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As Outsider ran his rather jaundiced eye over the Commonwealth Bank’s half-year results last week, he was given to reflect that this would be the last results announcemen...

As most readers of Outsider would know, his view on any form of exercise other than golf is that one should lie down and let the mood pass....

Outsider has always believed you can learn a great deal about a person by what they choose to read. So he believes he has now compartmentalised the Minister for Revenue a...

If Outsider is any judge then the average height of executives within Australian Unity will be lower in 2018 than it was in 2016....

Outsider tips his cap to the Minister for Revenue and Financial Services, Kelly O’Dwyer who has been successfully balancing the demands of motherhood with the running of ...

O little town of Plannerland, how regulated we see thee lie. Enmeshed in laws so very deep, the compliance team, they sigh......

Call Outsider an old cynic and he will not disagree but news that the Federal Court had delivered a judgement upholding the appeals of the defendants in the so-called Pri...

Nonwithstanding Mrs O’s irritation, Outsider always continues his work while on “holiday” and keeps abreast of any and all shenanigans perpetrated by his young colleagues...

Outsider knows how often financial planners get the rough end of the pineapple when blame is being shoved around, and so he has a modicum of sympathy for a certain US fin...

Conferences are fertile ground for Outsider. He lurks and smiles in fiendish delight, with the fervent hope that attendees will let their hair down and provide Outsider w...

Were it not for the fact that fund manager Schroders was named Money Management Fund Manager of the Year in three successive years, Outsider would have been suspicious ab...

At the AFA conference, Outsider learnt a valuable lesson. If you have to do a PowerPoint presentation and you choose to include screenshots of websites, ensure you close ...

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