OUTSIDER

Hats off to a certain life insurance sector identity who knows how to leverage both time and space....

Nothing annoys Outsider more than fellow hacks failing to point fingers and name names and so he wants to know the identity of the senior financial services type who, wit...

Well, apologies to Banjo Paterson because Outsider’s working from home arrangements are not quite that bad, although Outsider notes that Banjo, writing Clancy of the Over...

As Outsider sits in his big red leather chair enduring what some are now choosing to call self-isolation, he has been given to reflect that in these days of social media ...

It’s hard to break the habits of a lifetime but even Outsider is putting aside some of his less attractive attributes to meet with company policy during these difficult ...

Outsider felt a pang of disappointment when the CMSF conference in Adelaide was called off due to the ever evolving COVID-19 pandemic. ...

Outsider understands that Liberal back-bencher, Tim Wilson, has been keeping quite a few industry fund officials busy in his role as chair of the House of Representatives...

Outsider has been around long enough to remember the day he switched from noisy typewriters to sleek dumb terminals. ...

Outsider should be feeling a whole lot more relieved after receiving an e-mail from the Treasurer, Josh Frydenberg, assuring him that while Australia faces economic headw...

It is well known there are bad apples in financial services and Outsider is always delighted when the appropriate punishment is meted out....

Outsider had a good chuckle when he was sedately walking down George St in Sydney and saw a large advertisement covering the side of one of the city’s brand-new trams, ex...

Outsider knows that advisers have had to jump through hoops since the Royal Commission, especially the new education requirements....

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So we are now underwriting criminal scams?...

4 months 3 weeks ago

Glad to see the back of you Steve. You made financial more expensive, not more affordable as you claim, and presided ...

5 months ago

Completely agree Peter. The definition of 'significant change is circumstances relevant to the scope of the advice' is s...

7 months ago

Commonwealth Bank has formally dropped to zero advisers following LGT Crestone’s acquisition of its advice arm – some six years on from the Hayne royal commission. ...

3 weeks 5 days ago

The FSCP has issued a written direction to an adviser who charged clients “extraordinary fees” for inappropriate and conflicted advice, as well as encouraged them to swit...

1 week 1 day ago

ASIC has cancelled the AFSL of an advice firm associated with Shield and First Guardian collapses, and permanently banned its responsible manager. ...

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