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Abbott's PPL scheme to hit Australia's charities

ALICE URIBE  |  FRIDAY, 23 AUG 2013
... (PPL) scheme, calling it "a retrograde step of quite enormous proportions." Speaking this morning at a Financial Services Council (FSC) breakfast in Sydney, Bowen said that not only would the policy slug investors and superannuation policy holders to ...

Latest Financial Standard issue available on the iPad app

STAFF JOURNALIST  |  MONDAY, 12 AUG 2013
... for Australian investors. We also take a closer look at the biggest issues discussed at this year's Financial Services Council conference and profile TAL Life Insurance managing director Jim Minto. You can read these articles on your iPad by downloading ...

Stronger Super transparency rules too stringent: FSC

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  FRIDAY, 9 AUG 2013
The Financial Services Council (FSC) has called on Treasury to loosen transparency requirements associated with the Stronger Super reforms, including the product dashboard, portfolio holdings disclosure requirements, and Product Disclosure Statement ...

Election too close to call

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 5 AUG 2013
... policy affecting the nation's superannuation savings still being digested by conference delegates, the Financial Services Council (FSC) invited three leading political commentators to debate just that, and the rest of the big issues influencing this ...

Industry applauds ISN-FSC union

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  MONDAY, 5 AUG 2013
... has reacted positively to Thursday's joint announcement that the Industry Super Network (ISN) and the Financial Services Council (FSC) will form a union. Pauline Vamos, chief executive of the Association of Superannuation Funds of Australia (ASFA), said ...

FSC denounces lost super threshold rise

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  MONDAY, 5 AUG 2013
The Financial Services Council (FSC) has denounced the government's plan to raise the threshold at which inactive superannuation account balances can be transferred to the Australian Taxation Office (ATO). Currently, inactive account balances of under ...

ISN and FSC form 'unprecedented' union

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  THURSDAY, 1 AUG 2013
... and retail superannuation sectors appears to be under construction following an announcement from the Financial Services Council (FSC) - representing retail - and the Industry Super Network (ISN) - representing industry funds. In a joint statement, the ...

Labor pledges five-year freeze on super tax

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 1 AUG 2013
... to discussion and feedback from the financial services industry as well as the wider community. The Financial Services Council (FSC) and the Australian Institute of Superannuation Trustees have both welcomed the proposal. The 2013 FSC Conference is being ...

FSC to support Indigenous financial literacy

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 1 AUG 2013
The Financial Services Council (FSC) has formed a long-term partnership alliance with First Nations Foundation (FNF) to help improve the financial literacy of Indigenous Australians. The FSC will be providing a minimum of $50,000 a year for three years ...

AQUA II exemptions unfairly favour ASX: FSC

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  WEDNESDAY, 31 JUL 2013
The Financial Services Council (FSC) has said that the application form relief being proposed for the ASX Managed Fund Service (AMFS) should be extended to all registered Managed Investment Schemes (MIS). Under current proposals, the AMFS - popularly ...