With obtaining and maintaining professional indemnity insurance cover one of the key challenges confronting planners, Money Management and Lawyers Weekly have combined to...

Accountants looking to gain authorised representative status under the new limited licensing regime are being quoted figures of between $4000 and $6000 a year for the pri...

Perth securities dealer Stellar Securities has had its Australian financial services licence cancelled after it failed to comply with its financial requirement conditions...

The Institute of Public Accountants has given its members an alternative to compliance with APES 230. ...

Financial planners are required by regulation to hold Professional Indemnity insurance, but Oscar Martinis writes that notwithstanding the increasing cost of premiums, pl...

Clients with mainly cash holdings not enough to sway ASIC on planner PI requirements....

Australian Financial Services ends its run as licence cancelled under voluntary administration....

Two bodies will soon regulate financial planners - a serious concern to the FPA....

With scores of financial planners changing dealer groups, Mike Taylor writes that it is important for those doing the recruiting to undertake the necessary due diligence ...

Suncorp confirms Vero is applying a ‘selective’ approach to approving directors and officers insurance to planning groups....

Boutique dealer group Premium Wealth Management has launched a new service aimed at helping accountants deal with the new licensing regime replacing the accountants' exem...

Vero confirms its selective approach on planner PI while Cormann queries current regime. ...

While financial planners accept the reasons they are required to hold Professional Indemnity insurance, there are signs the system needs a review....

Some planners are worried that PI requirements risk compromising best interest allocations....