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ISA proposes new restrictions on retail super

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  THURSDAY, 16 OCT 2014
... members. Whiteley made these two proposals in an address to the National Press Club in Canberra yesterday. Financial Services Council (FSC) chief executive John Brogden also spoke at the event, arguing that ISA's proposed measures would "restrict competition ...

FPA appoints new CRC Chair, rolls out education standards

STAFF WRITER  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 OCT 2014
... without being tied to any one association or group," said Rantall as he moved to further isolate the Financial Services Council in its call for a more formal adviser education standards regulator.

AFA questions ASIC life report

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 14 OCT 2014
... this." As a response to the report the AFA has set up a joint life insurance working group with the Financial Services Council (FSC) which will deliver an interim report in December and a final report in 2015. The first meeting of the working group will ...

AFA presents renewed strategy and Narrative

LAURA MILLAN  |  SUNDAY, 12 OCT 2014
... suggest a need to take the issues raised seriously. Fox told media that a working group with ASIC and the Financial Services Council (FSC) will meet on October 27 and is expected to issue an interim report in December.

One third of risk advisers non-compliant, ASIC says

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  THURSDAY, 9 OCT 2014
... found incidents where clients were advised to take out life insurance that they could not afford. The Financial Services Council (FSC) and the Association of Financial Advisers (AFA) have responded to the report by jointly convening a working group to ...

Damien Mu elected to FSC board

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 OCT 2014
AIA chief executive Damien Mu has been elected to the board of the Financial Services Council (FSC). Mu has been with AIA since 2007, and was appointed as chief executive in July this year. Prior to his time at AIA Mu was operations manager for AustralianSuper ...

FSC-ISA battle recommences over MySuper data

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  FRIDAY, 3 OCT 2014
... MySuper data has fuelled the ongoing stoush between the retail and industry superannuation sectors. The Financial Services Council (FSC) claimed that the figures, released yesterday by the Australian Prudential Regulation Authority (APRA), showed retail ...

FSC advice regulation plan leaves AMP cold

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 25 SEP 2014
The Financial Services Council (FSC)'s recently proposed advice regulation plan lacks the support of one of its biggest members. AMP has said it does not believe in a regulatory solution to restore consumer confidence and trust in financial advice ...

Hockey accuses Labor of making "a mess" of FoFA

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 25 SEP 2014
... Labor Member of Parliament Bernie Ripoll asked the Treasurer during question time: "given that the [Financial Services Council] FSC now says more, not less regulation for financial advice and professional standards, why has the government decided to ...

FPA rejects FSC adviser regulation plans

ALICE URIBE, LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 SEP 2014
The Financial Planning Association (FPA) has rejected the Financial Services Council's (FSC) proposal to establish a statutory, independent board to oversee advice, saying that there was no need for further regulation, with the mooted board simply "reinventing ...