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Wealth CEO's lambast regulatory reforms

BEN COLLINS  |  MONDAY, 10 DEC 2012
... $1.9 trillion wealth management industry think regulation is crippling their productivity, said the Financial Services Council after a survey released today. Many leaders in the wealth management industry don't think that new regulation, such as the ...

IFM partners with AMC

LINDA HAUSKEN  |  FRIDAY, 21 SEP 2012
Industry Funds Management (IFM) has entered a five year partnership with the Asset Management Council (AMC) to deliver risk management and business outcomes to its clients. The partnership will promote a sophisticated and comprehensive approach to asset ...

Online speed nurtures consumer trust

BEN COLLINS  |  TUESDAY, 7 AUG 2012
... reason we are seeing that propensity to transact online is speed," said Lund, speaking at the recent Financial Services Council conference. "I have no doubt that the reason Google is so successful in Australia is because we have really poor broadband ...

ACSA lends weight to ASIC tech focus

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  THURSDAY, 2 AUG 2012
... issues for the association, which it will be addressing in a session to be held this afternoon at the Financial Services Council's Annual Conference. ACSA's primary concern is that the report does not adequately reflect the complexity of the industry. ...

Value still key in insurance

BEN COLLINS  |  THURSDAY, 2 AUG 2012
... [the industry] when we talk about those things," said Clarke, at a panel discussion yesterday at the Financial Services Council conference. Advisers should instead concentrate on creating value for clients, because "the consumer does not care about the ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 22 MAY 2012
... 135.10 points, or 1.09 per cent, to 12,504.48. The S&P 500-stock index climbed 20.77 (1.60 per cent) to 1,315.99, while the tech-rich Nasdaq added 68.42 (2.46 per cent) at 2,847.21. Facebook, which sold 541 million shares to the public on Friday at $38 ...

Trustee reforms risk being neutered

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 26 APR 2012
... trustee company it will not pay the directors of the trustee company. This distinction is what the Financial Services Council was referring to when in their March 2012 statement of their new trustee governance guidelines they said "Remuneration is relevant ...

Super accounts on path for consolidation: Shorten

CLAIRE MCGREAL  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 FEB 2012
... Financial Services Minister Bill Shorten. The Minister was in Melbourne this morning to launch a new Financial Services Council (FSC) and DST Global Solutions survey of over 7.2 million retail and corporate super accounts. The research looked at one ...

Economist and former EU commissioner appointed Italian PM designate

CLAIRE MCGREAL  |  MONDAY, 14 NOV 2011
... slapped on the energy sector. In welcoming Monti's appointment and the formation of a national unity government, European Council President Herman Van Rompuy and European Commission President JosA(C) Manuel Barroso said it was sending out the right message ...

Soft dollar ban impact potential

ELISE BURGESS  |  THURSDAY, 29 SEP 2011
... support the banning on soft dollar benefits which further supports our existing joint venture with the Financial Services Council (FSC) - setting an industry benchmark on how alternative forms of remuneration paid by third parties are managed and dis ...