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Focus on older men will kill financial planning

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 22 JUL 2016
... for the industry, according to Affinia head Marcus O'Sullivan. Commenting on a panel at the 2016 FSC Leaders Summit in Melbourne, O'Sullivan said the severe lack of diversity in financial planning was a major hindrance to the reputation - and survival ...

Diversity isn't going to a Chinese restaurant: PwC

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 22 JUL 2016
... restaurant now and then, according to PwC partner Ken Woo. Speaking on a diversity panel at the 2016 FSC Leaders Summit in Melbourne, Woo acknowledged a natural bias in the recruitment process where "you find people who look, think and talk like you," ...

"We were wrong about super": FSC chair

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 21 JUL 2016
... according to the Financial Services Council's new chair Geoff Lloyd. Speaking on a panel at the 2016 FSC Leaders Summit in Melbourne, Lloyd said: "The industry was wrong to sell super as a great way to invest. It's a great way to save. Investment should ...

Treasurer ignored credit warnings: Bowen

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 21 JUL 2016
... ignored his warnings that Australia was in danger of losing its AAA credit rating. At the 2016 FSC Leaders Summit in Melbourne, Bowen said that the Coalition has repeatedly ignored warnings from S&P that fiscal policy which relies solely on spending ...

Fund assets surge while market shrinks: FSC/Morningstar

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 21 JUL 2016
... Financial Services Council and Morningstar. The new FSC/Morningstar report, released during the 2016 FSC Leaders Summit in Melbourne, showed that while Australia's financial services industry represents some $2.6 trillion in funds under management, the ...

New $70bn MLC fund gives retail access to unlisted

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 21 JUL 2016
... general manager Paul Carter. Speaking on a panel on superannuation fund scale advantages at the 2016 FSC Leaders Summit in Melbourne, Carter said: "Consolidation gives us better access to best of breed investment options. "Our MLC Private Equity program ...

O'Dwyer says life insurance back on the agenda

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 21 JUL 2016
... the agenda, Minister for Revenue and Financial Services Kelly O'Dwyer said. Speaking at the 2016 FSC Leaders Summit in Melbourne, O'Dwyer noted that "too often" Australians have received bad or inadequate financial advice on life insurance which has ...

ASIC needs to focus on prevention, not cure

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 21 JUL 2016
... proactive regulation, according to Affinia chair Steve Helmich. Speaking on a panel at the 2016 FSC Leaders Summit in Melbourne, Helmich said that ASIC's role is to ensure favourable customer experience based on compliance, while the "fiduciary side" ...

No more inquiries, says FSC

ALEX BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 JUL 2016
... "traffic jam of financial reform" which has cost the industry nearly $3 billion. Speaking at the 2016 FSC Leaders Summit in Melbourne, Loane slammed the number of "substantial" reforms to which the industry has been subjected over the past seven years ...

FSC names new chair

ALEX BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 JUL 2016
... Council chief executive Sally Loane has named the organisation's new chair. Speaking at the FSC Leaders Summit 2016 in Melbourne, Loane said that outgoing chair Greg Cooper would be replaced by Perpetual chief executive Geoff Lloyd. CBA Wealth Management ...