Ep 81: Raising the voice of the financial sector - Blake Briggs

Listen to Blake Briggs as he shares his diverse career journey through industrial advocacy, superannuation policy and finally to financial services and the FSC. Blake relays the skills, governance processes and overarching consumer lens that assist in creating a unified strong voice for the financial industry through the FSC. He explains how the FSC is engaging a cross-section of licensees, advisers and associations to achieve successful regulatory frameworks and create a healthy sector. Blake outlines that diversity of product options to aid retirement planning will be a big focus for the FSC over the next 12 months and how removing red tape could enable the introduction of overseas technology solutions to deliver advice in new and innovative ways.  Lastly, Blake explains the issues around moving clients from old legacy systems to new products and foreshadows a groundswell of consumer concern around failed products in the coming months for advisers to be aware of.