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FSC report warns of default super 'turmoil'

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  THURSDAY, 24 JUL 2014
... cost $400 million and throw the superannuation of 2.25 million Australians into "turmoil", the Financial Services Council (FSC) has claimed. The FSC's claims come on the back of a report it commissioned which quantified the costs on superannuants, employers ...

FSC's Storniolo leaves to join BT

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 22 JUL 2014
The Financial Services Council (FSC) senior policy manager for advice Cecilia Storniolo left the organisation last week to join BT Financial Group. An FSC spokesperson confirmed that the departure is unrelated to FSC chief executive John Brogden's decision ...

Brogden leaves FSC

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  FRIDAY, 11 JUL 2014
John Brogden will step down as chief executive of the Financial Services Council (FSC) at the end of the year, FSC chairman Greg Cooper has announced. Brogden leaves the role to take up a position as chief executive of the Australian Institute of Company ...

What happened to the ISA-FSC accord?

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 JUL 2014
... In July last year Industry Super Australia (ISA) chief executive David Whiteley stood alongside Financial Services Council (FSC) chief executive John Brogden and announced that the two wings of superannuation would be burying the hatchet. They wouldn't ...

ISA FoFA report sparks industry outrage

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 7 JUL 2014
... campaign on [the Future of Financial Advice] FoFA orchestrated by Industry Super Australia," the Financial Services Council (FSC) said today. In the report, ISA identified nine ways the government's amended FoFA "have brought back commissions and other ...

Super funds procrastinate on holdings disclosure

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  THURSDAY, 26 JUN 2014
... were looking all the way down until you hit rock bottom and you found the last one cent in Zimbabwe," Crich said. "With the FSC, we were trying to lobby Treasury to explain some of the practicalities of the issues with what they were proposing." He said ...

Retail funds also guilty of 'Compare the Pair' vagueness

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  THURSDAY, 26 JUN 2014
... apples with carrots." But Bragg's comments would appear also to apply to the BT and ANZ ads. BT and ANZ are both members of the FSC. The Association of Financial Advisers chief executive Brad Fox said the ASIC ruling demonstrated that ISA could not be ...

Advisers applaud "historic" ban on commissions

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 20 JUN 2014
Financial advice associations and the Financial Services Council (FSC) have applauded the "historic" ban on commissions in general advice and welcomed the government's changes to the Future of Financial Advice (FoFA) law. "We are extraordinarily pleased ...

FSC leads Asia Funds Passport delegation to Korea

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  MONDAY, 16 JUN 2014
... Treasurer Stephen Ciobo will accompany the delegation to Korea, which is one of the six countries to have signed up to the ARFP. FSC chief executive John Brogden: "The Passport has the ability to significantly increase cross-border capital flows and ...

FWC halts default super review

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 JUN 2014
... and that the panel is currently incorrectly constituted according to the Fair Work Act. Both the Financial Services Council (FSC) and Industry Super Australia (ISA) have claimed a victory in the Federal Court, even though the court's orders essentially ...