In response to ifa’s publication of parts of the FSC’s confidential submission to the LIAWG, chief executive Sally Loane wrote to the editor taking issue with the story and was offered a “right of reply”.
“To suggest the Trowbridge Report mimics the Financial Services Council’s submission to the review … is not only disappointing, it is wrong and attacks the integrity and independence of the Trowbridge process,” Ms Loane said.
“From the outset, there were stringent processes which ensured and protected Mr Trowbridge’s independence.
“In letters published in The Sydney Morning Herald and The Age this week, he said: ‘No single submission substantially captures my recommendations because they constitute a synthesis of selected ideas put forward in different submissions and judgments on my part’.
“Clearly, the Trowbridge Report contained recommendations that were his own. This was also reinforced in Mr Trowbridge’s letters, which stated: ‘There was never any agreement that the report would contain a consensus view. It was always going to be my view informed by submissions and input from insurers, advisers, adviser groups, consumer representatives, regulators and others’.”
AJD, Sally Loane was!
Yes Anti V-I, Trowbridge was just passing the message on from the FSC on what they wanted. That part is obvious. Who was blaming IFA?
That’s right blame the f***ing messenger. IFA journalists just doing their job but good end of town cant stomach transparency. at least someone is on our side
If they had any “integrity” they would publish their submission and justify it.
Integrity does NOT mean telling advisers that they support them and then stabbing them in the back behind closed doors.
if it looks like a duck….
To receive 120 plus submissions and then to basically do a cut and paste of the FSC submission and claim “independence” and “own’ thought is a little hard to swallow Mr Trowbridge and Ms Loane.
Walks like a duck…quacks like a duck