PROFESSIONAL INDEMNITY INSURANCE

Life/Risk

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...

Financial planning

The Financial Planning Authority (FPA) in conjunction with industry players, has formed both a task force and a small working group to try and resolve the rising premiums...

Financial planning

Following the restructuring of its business six months earlier, Deakin Financial Services Group is now spreading its wings and going national as a company focussed on a s...

Life/Risk

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 ...

Financial planning

Financial planners and investment professionals are advised to examine their professional indemnity insurance policies under new light shed by the Financial Services Refo...

Financial planning

When we last left our favourite lemming, newly annointed dealer principal Nick Bruining, being atacked by a group of brochure delivery men (BDMs). In this exciting instal...

Financial planning

At least 300 insurance brokers are trading illegally, according to the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC)....

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