Industry Insights
Event Wrap-Up - Meeting Consumers Where They Are: FSC Unpacks Digital Financial Advice
On 14 April 2026, the FSC launched its latest research, The Role and Value of Digital Advice in Australia. Bringing together industry leaders across superannuation, financial advice businesses, and digital advice providers, the event examined how digital financial advice is being deployed in practice and what it means for the future of the advice ‘ecosystem’.
FSC Leads the Conversation on Innovation in Retirement
The Financial Services Council’s Innovation in Retirement forum, held in Sydney on 16 October 2025, welcomed a capacity audience of over 280 attendees from more than 80 companies. Drawing on its deep connections across industry, government, and regulation, the FSC brought together CEOs and senior leaders from the retirement and superannuation landscape—including leading retail and not-for-profit funds, regulators, institutional investors, technology experts, and financial advice businesses—to explore the future of retirement in Australia.
Event wrap-up - Shaping Advice in a Time of Change
By the FSC Advice Team The Financial Services Council’s Shaping Advice in a Time of Change was a sell-out event, drawing 275 attendees from across the financial advice ecosystem in Sydney on 30 July.
Op-Ed - Reduce the red tape and make it cheaper for ordinary punters to find reliable financial advice
By Blake Briggs, CEO of the FSC There’s an old joke, that the only person excited on a Monday is a retired person.
Op-Ed - Financial services industry calls for economic growth agenda
By Blake Briggs, CEO of the FSC The Australian economy is in a malaise, with Gross Domestic Product (GDP) slowing over the course of 2024 and, outside the COVID-19 economic shock, now recording the weakest rate of GDP growth in a generation.
Government responds to the Quality of Financial Advice Review
The Financial Services Council has welcomed the Government’s response to the Quality of Advice Review and its commitment to remove costly red tape imposed on financial advisers this year.