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And here was Outsider thinking that Royal Commissions and an end to grandfathered commissions had spelled an end to financial advisers’ salad days. Well perhaps for some,...

Outsider notes that former Dover Financial principal, Terry McMaster has joined battle with the Australian Securities and Investments Commission in the Federal Court over...

Not lost on Outsider last week was the fact that his old mate Barry Lambert has an acute sense of timing....

Outsider, in a previous life, spent far too much of his time sitting in Parliamentary Committee rooms and watching as Senators and Members of Parliament appeared to relis...

Outsider noted the level of adviser angst at the news that the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) had selected the biggest industry fund, AustralianS...

Outsider offers his heartiest congratulations to Premium China Fund Management’s Jonathan Wu on his recent marriage to Wendy....

Outsider happens to know that the Australian Securities and Investments Commission has a very serious social media strategy, but he really does wonder whether any of the ...

Context is everything and thus Outsider acknowledges that the ABC’s recent election-time coverage of the franking credits debate may have served Bill Shorten and the Labo...

As we draw ever closer to the 18 May Federal Election, Outsider believes it is worth reminding readers that while we may have had no fewer than five Prime Ministers over ...

As any long-term reader of Outsider would know, he occasionally (actually quite frequently) suffers from remuneration envy....

Outsider thought he might be being “April fooled” when, on 1 April, he noted the colourful Graham Rich celebrating Morningstar’s 20th birthday in Australia....

Outsider wishes his old mate, former IOOF managing director, Chris Kelaher, a comfortable retirement/change of outlook following the company’s announcement that both he a...

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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. ...

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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 2 days 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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