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The Financial Services Council (FSC) has outlined the importance of policy certainty for...

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The Financial Services Council (FSC) and its fund management members are leading the transition to a...

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The Financial Services Council (FSC) announces the appointment of Renato Mota, Chief Executive...

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The Parliament resumed for its first sitting week and to begin work on the new Government’s ambitious reform agenda. Spanning climate change, industrial relations, aged and health care and the economy, the Government will not be short of challenges to manage over coming months.

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The FSC and its fund management members are leading the transition to a lower emissions economy following the release of guidelines that will help combat climate change and greenwashing.

The FSC is proposing a set of changes to how ASIC supports today’s professional year candidates – the people who work in advice businesses before registering as financial advisers with significant investment in time and training from licensees.

In this video message, CEO Blake Briggs details how the New Life Insurance Code of Practice will introduce over 50 new important consumer protections that cover every aspect of how customers interact with their life insurer.

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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The Financial Services Council and its fund management members are leading the transition to a lower emissions economy following the release of guidelines that will help combat climate change and ...

The Financial Services Council and the life insurance industry have published the new Life Insurance Code of Practice (the Life Code). CEO of the FSC Blake Briggs said the new Life Code introduces...

The Financial Services Council has announced its policy priorities for the next parliament ahead of the #federalelection. Acting CEO of the FSC Blake Briggs, said the report, covering...

About the Financial Services Council's Members

The Financial Services Council (FSC) is a peak body which sets mandatory Standards and develops policy for more than 100 member companies in Australia’s largest industry sector, financial services. Our Full Members represent Australia’s retail and wholesale funds management businesses, superannuation funds, life insurers and financial advisory networks. 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 almost $3 trillion on behalf of more than 14.8 million Australians. The pool of funds under management is larger than Australia’s GDP and the capitalisation of the Australian Securities Exchange, and is the fourth largest pool 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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