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When all of this is over how do we want financial advice to look?
In the initial stages of the pandemic, writer Elif Shafak, in her recently published essay How to Stay Sane in an Age of Division, recalled seeing signage spring up in parks in London with the question: “when all this is over how do you want the world to be a different place?”.
FSC welcomes new appointment to Board
The FSC welcomes Andrew Morgan, Acting Managing Director of MLC Wealth as a Director to the FSC Board.
Considered design required for timely changes to the super system
Parliament will very soon have the opportunity to debate the Government’s ‘Your Future, Your Super’ reforms that were announced in the October 2020 Budget.
Nothing Shy about the Retirement Review
Policy wonk heaven over the Christmas break will surely be relaxing on the back deck with a beer and a copy of the recently released Retirement Income Review.
Royal Commission recommendations pass Parliament
The Government legislated a second tranche of Royal Commission recommendations, with the Financial Sector Reform (Hayne Royal Commission Response) Bill 2020 passing Parliament on the final sitting day of 2020.
Consumer Data Right (CDR) and the financial services industry
Lisa Schutz is Managing Director of Verifier – a consumer driven data sharing platform that puts people in control of their data to get better service and better outcomes in financial services.
Building momentum behind a simpler and less costly advice value chain
It might be the year all of us wish to forget, but the consequences of COVID-19 have been defining moments for many – and for advice, 2021 is the year in which the industry charts a new course.
Big hitters debate big challenges at inaugural FSC Investment Summit
Climate change. Regulation. COVID-19. Recession. Populism. All these topics and more were tackled by local and international speakers at the FSC’s inaugural Investment Summit this week.
Investment Summit shows capitalism needs ESG
The economist Milton Friedman famously said that in a market economy, ‘there is one and only one social responsibility of business – to use its resources and engage in activities designed to increase its profits so long as it stays within the rules of the game.’
Actuarial Talent in the Year of Pandemic
Christmas is around the corner (sure does not feel like it) but ironically feels premature given the prolonged months of slow activity during 2020 for reasons well-known.
What does competition look like in a Your Super future?
Default super is about to become a whole lot more competitive, but perhaps not in the way many of us imagined.
Future of financial advice debated by industry’s leading lights
Many of Australia’s best and brightest minds in financial services gathered online to help shape the future of financial advice this week.