ob体育 today announced the establishment of the Financial Advisers Consultative Committee, designed to improve industry engagement with its regulator, and revealed its initial membership.
'ob体育 has extensive engagement with participants in the financial advice sector as well as financial advice industry bodies and consumer organisations. We saw benefit in extending our interaction with this sector through the establishment of a committee made up of practising advisers,' said ob体育 Deputy Chairman Peter Kell.
The Financial Advisers Consultative Committee (FACC) will supplement ob体育's existing engagement with the financial advice industry by:
- contributing to our understanding聽 of issues in the financial advice industry, including those directly impacting on practising advisers;
- improving ob体育's聽 capacity to identify, assess and respond聽 to emerging聽 trends in the financial advice industry.
The members of the FACC are practising financial advisers with a range of skills drawn from the following areas:
- investment
- insurance
- superannuation
- self-managed superannuation funds; and
- digital financial advice.
The FACC will provide ob体育 with views on a broad range of issues relating to the financial advice industry.
FACC Members
The initial members of the FACC are: Craig Banning, Jennifer Brown, Chris Brycki, Steven Dobson, Mark Everingham, Tony Gillett, Adam Goldstien, Cathryn Gross, Suzanne Haddan and Kevin Smith.
Deputy Chairman Peter Kell said, 'The establishment of this committee is part of ob体育's ongoing commitment to enhancing its engagement with its stakeholders.'