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Frydenberg slams modern awards as poorly-conceived

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 7 AUG 2015
... reform the current "poorly-conceived" selection process of default superannuation funds. Speaking at the Financial Services Council (FSC) annual conference he said: "Opening the superannuation market to competition will require consideration of an alternative ...

Super board changes ignore past lessons: Bowen

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 7 AUG 2015
... changes to superannuation fund boards ignore the lessons learnt from the HIH disaster. Speaking at the Financial Services Council annual conference, Bowen quoted Justice Neville Owen in his capacity at the HIH Royal Commission and said any attempt to ...

MySuper fee savings can be doubled

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 6 AUG 2015
... about 10% in fees by 2018 with most of those savings coming from the retail sector," he said at the Financial Services Council (FSC) Conference in the Gold Coast. Benefits did arise from scale with larger funds exhibiting lower fees. However, there is ...

FSC calls for 12% super by 2022

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 6 AUG 2015
Financial Services Council chief executive Sally Loane has called for a bipartisan commitment to 12% superannuation contributions by 2022 in her keynote speech to the FSC Annual Conference on the Gold Coast. "With average balances still low - at $70,000 ...

Adapt or die, asset managers warned

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 AUG 2015
... under half expect competition from new entrants to the market. The research was launched during the Financial Services Council (FSC) Annual Conference in the Gold Coast. Generally speaking, managers are reshaping their product mix and see innovation ...

Market to open lower

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 AUG 2015
... interest rate review. The CAPA Corporate Travel & Airport Innovation Summit continues in Sydney while the Financial Services Council holds its annual conference in Brisbane. In equities news, Skilled Group is expected to post full year results. In Australia ...

China FTA gives Australia "first mover advantage"

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 3 AUG 2015
... of the Parliamentary Joint Standing Committee on Treaties on behalf of the funds management sector, Financial Services Council (FSC) director of policy Andrew Bragg said: "ChAFTA builds the architecture we need to compete in the Asian century. It gives ...

Super groups call for women Senate review

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 30 JUL 2015
... themselves up to legal challenges for paying their women employees more super than their male employees." Financial Services Council chief executive, Sally Loane, said there is currently a retirement savings gap of over $330 billion for women in Australia. ...

NZ looks to Trowbridge for life reforms

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 28 JUL 2015
New Zealand's Financial Services Council (FSC) has commissioned a report on life insurance advice, with Life Insurance and Advice Working Group chair John Trowbridge selected as an adviser for the project. Consulting actuaries Melville Jessup Weaver ...

Industry giants ramp up adviser ethics training

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 28 JUL 2015
... (ASIC), Association of Financial Advisers (AFA), Financial Planning Association (FPA), SMSF Association, Financial Services Council (FSC) and the Australian Bankers' Association (ABA). It is governed by The Banking and Finance Oath (BFO), formed to reinforce ...