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Peter Costello steps down from Future Fund

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  MONDAY, 9 OCT 2023
... superannuation obligations without placing an undue burden on future generations, they said. Meanwhile, today the Financial Services Councils (FSC) of Australia and New Zealand revealed that Costello will headline the first Trans-Tasman Strategic Leaders ...

Climate science skills needed in financial services

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  TUESDAY, 2 NOV 2021
... the COP26 summit continues, an industry body is calling on the need for greater climate science skills in the financial services industry. FINSIA believes without climate science skills, financial services organisations are at a great risk of negatively ...

Commissions likely to stay: Hume

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 22 APR 2021
... has acknowledged that commissions are an acceptable form of remuneration," Hume told yesterday's Financial Services Council Life Insurance Summit. "I recognise that a flat fee charged for advice can be a challenging business proposition." In the ...

Government merges advice reviews

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 APR 2021
... economy and women's economic security Jane Hume announced this morning. Speaking at the annual Financial Services Council Life Insurance Summit, Hume highlighted areas that overlap across the two reviews that prompted the move. Under Treasury's new ...

Law firm slams insurer mental health policies

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  FRIDAY, 14 AUG 2020
... treating doctors in order to pressure workers back to work or to otherwise minimise costs." At the recent Financial Services Council Life Insurers Summit, assistant minister for superannuation, financial services and financial technology Jane Hume said ...

Life insurance at tipping point: Industry leaders

ALLY SELBY  |  FRIDAY, 31 JUL 2020
... current legacy business models and products hinder the growth and sustainability of the industry. Speaking at the Financial Services Council's (FSC) 2020 Life Insurance Summit, APRA general manager of life insurance Suzanne Johnson, RGA Australia ...

Life insurance needs to prove value

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 JUL 2020
... specifically around group insurance, the FSC Life Insurance Summit has heard. KPMG, on behalf of the Financial Services Council (FSC), revealed there was more than $12 billion in claims paid to more than 100,000 Australians during 2019. FSC senior policy ...

APRA intervention blindsided AFA, FPA taskforce

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  TUESDAY, 28 JUL 2020
At the Financial Services Council Life Insurance Summit, the heads of financial advice industry associations admitted to being blindsided by APRA's intervention on individual disability income insurance. Association of Financial Advisers chief executive ...

Hume calls out ERS fake news

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  MONDAY, 27 JUL 2020
At the Financial Services Council Life Insurance Summit Senator Jane Hume has said "fake news" about consumers losing life insurance due to the early release of super has irritated her. Hume said consumers would not lose life insurance policies held ...

Advice association merger up to members

HARRISON WORLEY  |  THURSDAY, 29 AUG 2019
... to Financial Planning Association of Australia chief executive Dante De Gori. Speaking at the Financial Services Council Summit in Sydney this week, the head of the FPA said the advice industry was still being "ripped apart" in Canberra for not showing ...
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