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SGE extension could hurt small entities: FSC

HARRISON WORLEY  |  THURSDAY, 16 JAN 2020
The Financial Services Council has expressed its concerns with draft legislation seeking to extend the definition of significant global entities to ensure multinational tax avoidance rules apply to all relevant entities. In its submission to the government's ...

FSC, super sector steps up for bushfire affected

HARRISON WORLEY  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 JAN 2020
... debate over whether early access to superannuation savings should be made available. This week the Financial Services Council launched a tool to help bushfire affected Australians and their beneficiaries locate life insurance policies in the event they ...

APRA releases MySuper heat map

HARRISON WORLEY  |  TUESDAY, 10 DEC 2019
... lobbying movement united in stressing the importance of taking a cautious approach to the heat map. Financial Services Council chief executive Sally Loane said it should be understood that the heat map was a snapshot of a point in time, and not the whole ...

Why joint effort is required in advice

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  THURSDAY, 5 DEC 2019
... Financial Advisers Association and John Maroney from the SMSF Association. Representatives from the Financial Services Council, Association of Superannuation Funds of Australia, the Australian Financial Complaints Authority, the Tax Practitioners Board ...

Super fund PDSs to include single cost of product figure

HARRISON WORLEY  |  FRIDAY, 29 NOV 2019
... to Report 581, Darren McShane's review of RG97 earlier this year. Responding this afternoon, the Financial Services Council said it welcomed several of the changes to RG97, with FSC chief executive Sally Loane describing ASIC's update as a "positive ...

FSC hails super choice amendments

HARRISON WORLEY  |  THURSDAY, 28 NOV 2019
The Financial Services Council has praised the government for introducing amendments to superannuation laws. The introduction to parliament of amendments to superannuation laws to allow workers in new enterprise agreements to choose their own superannuation ...

Colonial First State appoints former Schroders chief

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 26 NOV 2019
... was Schroders Australia's chief executive for 12 years ending December 2018. He also served as the Financial Services Council's deputy chair and director for 10 years. He currently holds directorships at Tcorp, Perpetual and OpenInvest. He joins the ...

FSC, ISA face off over APRA heat map

HARRISON WORLEY  |  MONDAY, 18 NOV 2019
... superannuation have taken vastly different positions on APRA's recently unveiled MySuper heat map. The Financial Services Council and Industry Super Australia have aired uniquely different perspectives on APRA's new MySuper heat map, with the FSC urging ...

Defined contribution: A global perspective

HARRISON WORLEY  |  THURSDAY, 14 NOV 2019
... second day of the ASFA Conference in Melbourne, Challenger retirement income chair Jeremy Cooper led Financial Services Council New Zealand chief executive Richard Klipin and president and chief executive of the United States' Employee Benefit Research ...

Calls for clarity on personal advice in DDO

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 11 NOV 2019
... of platform operators in the design and distribution obligations legislation must be clarified, the Financial Services Council has argued in its submission. When financial advisers use a platform to implement personal advice for a client, the platform ...