INSIGHTS

News Article

Welcome to Issue 76 of the FSC Policy Update. This article outlines legislative and regulatory...

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News Article

By Blake Briggs, CEO of the FSC Australians would collectively benefit from $16bn more in...

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Media Release

New research released today by the Financial Services Council (FSC) shows that removing barriers...

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Financial services policy and tax settings have been a focus for the Government in the first quarter of the year, and the FSC has been at the forefront of these debates on behalf of FSC members.  

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VIDEOS

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Everybody is talking about the potential uses but also the potential risks of artificial intelligence right now. The FSC welcomed the opportunity to contribute to the discussion on how AI should be regulated in Australia.

The Financial Services Council’s focus on broadening our support for the industry, including policy leadership, compliance simplification, and evidence-based research, has been successful. The FSC has been growing its membership and I am pleased...

Advice licensees are absorbing increasing levels of regulatory cost that the FSC is advocating be reduced. In this clip, Zach Castles talks about the FSC's policy and advocacy agenda for licensees as they grapple with a changing landscape.

The FSC was proud to launch the FSC Women in Investment Management Charter (WIM Charter) at a recent joint event with Mercer, which delivered solutions to improve gender diversity in investment management. As part of the WIM Charter launch, we surveyed our domestic and global fund manager members on gender diversity in their investment teams, focusing on roles that are actively involved in an investment function or that have an investment execution role, such as portfolio managers, investment research roles or traders, for example. 

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SOCIAL

We are delighted to announce three new senior industry leaders who have joined the speaker line-up for our Trans-Tasman Strategic Leaders’ Summit with Financial Services Council New Zealand in...

It was a great pleasure to host the Assistant Treasurer the Hon Stephen Jones at an FSC Political Series breakfast event this morning to hear more details about the Government’s plan to reform...

The FSC was pleased to host an insightful discussion on the opportunities to invest in new financial advice solutions for consumers should the Government take an ambitious approach to regulatory...

About the Financial Services Council's Members

The FSC is a peak body which sets mandatory Standards and develops policy for more than 100 member companies in one of Australia’s largest industry sectors, financial services.

Our Full Members represent Australia’s retail and wholesale funds management businesses, superannuation funds, life insurers and financial advice licensees. Our Supporting Members represent the professional services firms such as ICT, consulting, accounting, legal, recruitment, actuarial and research houses.

The financial services industry is responsible for investing more than $3 trillion on behalf of over 15.6 million Australians. The pool of funds under management is larger than Australia’s GDP and the capitalisation of the Australian Securities Exchange, and is one of the largest pools of managed funds in the world.

INTERNATIONAL INVESTMENT FUNDS ASSOCIATION

The Financial Services Council (FSC) is a member of The International Investment Funds Association (IIFA), an association which provides a forum for global information- sharing and collaboration to promote the investment fund industry.

Find out more about the IIFA here: www.iifa.ca

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