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 ...
As any long-term reader of Outsider would know, he occasionally (actually quite frequently) suffers from remuneration envy....
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...
Timing is everything. In Outsider’s experience today’s rooster can be tomorrow’s feather duster....
Great, indeed, is the man who writes his own history....
Is it a sign of the political times that, so far as Outsider can tell, no one of significant note in the financial services industry received a gong in this year’s Queen’...
So shareholders lose a dividend plus have seen the erosion of value. Qantas decides to clawback remuneration from Alan ...
This is why I left my last position. There was no interest in giving the client quality time, it was all about bumping ...
So the Hayne Royal Commission has left us with this. What a sad day for the financial planning industry. Clearly most ...