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No returns in sight for AAP investors

ALLY SELBY  |  TUESDAY, 21 JUL 2020
... the newswire, include Samuel Terry Asset Management's Fred Woollard, Australian Impact Investments' Kylie Charlton and Wilson Asset Management's Geoff Wilson. "As an investor, the strange thing is to put money in and there be no return," Wilson told ...

WAM makes alternatives play

ALLY SELBY  |  THURSDAY, 16 JUL 2020
Geoff Wilson's $3 billion Wilson Asset Management has acquired the management rights for embattled alternatives investment company Blue Sky. On May 20 last year, Blue Sky Alternative Investments announced it had been forced into receivership, with Oaktree ...

ME Bank chief resigns

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  TUESDAY, 14 JUL 2020
... of June, McPhee appeared before the Standing Committee on Economics where he faced tough questioning from Liberal MP Tim Wilson over the bank's handling of the adjustment of redraw balances for some mortgage customers. Earlier in the year, Wilson ...

WAM makes replacement bid for Keybridge

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 7 JUL 2020
... share. The new offer is higher than the previous offer of 6.5 cents per share, made in April 2020. WAM Active chair Geoff Wilson said the new offer price should be compelling to Keybridge investors given it has historically traded at a discount to its ...

IFM adds to leadership

HARRISON WORLEY  |  FRIDAY, 19 JUN 2020
... within its business and the demand for an APRA investigation into industry funds by Standing Economics Committee chair Tim Wilson. In a letter to Wilson, IFM Investors chair Greg Combet asked for a wider investigation spanning retail and wholesale managed ...

ISA plays devil's advocate on SG

HARRISON WORLEY  |  MONDAY, 15 JUN 2020
... borne at least in some part by workers, with employers taking the rest of the impact. The research, submitted to the Tim Wilson-chaired House of Representatives Standing Committee on Economics, attempted to put an end to the arguments of ISA's adversaries ...

FASEA extension hits snag

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  FRIDAY, 12 JUN 2020
... supported it. "The companies on this list are very rich people, very powerful people," she said. Greens Senator Peter Which-Wilson said the Greens would support the amendment too, and that the party had proposed a similar measure before. The Stockbrokers ...

WAM responds to Keybridge claims

ALLY SELBY  |  FRIDAY, 5 JUN 2020
Wilson Asset Management has responded to allegations by Keybridge Capital, noting the investment manager has already failed twice in previous attempts to obtain orders of this kind. WAM Active said it was seeking appropriate legal advice and would respond ...

IFM Investors hits back at MP demanding probe

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 4 JUN 2020
Greg Combet has written to Standing Economics Committee chair Tim Wilson, rejecting the latter's claims of a conflict of interest in IFM's business and the demand for an APRA investigation into industry funds. Last month, Wilson wrote to APRA asking ...

Asgard, Future Super shamed on ERS

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  THURSDAY, 4 JUN 2020
... release by the Australian Tax Office. Labor MP Andrew Leigh expressed concern that chair of the commission Liberal MP Tim Wilson was only enquiring about conflicts of interests in industry superannuation funds and not in retail funds. "I have not written ...