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Spiro Premetis has started at the FSC as our Executive Director for Advocacy, bringing with him...

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The Financial Services Council (FSC) welcomes the Government’s announcement to regulate proxy...

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The release of the Australian Prudential Regulation Authority’s (APRA) heat maps for MySuper and...

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I am leaving the FSC after seven years – almost to the day – at the end of this year. 

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CEO Sally Loane is leaving the FSC after seven years. In this video message, Sally reflects on her great team and members, and some of the FSC’s collaborative achievements during her time at the helm of our policy and advocacy organisation.

Through the FSC Women in Investment Management Charter we are providing industry leadership to ensure more women can secure careers in investment management teams.

The White Paper findings aims to reduce the regulatory burden on financial advisers – by removing the safe harbour steps and simplifying documentation, disclosure and definitions, the cost of advice can drop by almost $2,000 per client. 

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 today announces the appointment of Blake Briggs as Acting CEO of the #FSC. As Deputy CEO Blake has also led the FSC’s policy team and his appointment will ensure the ...

The FSC welcomes Scott Hartley, CEO, AMP Australian Wealth Management and Michelle Taylor (she/her), Chief Executive, People, Corporate Affairs and Strategy for Challenger Limited as Directors to...

The FSC’s CEO Sally Loane spoke with Aleks Vickovich and others including Amara Haqqani on investing, financial advice and superannuation at yesterday’s The Australian Financial Review Super &...

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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