PROFESSIONAL INDEMNITY
Life/Risk
The Insurance Council of Australia (ICA) has urged the Opposition and minor parties in the Senate to support passage of the Trade Practices (Personal Injury and Death) Bi...
Financial planning
The Financial Planning Association’s (FPA) professional indemnity (PI) taskforce has been criticised by one of its own members as stagnating on securing an association-wi...
Financial planning
The Association of Independently Owned Financial Planners (AIOFP) has negotiated a deal with insurance group AIG to offer its members significantly discounted professiona...
Financial planning
Financial planners, stock brokers and insurance agents are being kept in the dark on how compensation arrangements will pan out under Financial Services Reform due to the...
Financial planning
Financial planning group Tynan Mackenzie has embarked on an acquisition trail, primarily targeting adviser practices intent on exiting the industry due to the increased c...
Life/Risk
Risk advisers will face risks of their own. Col Fullagar outlines how to mitigate those risks....
Financial planning
Estate planning is a business opportunity waiting to happen, say Jack Houwing and Mike Fitzpatrick....
Financial planning
Over the past year, the Tower group has redirected its overall strategy and returned its focus to the risk end of the market. Lucie Beaman looks at what this means for th...
Editorial
With increasing litigation and concerns over professional indemnity insurance, Macquarie’s David Shirlow believes his presentation has particular relevance. Julie Bennett...
Financial planning
The ongoing legacy of the HIH Insurance collapse in Australia is the cost and availability of professional indemnity insurance. Mike Taylor reports....
Financial planning
The introduction of Financial Services Reform (FSR) legislation seems to be frightening many advisers – but life advisers appear to be particularly concerned. John Wilkin...
Financial planning
The Financial Planning Association (FPA) is lobbying for changes to the Insurance Contracts Act to reduce the professional indemnity insurance problems currently plaguing...
Life/Risk
Financial planners are facing alarming personal liability risks despite having professional indemnity (PI) cover due to an influx of unauthorised foreign insurers accessi...
Editorial
What can you do to help protect your client’s assets following a marital breakdown? John Mazzotta says the answer may lie in binding financial agreements (BFAs)....
Financial planning
Financial advisers have been called on to do themselves and the industry a favour by driving ‘bad eggs’ out of the industry....
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The succession dilemma is more than just a matter of commitments.This isn’t simply about younger vs. older advisers. It’...
Significant ethical issues there. If a relationship is in the process of breaking down then both parties are likely to b...
It's not licensees not putting them on, it's small businesses (that are licensed) that cannot afford to put them on. The...