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For most of Karen Volpato’s 37-year working life, she has relentlessly sought to make the superannuation industry a member-first space, and has devoted her time to champi...

At the AFA conference, Outsider learnt a valuable lesson. If you have to do a PowerPoint presentation and you choose to include screenshots of websites, ensure you close ...

Were it not for the fact that fund manager Schroders was named Money Management Fund Manager of the Year in three successive years, Outsider would have been suspicious ab...

Conferences are fertile ground for Outsider. He lurks and smiles in fiendish delight, with the fervent hope that attendees will let their hair down and provide Outsider w...

Peter Wilmshurst looks at where the next pocket of opportunity for bargain hunters will emerge amid the current rally in global value stocks....

While fixed-income investors may be looking to bonds as a safe harbour, recent events have highlighted some ongoing risks, Alex Vynokur writes....

When FIIG brought its Managed Income Portfolio Service (MIPS) to market early last year it broke new ground and Lonsec’s analysis suggests there are good reasons why some...

Col Fullagar examines the claims section of the Life Insurance Code of Practice and believes while the code is a commendable beginning it has a long way to go....

Mike Taylor writes that seven years after AMP Limited acquired AXA Asia Pacific, IOOF has moved from bit-player to dominant non-institutional wealth organisation....

Mike Taylor writes that the Turnbull Government’s determination to avoid a Royal Commission may have resulted in successive exercises in political expediency and the purs...

Investment bonds can be an effective strategy for those subject to marginal tax rates more than 30%. Read to learn more about pros and cons of investment bonds....

Following the various doings of former CPA Australia boss, Alex Malley meant Outsider became somewhat inured to chief executives utilising their oganisation’s social medi...

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