Outsider

Outsider

Making sacrifices beyond the boardroom Tim Tams

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

Outsider

Has Pacman been closed down?

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...

Outsider

Crimes, fees and the relevance of basis points

Outsider was reading a statement from the president of the Law Council, Arthur Moses SC, when he suddenly started thinking about financial advisers and asset-based fees....

Outsider

Rich’s generous walk down memory lane

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

Will Cooper find a new panorama?

Outsider wonders where his old mate Brad Cooper will turn up when he finally exits Westpac after well over a decade with the big banking group....

Outsider

Uncomfortable stablemates

As the May Federal Election looms ever closer, Outsider notes that the polls are suggesting that it remains pretty much a two-horse race, with one particular horse carryi...

Outsider

The Westpac/Viridian transaction – poultice or peppercorn?

The scuttlebutt had been in the industry for weeks, but Outsider still noted the element of surprise when Westpac announced that it was largely getting out of personal ad...

Outsider

No lift-off delivered by Spaceship

Outsider usually steers clear of people handing out brochures on the street and, to be fair, those handing out the brochures usually steer clear of Outsider because his p...

Outsider

Horses for courses, bankers for banks

Outsider can think of few personalities more different than Ken Henry and Phil Chronican and so he expects significant cultural change at National Australia Bank now that...

Outsider

Kell, Zinn and the familiar faces at Adviser Ratings

Outsider was pleased to see his old mate and former Australian Securities and Investment Commission deputy chairman, Peter Kell, bob up as part of an external ratings com...

Outsider

Ken’s list - a club no one wants to join

Outsider has a list of people’s names on his desk which he believes may be similar to a list provided to the Australian Securities and Investments Commission by the Royal...

Outsider

Is FASEA the opportunity that knocked?

Every cloud has a silver lining, it seems. Even when that cloud takes the shape of the Financial Adviser Standards and Ethics Authority regime....

Outsider

High cost of putting writing on the wall for ASIC

Outsider is prepared to bet that when the team at ASIC were ticking off their 2018 unfinished business list just before Christmas, they thought it possible that no-one wo...

Outsider

Yes, the minister is right until he isn’t

As any senior public servant will tell you, the minister is always right until he is no longer the minister....

Outsider

What’s that odour?

What’s in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet....