Future Talk - the future of financial services

AFA CEO Phil Kewin explores how different industry stakeholders can work together to achieve common goals, using Labor’s recent controversial franking credits proposal as an example.

In this episde, Bryce Doherty at UBS Asset Management speaks to Association of Financial Advisers (AFA) CEO Phil Kewin about the detrimental effects recent regulatory reforms – FASEA, in particular – have had on financial advice, and how long he predicts it will take for the industry to put itself back together.

Given his position at MLC, Geoff Lloyd is intimately familiar with the current challenges facing Australian wealth management. But in this video, he explores the ways in which the industry can move past these difficult times.

With financial advice becoming more difficult (and more expensive) to provide than ever before, Geoff Lloyd makes the case for a complete overhaul of the regulatory framework underpinning it. Is it time for a change – or has advice been tinkered with enough?

What’s being lost in the tribal arguments between retail and industry super funds? As Geoff Lloyd discusses, quite a bit.

In this episode of Future Talk, MLC CEO Geoff Lloyd talks about what’s in store for MLC following the NAB demerger and how the company is navigating a post-Royal Commission financial services sector.

How technology is enabling better engagement for consumers with their superannuation is a hot topic. In this episode, Sally Loane at the FSC shares with Bryce Doherty at UBS Asset Management how although there continues to be innovations in digital tools, there’s still some way to go for financial services to improve efficiencies around the big barriers to entry and compliance costs, and people’s engagement with their super.

We are arguably at a point where we need to be thinking about using superannuation to really reduce the burden on taxpayers with the government funded pension. In this episode, Sally Loane discusses with Bryce Doherty that although superannuation had developed significantly, there are still a lot of reforms that we need to achieve.

In this episode, Sally Loane at the FSC shares with Bryce Doherty at UBS Asset Management her passion for financial advice and how added complexity and compliance hurdles mean costs are only increasing.

In this episode of Future Talk, Bryce Doherty speaks to FSC CEO Sally Loane, about how Australian politics have become more polarised than ever before.

Watch candid conversations with leaders on the future of the financial services industry where they discuss market evolution, strategy and change.

Senator Andrew Bragg discusses the need in a cultural shift around how Australian’s perceive technology, and it being seen as a threat to people’s jobs. He also shares his thoughts on why the government has a long way to go in areas compared to other markets.

In this episode, Bryce Doherty discusses with Senator Andrew Bragg about the evolution of superannuation, the Productivity Commission, and the question of if people who are on a wage below $50,000 should have the option to opt in and opt out.

In this episode, Senator Andrew Bragg talks to Bryce Doherty at UBS Asset Management about ending grandfathering: the impacts on advisers and whether they could've done more to prepare.