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FSC supports longer threshold for unclaimed life insurance

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 19 MAR 2015
Financial Services Council chief executive Sally Loane has applauded the Treasury's decision to extend the unclaimed life insurance threshold back to seven years. Since 2012, bank accounts and life insurance policies could be inactive for three years ...

Revised legislation to ease foreign access to local managers

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 13 MAR 2015
... provide foreign investors with clarity and certainty on the tax treatment of their investments," the Financial Services Council chief executive Sally Loane said, following the release of the draft legislation by Treasury. "It removes the tax impediments ...

IGR proves current welfare level is unsustainable: FSC

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 6 MAR 2015
... welfare cannot be sustained and that superannuation will play a key role in addressing the issue, the Financial Services Council (FSC) said. Reacting to the release of the report, FSC chief executive Sally Loane argued that it is a clear signal the status ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 MAR 2015
... Infrastructure NSW, Simon Rothery, CEO of Goldman Sachs in Australia & New Zealand, Sally Loane, CEO of the Financial Services Council. The Australian Broadcasting Digital Media Summit continues in Sydney. No major equities news is expected. In Australia ...

Government seeks further Asia Funds Passport consultation

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 2 MAR 2015
... will work to finalise the arrangements in 2015 with a view to the passport commencing in 2016. The Financial Services Council said welcomed the release of the regional consultation paper. "With 60% of the world's population but only 12% of the worldwide ...

Super not "a top-up" for Age Pension: FSC

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 26 FEB 2015
... top-up" for the Age Pension and the tax treatment of super debate can't be brought up in isolation, the Financial Services Council (FSC) chief executive Sally Loane said in her inaugural speech. "The expectation should be that super is a replacement ...

Australia fails to attract foreign investors: FSC

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 16 FEB 2015
... is preventing Australia from exporting managed funds and its skills in managing foreign capital, the Financial Services Council (FSC) said in its pre-budget submission. The FSC asked the government to consider ways to enhance the export potential of ...

Life insurance commissions must remain an option: AFA

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 FEB 2015
... service. Anderson highlighted that the Life Insurance Working Group, a joint initiative by the AFA and the Financial Services Council (FSC), has set the discussion up over adviser remuneration in life insurance advice. Following criticism by Industry ...

Reconsider life insurance commission ban: ISA

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 10 FEB 2015
... Australia (ISA) said in its submission to the inquiry. ISA noted that the working group, set up by the Financial Services Council (FSC) and the Association of Financial Advice (AFA), said in its interim report that "a no commission arrangement has not ...

When Japan is blah, the Eurozone is ugh and China is wow

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  TUESDAY, 3 FEB 2015
... he said. Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy. The fourth panellist was James Bond, chief economist at the Financial Services Council and previously a senior economic advisor to Kevin Rudd. After the first 30 minutes of the forum was spent on global economies ...