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An insurance group that has agreed to establish a facility to provide professional indemnity insurance for members of the Association of Financial Advisers (AFA) will tur...

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Trauma insurance grew out of the early 80’s Critical Illness insurance developed in South Africa. Since that time this type of insurance has spread across the globe and i...

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American International Assurance (Australia) (AIA) launched Women’s SmartCover, a female crisis assistance benefit, this month. This introduction of a targeted women’s pr...

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Are you thinking that risk insurance is not the force it once was? Well it may be time to think again as the product that built the industry re-asserts itself. JASON SPIT...

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While the insurance industry is in disarray and premiums are going through the roof, risk insurance is too important to be dismissed. JOHN ASHTON reports on how planners ...

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The Australian Prudential Regulation Authority (APRA) has issued Prudential Standard (PS) 3 aimed at prolonging the life of actuarial standard 6.01 (AS6.01) which require...

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The Federal Government is gearing up to act in the key areas of professional indemnity insurance and the implementation of the Financial Services Reform Act (FSRA) accord...

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The crisis in professional indemnity insurance which has engulfed many professions in recent weeks has hit home for financial planners, with at least two more groups refu...

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The Financial Planning Association (FPA) has threatened to take its case directly to the Government if it fails to broker a solution with the insurance industry over the ...

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Tower Life Australia has launched a new disability income product aimed at providing a more individual insurance solution for clients....

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Not since Desert Storm a decade ago has the insurance industry had to seriously consider warlike activities, let alone a disaster of the nature that occurred in the alleg...

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Advisers scramble to restore indemnity insurance...

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So we are now underwriting criminal scams?...

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Glad to see the back of you Steve. You made financial more expensive, not more affordable as you claim, and presided ...

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Completely agree Peter. The definition of 'significant change is circumstances relevant to the scope of the advice' is s...

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ASIC has suspended the Australian Financial Services Licence of a Melbourne-based financial advice firm....

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A former Victorian financial adviser has been sentenced after stealing $4.4 million from clients, family and friends to feed his “raging gambling addiction”....

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A financial advice firm has been penalised $11 million in the Federal Court for providing ‘cookie cutter advice’ to its clients and breaching conflicted remuneration rule...

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