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Bennelong hires for new role

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  MONDAY, 22 MAR 2021
... Craig Bingham. Haqqani was previously a senior policy manager, retirement income and investments at the Financial Services Council and spent four years at Challenger working on retirement income policy and boutiques and investments compliance. She has ...

FSC defends retail super funds

ELIZA BAVIN  |  MONDAY, 22 MAR 2021
The Financial Services Council has hit back at claims made by Industry Super Australia that retail super funds rort members out of billions of dollars. ISA made the statement back in December last year when responding to the Morrison government's announcement ...

Continuous disclosure laws to stay

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 FEB 2021
... addressed, members who are currently in underperforming funds will be stapled to those funds," she said. A Financial Services Council analysis found stapling can save consumers up to $1.8 billion in fees in the first three years after implementation ...

HUB24 completes Paragem sale

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 2 FEB 2021
... Australia. McDonald is also non-executive director of 8IP Emerging Companies and former chair of the Financial Services Council. "The Easton board will be strengthened with Tony's appointment and will benefit from his broad spread of skills and experience ...

FSC appoints new board member

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  MONDAY, 1 FEB 2021
The Financial Services Council (FSC) has appointed MLC Wealth acting managing director Andrew Morgan to its board. Morgan joined MLC Wealth in 2019 as chief corporate services officer before becoming acting managing director in November 2020, after ...

Former UBS GAM executive joins CBA incubator

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 28 JAN 2021
Commonwealth Bank has hired a former UBS Global Asset Management and Financial Services Council executive to chair its fintech incubator business. Ben Heap was appointed non-executive, independent chair of x15ventures, which helps scale startups by ...

The barriers to limited advice: Licensees

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  MONDAY, 11 JAN 2021
... Alexander believes a way for ASIC to support advisers in mitigating these issues echo those of the Financial Services Council (FSC): introducing an entry level type of advice and strategic advice. The FSC launched a report by Rice Warner, Future of Advice ...

FSC names new chair

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 2 NOV 2020
The Financial Services Council has appointed a new chair to replace Geoff Lloyd, who has stood down due to his resignation from MLC Wealth. The role is going to Mercer Australia's recently appointed chief executive David Bryant. Bryant was previously ...

QInsure ramps up claims technology

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 22 OCT 2020
QSuper's insurance arm has upgraded its systems in an effort to streamline the claims management process. QInsure has moved from FINEOS's Claims system to the Claims SaaS edition on the Dublin-based firm's platform. The insurance claims ...

The case for an overhaul of advice: Rice Warner, FSC

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  TUESDAY, 20 OCT 2020
The Financial Services Council (FSC) has launched a report by Rice Warner that makes a series of recommendations that would significantly change the status quo of financial advice and lead to policy debate. Rice Warner's Future of Advice report ...