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Outsider notes that after looking closely at Chant West data, perhaps ISA’s David Whiteley’s call for an inquiry into why industry funds outperformed their retail counter...

Outsider skimmed through Money Management’s Salary Survey to find some interesting results about education levels between planners in banks and their peers in the super s...

Outsider noted ISA’s David Whiteley’s farewell to National Seniors chief executive, Michael O’Neill with some interest as they were comrades during the FOFA campaign....

Outsider is old enough to remember the last time there was a correction in the residential property market and views the spike in Sydney real estate with a jaundiced eye....

Outsider wonders whether generational change is taking place within the industry funds sector after attending the recent Conference of Major Superannuation Funds (CMSF) i...

Everyone should be allowed a victory lap, even the chairman of the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC), Greg Medcraft. ...

Outsider once lived and worked in Canberra and so he knows the sort of denizens who inhabit the national capital and roam the corridors of the bureaucracy and Parliament....

One way or another, the financial planning industry has provided rich pickings for plaintiff law firms over the past decade and so Outsider was not at all surprised to he...

Outsider has never particularly coveted power and so he happily attends lunches and industry events and taps out his stories oblivious to the corporate political machinat...

Every once in a while, about as often as a solar eclipse, Outsider’s employer allows him to travel up the front of an aeroplane, usually meaning a seat in business class...

Outsider is aware that banks and transparency are buzzwords right now but was surprised to read that even the Vatican was getting in on the act and was about to open the ...

Few people in the financial services industry do as much charity fund-raising as Fiducian’s Indy Singh and Outsider can vouch for the fact that, if you attend the Fiducia...

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