OUTSIDER

These are challenging times for consultants. Outsider’s heart almost literally bleeds for the chaps at places like Deloitte, KPMG and elsewhere who he is given to underst...

Outsider is giving 10 out of 10 to the Australian Prudential Regulation Authority (APRA) for deftly avoiding becoming entangled in the somewhat arcane politics of superan...

A few weeks ago Outsider noted the Financial Services Council’s decision to have NSW Liberal Senate tyro, Andrew Bragg, discuss/debate his book “Bad Egg” with actuarial v...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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

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...

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”....

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 ...

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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