PROFESSIONAL INDEMNITY INSURANCE

Financial planning

Amid the fall-out from the Royal Commission, Honan Insurance has warned that underwriters are becoming increasingly wary of professional indemnity insurance....

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Financial planning

The Association of Financial Advisers has warned that the new Australian Financial Complaints Authority regime is likely to drive up professional indemnity insurance prem...

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Financial planning

Advisers transitioning away from vertically integrated models should consider a co-operative group instead of self-licensing to avoid inherent risks. ...

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Life/Risk

ASIC has cancelled the Australian financial services license held by Marigold Falconer International Limited....

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Accounting

Accountants who provide SMSF advice without a licence risk not being covered by professional indemnity insurance, as insurers treat accountants and financial advisers dif...

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Editorial

The idea of a last resort compensation scheme is again being canvassed in Canberra but it is something that should not occur in isolation to fixing the PI insurance regim...

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News

The Financial Ombudsman Service (FOS) has again pointed to the inadequacy of professional indemnity insurance, as unpaid compensation from its rulings approaches $15 mill...

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Financial planning

As risk planning remains a hot topic in the financial advice space, Malavika Santhebennur explores the top 10 legal quandaries planners can find themselves in and how to ...

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Accounting

The Fold Legal claims accountants are not adequately prepared when applying for AFS licences....

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Financial planning

Questions are being raised about whether accountants who access limited licensing arrangements will accept conventional licensee remuneration models....

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Financial planning

ASIC deputy chairman, Peter Kell, says the regulator will be taking a clsoe look at professional indemnity insurance in coming months....

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Editorial

With a third of FOS determinations going unpaid the efficacy of Professional Indemnity insurance as a compensation mechanism is under question and, as Mike Taylor reports...

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Financial planning

ASIC acknowledges that vertical integration gives rise to conflicts of interest but acknoweldges that scale has benefits....

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Financial planning

Licensees operating under AAP dealer services model will be offered succession planning, acquisition funding and client book purchasing support as part of a suite of new ...

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Financial planning

ASIC has cancelled the AFSLs of seven licensees who did not have adequate professional indemnity insurance....

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