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Outsider has been hoping beyond hope that “Persevering Jane”, the Minister for Superannuation, Financial Services and the Digital Economy, Senator Jane Hume, was speaking...

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Financial planners are more often kicked than heaped with bouquets in the Federal Parliament and so when politicians come along prepared to listen to financial planners a...

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It will surprise no one that Outsider is not “on” Facebook. He is definitely on what most would know as “Wrinkly Facebook” aka LinkedIn, but he has never thought that Fac...

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It is not often that Outsider feels a sense of surprise. But the usually unfazed Outsider was left feeling shocked when he attended what must have been one of the first i...

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There have been times when Outsider just wanted to be a fly on the wall – you know the sorts of occasions – Queensland’s Annastasia Palaszczuk seated next to NSW’s Gladys...

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Outsider is old but well remembers playing that game “20 questions” in which you get to ask 20 questions of someone to determine the right answer....

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Outsider regrets to say that his extensive portfolio of investments does not include pharmaceutical giant Pfizer which at the time of writing has announced that with its ...

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As this is the last print edition of Money Management for 2020 but Christmas is still some weeks off, Outsider thought he would start a new tradition – The Rapid Exit Awa...

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Outsider has previously mused over Donald Trump’s messaging cutting through in Australia, with the “Sleepy Joe” moniker catching on with the delegates at the Association ...

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Outsider knows what it’s like to be treated like a mushroom. He is not unfamiliar with being kept in the dark and being fed execrable information....

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At the time of writing, Australian Securities and Investments Commission chair, James Shipton remains stood aside awaiting a Treasury-instigated independent review of the...

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Outsider knows that there are those who believe that some inhabitants of Sydney’s so-called big end of town occasionally indulge in illicit substances reflective of their...

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Outsider must admit to currently having more than a passing interest in the outcome of the US Presidential election but he is clearly not as invested as a number of the o...

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Outsider has noted it before but its probably worth noting again that while the politicians squabble over climate change in the so-called “Canberra bubble” the nation’s f...

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Outsider likes to think of himself as seasoned when it comes to conference reporting. ...

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