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Disclosure requirements under industry scrutiny

ELISE BURGESS  |  MONDAY, 12 MAR 2012
The Australian Institute of Superannuation Trustees has queried aspects of the Financial Services Council's new policy requirements on corporate governance. The Financial Services Council (FSC) released its Superannuation Corporate Governance Policy ...

Trustee Corporations Association members join FSC

RACHEL DAVIS  |  FRIDAY, 9 MAR 2012
... Trustee Corporations Association of Australia is formally disbanding, with its members joining the Financial Services Council. Eight private trustee companies and eight Public Trustees will become full members of the Financial Services Council (FSC). ...

FSC makes move on fund governance

ELISE BURGESS  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 MAR 2012
... governance policies to work under after the FSC released its new mandatory policy requirements. The Financial Services Council (FSC) said that there had been a lot of attention recently on the people who sit on the boards of super funds and the standards ...

CIOs see no let up in European debt crisis

CLAIRE MCGREAL  |  TUESDAY, 6 MAR 2012
... risk to returns over the next 12 months. The survey of chief investment officers represented by the Financial Services Council (FSC), including ANZ Wealth, Perpetual, BlackRock, UBS, BT, Schroders, Alliance Bernstein and Colonial First State, found sentiment ...

FOFA discontent rumbles on after PJC findings

CLAIRE MCGREAL  |  THURSDAY, 1 MAR 2012
... concerned groups, contained 15 recommendations, including an unchanged start date for this year. The Financial Services Council (FSC) slammed the Parliamentary Joint Committee (PJC) findings, maintaining the legislation would make financial advice costly ...

Super accounts on path for consolidation: Shorten

CLAIRE MCGREAL  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 FEB 2012
... Financial Services Minister Bill Shorten. The Minister was in Melbourne this morning to launch a new Financial Services Council (FSC) and DST Global Solutions survey of over 7.2 million retail and corporate super accounts. The research looked at one ...

Pricing competition risks net returns from MySuper: FSC

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  THURSDAY, 16 FEB 2012
... challenged by 'white hot' pricing competition that risks an inadequate focus on returns, according to Financial Services Council chief executive, John Brogden. Speaking at a FSC Deloitte Leadership Series lunch yesterday, Brogden said retail and new ...

SuperStream exposure draft a positive step

ELISE BURGESS  |  MONDAY, 13 FEB 2012
... as they will be able to consolidate accounts more efficiently." John Brogden, chief executive of the Financial Services Council (FSC) told Financial Standard that the draft was well received by the industry. "These reforms are long overdue. Standards ...

APRA MySuper changes burden for industry

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  MONDAY, 6 FEB 2012
... thousands of authorisations for each tailored product that is offered for a different employer. The Financial Services Council, in its PJC submission of December 23, believes that, "where the trustee is meeting its licence conditions and statutory obligations ...

FSC chief made chair of Landcom

CLAIRE MCGREAL  |  MONDAY, 30 JAN 2012
Head of the Financial Services Council John Brogden will step down from the board of the Sydney Ports Corporation in the wake of his appointment as chair of another state owned body. New South Wales Planning Minister Brad Hazzard announced on Friday ...