Michael West

Michael West established Michael West Media in 2016 to focus on journalism of high public interest, particularly the rising power of corporations over democracy. West was formerly a journalist and editor with Fairfax newspapers, a columnist for News Corp and even, once, a stockbroker.

Lax lending standards put consumers at risk

Lenders, aggregators and brokers have hit back at accusations by Choice magazine that ''lax'' lending standards ...

Watchdogs asleep on cosy super cash deal

The superannuation regulator and the competition watchdog are sidestepping concerns that Commonwealth, Westpac, ...

Crafty Kibble must have got lost after leaving North Pole

Comment There is a dashing new corporate raider on the scene. Yet, so elusive is this takeover merchant that the ...

Cash grabs win top gong in year of high achievement

Merry Christmas to all! What a rollicking good year it was. Let us present the 2013 gongs for high achievement in ...

Superannuation: Banks eating into savings

Australians' superannuation cash is being pushed into low-returning savings accounts that help boost the ...

Cold, hard, unyielding cash: how fund managers for the big four short change you

Imagine if the fund manager was BT and its only investment was a bunch of shares in Westpac, which is BT's ...

Horrors continue for insurance giant QBE

It was a horror week for QBE: $6 billion wiped from its market worth, another large earnings downgrade and a ...

The wheels started to fall off a long time ago

Comment When I was a lad'', confided an old-timer many years ago to your humble essayist, ''we used to like ...

Call to pay back hidden dividends

THE peak body for industry superannuation, the Australian Council of Super Investors, has condemned the payment of ...

More questions over ASIC’s super fund insiders

In late 2004, Grant Jones, an in-house lawyer for MLC, went to work for the Australian Securities & ...

Emails reveal special ASIC exemptions for fund managers

Top brass at the Australian Securities and Investments Commission have claimed on a number of occasions that the ...

Tackling the critics over financial service fees

The well-fed passengers on the financial services gravy train have sprung from their premiere classe seats with ...
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