tim wilson

Financial planning

Industry challenged by falling advisers but growing demand

There will be a problem in the next five years as falling adviser numbers coincide with more households seeking advice, according to Easton Investments. ...

Superannuation

AustralianSuper queried on data handed to The New Daily

The superannuation fund has said it would hand over its members’ first names and emails to the publication if an arrangement were to go ahead. ...

Superannuation

CFS states opposition to tapping super for home loans

Colonial First State has left a key Parliamentary Committee in no doubt that it is opposed to people being allowed to use their superannuation to help fund a first home d...

Funds management

Wilson continues parliamentary probing of IFM

Industry funds-owned fund manager, IFM has complained it is the only fund manager to be called before a House of Representatives Committee and that it has already answere...

Superannuation

How AustralianSuper directed nearly $19m to ISA

The millions of dollars being directed to Industry Super Australia by affiliated industry superannuation funds is becoming progressively clearer because of answers being ...

Superannuation

Wilson's probing questions confirm super negativity

Questions posed via a Parliamentary Committee may have been aimed at extracting expenditure information from major superannuation funds but they have confirmed just how d...

Outsider

Will the real Tim Wilson please stand up?

Outsider is giving 10 out of 10 to the Australian Prudential Regulation Authority (APRA) for deftly avoiding becoming entangled in the somewhat arcane politics of superan...

Superannuation

Are industry funds bullying and intimidating the Morrison Government?

Industry funds who have sponsored a major television advertising campaign against the Government’s Your Future, Your Super legislation have been accused of seeking to bul...

Funds management

IFM Investors denies misleading key Parliamentary Committee

Industry funds-backed investment manager, IFM Investors has declared as “false and misleading” research house claims that it misled a Parliamentary Committee over the val...

Superannuation

The average super early access recipient has 30 years to make it up

As Government back-benchers canvass allowing people to opt out of a higher superannuation guarantee, data provided to a Parliamentary Committee suggests people have littl...

Superannuation

Did Superstream cost more to implement than it returned?

Superannuation funds have told a Parliamentary Committee that the costs of implementing Superstream were so high that they offset any immediate cost-savings....

Policy & Regulation

Have politicians been guilty of providing unlicensed advice?

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission is again being asked whether politicians have been guilty of providing unlicensed advice over their urging of people ...

Superannuation

UniSuper explains former executive’s $1.1m COVID-19 investment switching

Industry fund, UniSuper has gone to the trouble of explaining to a Parliamentary Committee how a former senior executive of the fund switched investments around the time ...

Policy & Regulation

Have industry funds confounded APRA on political donations?

The Australian Prudential Regulation Authority has admitted that the structures surrounding Industry Super Australia and Industry Fund Services have precluded it finding ...

Superannuation

Industry fund declares clean hands on investment switching

Faced by suggestions of an investigation by the Australian Securities and Investments Commission, industry fund NGS Super has declared clean hands on investment switching...