PROFESSIONAL INDEMNITY INSURANCE

Financial planning

Perth-based Chambers Investment Partners has had its Australian financial services licence cancelled after the company failed to obtain professional indemnity insurance a...

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Life/Risk

Licensees using PI insurance to stop free movement of advisers to competitors....

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Financial planning

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

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Accounting

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...

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Financial planning

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

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Accounting

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

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Editorial

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

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Financial planning

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

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Financial planning

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

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Financial planning

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

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Editorial

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 ...

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Financial planning

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

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Financial planning

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...

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Financial planning

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

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Editorial

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

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