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Millions of Australians can look forward to a brighter financial future in retirement with the...

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With Financial Services Minister, Hon Stephen Jones, reinforcing no changes to the Terms of...

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ASIC is conducting a targeted consultation in response to a FSC request for life insurers to be...

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Labor was successful in the recent Federal Election and has formed a new Government with a clear list of priorities for the financial services industry.  

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In this video message, CEO Blake Briggs thanks outgoing CEO Sally Loane for her stewardship of the FSC after seven years leading the organisation, and details the advocacy and public policy measures needed as we move into 2022. 

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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SOCIAL

We congratulate Prime Minister Albanese on his election win and look forward to working with Dr Jim Chalmers, Stephen Jones and the rest of Labor’s economic policy team on their election commitments.    

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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