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Having spent many years living in Canberra before moving to Sydney, Outsider was excited that the Canberra Raiders made the final against the Sydney Roosters and watched ...

No names, no pack drill, but Outsider has heard tell of a recent financial services company off-site (love-in) which ended with two participants being tended to in the em...

Outsider was disturbed to read Money Management's article about how he was a ‘decaying vessel’. Although he understood the point made in William John’s very well-written ...

Let it be said that nobody is happier than Outsider to see the Financial Planning Association and the Association of Financial Advisers working together to generate a uni...

Outsider has been wondering how his old mate and erstwhile IOOF managing director, Chris Kelaher, has been getting on after standing aside in the wake of Australian Prude...

Outsider was excited when he found out Thai cave rescue diver Dr Craig Challen was to speak at Money Management's Future of Wealth Management – Advice conference as he, i...

Regular readers of Outsider will remember that he recently questioned what, precisely, born again One Nation Senator, Malcolm Roberts, would bring to last month’s Financi...

Outsider really wonders whether the “barefoot investor”, Scott Pape, is really barefoot given his book sales and the spotter’s fee he is probably owed by a particular sup...

Outsider has never exactly been quick to embrace new technologies and still hankers after his old Olivetti portable typewriter when it comes time to bash out a newsflash ...

Outsider was disappointed to find that the Royal Commission did not find that a future Z-grade celebrity was working within NAB’s walls, namely Australia’s current bachel...

Outsider has concluded that those organising this year’s Financial Services Council Leaders Summit have taken the view that diversity can trump relevance when it is coupl...

Outsider does enjoy a good intellectual joust but he also knows when he is out of his league....

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

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

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A former Victorian financial adviser has been sentenced after stealing $4.4 million from clients, family and friends to feed his “raging gambling addiction”....

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A financial advice firm has been penalised $11 million in the Federal Court for providing ‘cookie cutter advice’ to its clients and breaching conflicted remuneration rule...

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