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....
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...
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 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 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 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 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 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 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...
Every cloud has a silver lining, it seems. Even when that cloud takes the shape of the Financial Adviser Standards and Ethics Authority regime....
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...
What’s in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet....
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,...