If the Government wants the industry to pay for a compensation scheme of last resort then it needs to review and remove many other regulatory costs, starting with profess...
Mike Taylor writes that in the wake of Ares pulling back from its bid for the entirety of AMP Limited, the board and shareholders are being made patently aware that separ...
Oksana Patron checks how COVID-19 has changed Australians’ thinking about superannuation and their own retirement and what lies ahead for product and solutions providers....
Mike Taylor writes that while significant consolidation has occurred within the Australian life insurance industry, profitability remains a key challenge....
From the implementation of the FASEA regime through to the recommendations of the Royal Commission, Mike Taylor writes, a lot had changed before the Australian Securities...
Margo Lydon explains why it is time to change the narrative of ‘more jobs’ to one focused on giving people ‘better jobs’....
As more retail investors enter the market, Lawrence Lam writes, it is as important for people to know when to sell a stock as when to buy it. ...
Douglas Ayton identifies the bright spots of the emerging markets universe as the region recovers from the COVID-19 pandemic....
Outsider has been hoping beyond hope that “Persevering Jane”, the Minister for Superannuation, Financial Services and the Digital Economy, Senator Jane Hume, was speaking...
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...
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...
If the Government seriously wants to make financial advice more affordable then it needs to conduct a thorough review to strip out the layers of regulation which have dri...
The succession dilemma is more than just a matter of commitments.This isn’t simply about younger vs. older advisers. It’...
Significant ethical issues there. If a relationship is in the process of breaking down then both parties are likely to b...
It's not licensees not putting them on, it's small businesses (that are licensed) that cannot afford to put them on. The...