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Budget 2011: "Benign" Budget a relief for finance sector

ALISON BEVEGE  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 MAY 2011
... to 12 per cent were functions of a budget that commentators labeled bland. "No news is great news," Financial Services Council chief executive John Brogden said of the budget, adding that minor tinkering with super and fewer tax changes meant it was ...

FOFA leaves consumers in the cold

MATT WOODINGTON  |  THURSDAY, 28 APR 2011
... the advisers, as their barriers to providing advice have gone up and the consumers," said Klipin. The Financial Services Council (FSC) agreed that the reforms would increase the cost of financial advice and reduce its availability to consumers. The FSC ...

ANZ Wealth head joins FSC

ELISE BURGESS  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 APR 2011
ANZ Wealth managing director, John Van Der Wielen, has joined the Financial Services Council board as a director. He joins 12 other board members including Craig Meller, managing director, AMP Financial Services and Brad Cooper, chief executive, BT ...

Funds to talk insurance

ALISON BEVEGE  |  FRIDAY, 8 APR 2011
... - not just by setting a minimum level of default cover. Green told the conference, organised by the Financial Services Council, that although mortality rates were flattening, death claims were rising because historically many people were totally unaware ...

Roadmap to life insurance

ELISE BURGESS  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 APR 2011
... advisers, good reforms and consumer education according to three key insurance figures speaking at the Financial Services Council Life Insurance Conference today. In the first session for the day in Sydney, Geoff Summerhayes, chief executive, Suncorp ...

Rising oil prices add to sovereign risk

ALISON BEVEGE  |  TUESDAY, 22 MAR 2011
... Vamos, chief executive of ASFA, said the joint benchmark, developed by ASFA in conjunction with the Financial Services Council, ASIC, and the Australian Prudential Regulatory Authority, would be finalised in the next two months. "It will start to create ...

Last call for your say on law change

ALISON BEVEGE  |  FRIDAY, 18 MAR 2011
... and the proposed introduction of the foreign accumulation fund rules," Treasury said by email. The Financial Services Council has said it is aware of the changes but did not return calls on the issue. Submissions may be emailed and the link plus the ...

Annuities help combat longevity risk: Cooper

ELISE BURGESS  |  FRIDAY, 4 MAR 2011
... advocating the removal of unintended impediments to the issuance of deferred lifetime annuities, with the Financial Services Council (FSC) now supporting that stance. Within the FSC's pre-budget submission to the Government released last month, the body ...

Coalition introduces bill to abolish SG age limit

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 MAR 2011
... individuals aged 50 and over who have balances below $500,000. John Brogden, chief executive of the Financial Services Council said this would go a long way to delivering Australians an adequate retirement. "Raising the contribution caps recognises that ...

Opposition slams opt-in policy

MATT WOODINGTON  |  MONDAY, 28 FEB 2011
... must not prevent advisers doing what they do best, which is providing advice to clients," he said. The Financial Services Council recently said that it accepts the general principles of opting in or opting out. It said it would accept the concept provided ...