their products to be sold by advisers....
Financial planning
The Financial Services Council has come out in support of the Government’s toughened-up corporate misconduct penalties, following the discoveries by the Royal Commission ...
People & Products
The Financial Services Council (FSC) has announced two new board appointments, with Brian Benari becoming co-deputy chairperson and Marianne Perkovic taking up a director...
People & Products
The Financial Services Council has announced the winners of its Life Insurance Awards, with AMP Life and MLC Life Insurance successful in three of the five categories. ...
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....
Policy & Regulation
Financial Services Council chief executive, Sally Loane says that after 15 years of inaction it is time for the Government to clear the way for the rationalisation of leg...
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