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When Josh called for submissions and not everyone wrote

Has industry already made a judgement about who is going to win the upcoming Federal Election and therefore the relevance of Treasurer, Josh Frydenberg’s proposed April F...

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Vamos finds Freedom but can she find a strategy?

Outsider sends a big yuletide shout out to former Association of Superannuation Funds of Australia boss, Pauline Vamos, for taking on what might possibly be one of the bi...

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Nag, nag, nag but the horses have bolted

Outsider spent a reasonable portion of his working life strolling the corridors of the Federal Parliament and thus, he thinks he knows a thing or two about how the system...

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God Rest Ye Weary Planners

God rest ye weary planners, don't sweat on FASEA's delays, remember to keep working, and producing SOAs....

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Lest we forget

Given the proximity of Remembrance Day and how many readers are undoubtedly wearing poppies to recognise the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month in 1918 when the ...

Let them have houses and eat smashed avocado

Outsider has nothing but respect and admiration for those innovative and inventive millennials....

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Robert’s difficulty in discerning his Arthur from his Martha

Outsider wonders whether our shiny new Assistant Treasurer, Stuart Robert knows his Arthurs from his Marthas....

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Trumped up analysis

Outsider has always gained value out of listening to Magellan chief executive and co-founder, Hamish Douglass and he expects that this week’s annual Magellan adviser road...

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They who pay the piper call the tune

Outsider was gratified to read that Financial Services Council chief executive, Sally Loane never thought about quitting after what some in the industry believed was a le...

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It’s okay to be in financial services

Outsider has no problem acknowledging “bank-bashing” as one of the great Aussie past times....

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Getting grouchy about the FASEA club

Outsider likes to hold to the old Groucho Marx maxim that he would not care to be a member of any club which would have him as a member....

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Not quite an iGNOMEous end, just yet.

Outsider laments to report that his old mate and general bon vivant, financial services barrister, Noel Davis, has resigned his role with the Superannuation Complaints Tr...

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Pass the Tesla dutchie on the left-hand side

In all his years as an investor, Outsider is hard-pressed to think of a stock that has caused a greater division through the buy side than Tesla. There seems to be a clea...

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Hats off to AFA’s Kokoda trekkers

Outsider doffs his hats to the chaps and chappettes of the Association of Financial Advisers, led by chief executive, Phil Kewin, who completed the Kokoda Trail trek to r...

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Deputy Kell unholsters his six-shooters

And as the sun slowly fades into the west ... Outsider notes the impending departure of Australian Securities and Investments Commission deputy chairman, Peter Kell....