Outsider has to admit that Magellan co-founder, Hamish Douglass has more than earned his reputation for making the right investment calls. After all, Magellan’s financial...
It is possibly a measure of Outsider’s recent bout of insomnia (perhaps the Ashes is being played in mother England) that he found himself reading the so-called ‘Promonto...
Outsider was among those who were somewhat surprised that the Commonwealth Bank opted to close down the Financial Wisdom license rather than sell it....
Has paying market rates for executives worked for the Australian Securities and Investments Commission?...
Outsider understands that when AMP Limited later this month announces its full-year results to the Australian Securities Exchange it will also be delivering investors som...
Outsider notes that former Financial Services Council (FSC) policy executive and long-time political aspirant, Senator Andrew Bragg, delivered his maiden speech in the Se...
Outsider feels sure that financial advisers were delighted to read that Scott Pape, “Australia’s most trusted independent finance expert”, had produced an updated version...
Outsider wishes Linda Elkins well as she moves from her role as executive general manager at Colonial First State (CFS) to her new gig as National Sector Leader for Asset...
In one of the most-publicised gaffes before the Royal Commission, the former Colonial First State executive, Linda Elkins, agreed with counsel that the Commonwealth Bank ...
As a student of history, Outsider knows that the 1920s and 1930s bred a particular type of national leader – the fascist - and he notes global media coverage suggesting t...
There was Outsider thinking that Royal Commissions and other factors had brought down the curtain on significant offshore conferences in the financial planning industry, ...
Outsider is conscious of Australia’s recent revolving door approach to Prime Ministerships but perhaps not as conscious as an erstwhile colleague and life company corpora...
This verdict highlights something deeply wrong and rotten at the heart of the FSCP. We are witnessing a heavy-handed, op...
Interesting. Would be good to know the details of the StrategyOne deal....
It’s astonishing to see the FAAA now pushing for more advisers by courting "career changers" and international recruits,...