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Outsider reckons the guys over at Westpac can relax a little over the record penalty they paid as a result of the bank’s AUSTRAC infringements because JP Morgan Chase and...

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Outsider has been heartened to hear the news that NSW Premier, Gladys Berejiklian wants people back in their offices in the Sydney central business district as soon as po...

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Outsider knows one or two financial services high-flyers who are normally more than ready to flaunt their triple platinum frequent flyer status but are currently having t...

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When Outsider watched Hostplus boss, David Elia, exchanging banter with parliamentarians as he Skyped into a hearing of the House of Representatives Standing Committee on...

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Amid the reality of a recession, Outsider continues to be surprised by which segments of the economy are doing well and which are not....

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Outsider is all for keeping citizens inside when it comes to curbing a virus from spreading and was wary when he heard that US J.P. Morgan chief executive, Jamie Dimon, h...

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Outsider confesses that a number of years ago he, or someone purporting to be him, described Equity Trustees’ somewhat peripatetic Harvey Kalman as “Harvey World Travel”....

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Outsider feels sure that financial advisers will be heartened by the news that the Australian Securities and Investments Commission has 2,237 employees and that over the ...

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Outsider was somewhat amused when a little-known Queensland Liberal National Party backbencher decided to take on two former first-graders – former Labor Prime Ministers ...

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Outsider chuckled when he came across a story about a Japanese television drama about a salaryman who was ascending the ranks of an institution that looked a lot like Jap...

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Is it just Outsider, or does tyro, hipster NSW Liberal Senator, Andrew Bragg, have an fascination for residential real estate?...

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Outsider remembers his first flight from Sydney to Brisbane back in the 1970s flying TAA (Google it) and when the plane landed the pilot welcomed everyone to Queensland w...

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Outsider is grateful to be alive and well and living in the Emerald City rather than in Melbourne but, apparently, his relative freedom of movement means that he is missi...

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Outsider does like a Government backbencher who keeps an eye on the jobs being advertised by the financial services regulators, particularly one as arcane as the Australi...

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For the record, Outsider is amongst those who believe that Parliament should be sitting in Canberra whether in the Parliamentary chambers of both houses or via digital/vi...

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