tim wilson

Financial planning

Former economics committee chair Wilson plots political return

Former chair of the House of Representatives’ Standing Economics Committee, Tim Wilson, is planning a return to politics after losing his seat in the 2022 federal electio...

Policy & Regulation

Independents triumph over Liberal candidates

Treasurer Josh Frydenberg has most likely lost his seat in this year’s Federal election while Liberals Jason Falinski and Tim Wilson, chair and former chair of the House ...

Superannuation

ASIC looks into super performance disclosure

The corporate regulator has been probed on if it has been investigating whether Industry Super Australia engaged in misleading or deceptive conduct regarding claims of su...

Outsider

A zero for Australia’s climate policy

After years discussing the ins and outs of superannuation, Tim Wilson, has been thrown in the deep end with his new Parliamentary role, defending the Government’s controv...

Outsider

A change in the chair

Outsider noticed a definite change in the air this month and wondered if it was the onset of spring or Sydney coming out of lockdown....

Superannuation

IFM confident Sydney Airport acquisition doesn’t break anti-trust laws

The industry superannuation fund investment manager is confident its consortium aiming to acquire all shares in Sydney Airport is compliant with the Airport Act....

Editorial

Is the Government’s inquiry into capital concentration a result of their own doing?

While the Government has called the inquiry “urgent”, what is perhaps more urgent is handling the advice industry given droves of advisers are leaving the industry due to...

Outsider

A brutalist WA quarantine

Outsider felt a number of feelings he had never felt before while watching a recent Parliamentary hearing – fear, dread, and slight panic. ...

Superannuation

Super mergers lead to unintended common ownership issues

As the Government grapples with the superannuation industry having too much control over capital, its push for super mergers is having the unintended consequence of furth...

Superannuation

Do super funds have too much ‘clout’?

Accused of being the power brokers behind the ousting of former Westpac chief executive Brian Hartzer, a Parliamentary enquiry has questioned two of the big four banks wh...

Financial planning

Have NAB and Westpac sufficiently progressed RC recommendations?

The two banks will be probed by a parliamentary committee on its Royal Commission recommendation implementation progress along with implications of common ownership and c...

Outsider

Do dreams ever come true?

Outsider does not have many, or any, big dreams. All Outsider ever needs to feel content is a single malt, regular golf sessions, and Mrs O not yelling at him. Though, it...

Financial planning

Regulator and industry super to blame for advice accessibility?

Liberal members Jason Falinski and Tim Wilson have concluded the corporate regulator and industry super funds are beneficiaries of Australians being unable to access fina...

Financial planning

Rise in financial advice costs ‘distressing’: Parliamentary committee chair

Many of the remaining Hayne Royal Commission recommendations will do nothing more than harm and damage ordinary Australian consumers, a member of a parliamentary committe...

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. ...