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Welcome to Issue 70 of the FSC Policy Update. 

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CEO Update

Financial services policy and tax settings have been a focus for the Government in the first...

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Media Release

The Financial Services Council (FSC) welcomes the Review of the Regulatory Framework for Managed...

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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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There is so much happening across a broad spectrum of areas in financial services innovation. This includes the Federal Government’s strong focus on consumer protection in relation to scams, fraud and cybersecurity.

The FSC’s work with members to develop template TMDs to facilitate compliance with the DDO regime has been an important initiative for the FSC over the past few years. FSC CEO, Blake Briggs shares more here.SC

If implemented, the recommendations of Quality of Advice Review’s Final Report will see millions more Australians accessing financial advice. Hear more from the FSC's Zach Castles.

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

Join us on Tuesday 4 April at 9.00am for an expert briefing with Luke Hastings, Christine Wong, Mark Smyth - Herbert Smith Freehills to discuss the new National Anti-Corruption Commission (NACC). It is...

The FSC invites members to our annual, free post-Budget briefing on Thursday 11 May from the Hon Stephen Jones MP, Assistant Treasurer and Minister for Financial Services. The Assistant Treasurer will...

This will be a significant year for the #financialservices industry, with the new Government finding its feet and progressing a major reform agenda across financial services.Yesterday the FSC policy...

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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