The Australian Securities and Investments Commission is backing the Federal Court’s precedent in the IOOF case on how and when superannuation funds can use member reserve...
Is it just Outsider, or does tyro, hipster NSW Liberal Senator, Andrew Bragg, have an fascination for residential real estate?...
The Australian Securities and Investments Commission has reported it simply became too busy to develop a report around superannuation funds seeking to induce employers to...
There are stories which Outsider would have liked to be the first to tell and then there are stories that Outsider reckons are so good that they need retelling....
Government Senators are claiming vindication because a senior Treasury official has suggested Industry Super Australia may have used inappropriate data to inflate the imp...
NSW Liberal Senator and former Financial Services Council policy executive, Andrew Bragg has denied a letter he wrote to constituents on early release superannuation is t...
The Federal Treasurer, Josh Frydenberg has stopped short of restating the Government’s promise to increase the superannuation guarantee, preferring to say that it has no ...
Questioning by a Liberal Senator has seen the Australian Securities and Investments Commission confirm that Royal Commissioner, Kenneth Hayne, got it wrong on intra-fund ...
The Australian Securities and Investments Commission has confirmed that superannuation funds which pay fines from member’s capital are under no specific obligation to tel...
Outsider does enjoy a good intellectual joust but he also knows when he is out of his league....
NSW Liberal Senator, Andrew Bragg has signalled the prospect of a crack-down on superannuation activists who seek to use member funds to exact influence on listed compani...
The two major industry superannuation fund groups have urged the Government to rule out tampering with or delaying the scheduled increases in the superannuation guarantee...
Outsider notes that former Financial Services Council (FSC) policy executive and long-time political aspirant, Senator Andrew Bragg, delivered his maiden speech in the Se...
Former Financial Services Council policy executive and newly-elected NSW Liberal Senator, Andrew Bragg has pointed to vested interests in the superannuation industry and ...
Greater transparency will help address anomalies in the way in which superannuation fund salaried financial advisers are paid from administration and investment fees, acc...
trustees are already requesting such confirmations when advisory fees (even via fixed term agreements) are deducted from...
CSLR should be broken down into 2 sub sectors, one for product manufacturers and one for financial advisers. Product ma...
We must stand up and show our opposition to both the ASIC Levy and CSLR as they both contribute to the high cost of advi...