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Blends are OK, but why aren’t diversity panels diverse?

Outsider is pleased that, even though it took too long, the issue of diversity has become an important matter for many financial services firms, on the surface at least....

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Will offshoring result in yesterday’s answer tomorrow?

As someone who has had to deal with offshore service providers, Outsider is very interested in the suggestion that paraplanning services can be satisfactorily provided by...

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Is the Govt turning superannuation into Afterpay?

Make no mistake, Outsider is a big fan of superannuation possibly because he was reporting on it when the Hawke/Keating Government cemented the Prices and Incomes Accord ...

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No paparazzi – Outsider ain’t feeling pretty

Outsider has sought to stay away from the Melissa Caddick financial planning fraud scandal because, frankly, he thinks coverage has reflected badly in general terms on fi...

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Which Wu is who in the funds management zoo?

Will the real Simon Wu please stand up? There is only one Outsider but apparently there are two Simon Wus operating in the Australian funds management industry....

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Back to the future with Tyndall

Outsider has been around long enough to know that if you wait long enough some of the fashions you were wearing 20 years ago come back into fashion. Well, almost. And so ...

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Heroes come and heroes go but advisers soldier on

Financial planners are more often kicked than heaped with bouquets in the Federal Parliament and so when politicians come along prepared to listen to financial planners a...

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Dear Jane, it’s a different tune but the same hymn sheet

Outsider has been hoping beyond hope that “Persevering Jane”, the Minister for Superannuation, Financial Services and the Digital Economy, Senator Jane Hume, was speaking...

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Manfully facing up to the impending absence of Facebook

It will surprise no one that Outsider is not “on” Facebook. He is definitely on what most would know as “Wrinkly Facebook” aka LinkedIn, but he has never thought that Fac...

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Persevering through a political thought-bubble

It is not often that Outsider feels a sense of surprise. But the usually unfazed Outsider was left feeling shocked when he attended what must have been one of the first i...

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A fly on the wall when someone puts a fly in the ointment

There have been times when Outsider just wanted to be a fly on the wall – you know the sorts of occasions – Queensland’s Annastasia Palaszczuk seated next to NSW’s Gladys...

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A fun game – playing 20 Questions with Bert and ASIC

Outsider is old but well remembers playing that game “20 questions” in which you get to ask 20 questions of someone to determine the right answer....