The Bulletin


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What if we expected financial services to be more like health services?

  • Written by Paul Kofman, Professor of Finance, University of Melbourne

Earlier this year the chief of a financial planning firm collapsed in the witness stand during Australia’s ongoing royal commission into misconduct in the financial services industry. He had to be taken to hospital in an ambulance – some would say a fitting metaphor for the state of the industry.

Fortunately for him the health care...

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