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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....

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...

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...

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 ...

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...

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...

In all his years as an investor, Outsider is hard-pressed to think of a stock that has caused a greater division through the buy side than Tesla. There seems to be a clea...

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...

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So shareholders lose a dividend plus have seen the erosion of value. Qantas decides to clawback remuneration from Alan ...

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Denise Baker

This is why I left my last position. There was no interest in giving the client quality time, it was all about bumping ...

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gonski

So the Hayne Royal Commission has left us with this. What a sad day for the financial planning industry. Clearly most ...

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A Sydney-based financial adviser has been banned from providing financial services in the interest of consumer protection after failing to act on conduct concerns. ...

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ASIC has cancelled the AFSL of a $250 million Sydney fund manager, one of two AFSL cancellations announced by the corporate regulator....

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Having divested its advice business in August, AMP is undergoing restructuring in at least four other departments amid a cost simplification program....

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