Columnist Marcus Padley

When I divorced my first wife it was a remarkably amicable affair, helped I have to say, by the Family Law in the UK and Wales which states that there is only one ground for divorce, as here. "Irretrievable breakdown", proven in the UK by

I did a course in marketing financial products once. We ripped apart the product disclosure statement for a capital guaranteed leveraged equity product. When the definition of financial happiness is the expectation of an improvement in your standard

I was driving home this week and a stockbroker mate caught my attention at the traffic lights from two lanes away. He wound his window down and shouted "Hey Marcus...we're back!" accompanied by a Lleyton Hewitt fist pump. The ASX 200

Strayed onto the Documentary channels of Foxtel the other day and caught a clip of an Australian yogi, one of those guys who went traveling in 1972, found himself in the Biranchi Narayan Temple in Buguda India, adopted Yoga and meditation, lost

I once went out with the richest man in England. Not in the biblical sense of course, and after a few bottles of something expensive he expounded his somewhat brutal assessment of life and business. I took notes. Here is the potted version. Do not