PROFESSIONAL INDEMNITY
Life/Risk
The former chairman of the Australian Securities and Investments Commission, Alan Cameron has been appointed to head up a Federal Government review of the Insurance Contr...
Financial planning
The Association of Independently Owned Financial Planners (AIOFP) is distancing itself from the broader financial planning industry in terms of underwriting risk as it em...
Financial planning
Advisers using a fee-for-service model of financial planning remuneration could face increased professional indemnity (PI) insurance burdens, according to prominent plann...
Financial planning
A national scheme of professional standards legislation will lower the cost of professional indemnity (PI) insurance and remove restrictions on the services offered by fi...
Financial planning
Count Financial Ltd posted a record 25 per cent increase in after tax net profits today and is set to launch a number of new products and service offerings in the coming ...
Financial planning
AMP and PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) today launched Magnify Financial Planners, a new dealer group catering to the specific needs of chartered accountants considering exp...
Financial planning
The Financial Planning Association (FPA) has criticised the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission’s (ACCC) Public Liability and Professional Indemnity Insurance ...
Financial planning
Paul Resnik goes in search of some of the answers to the problems currently facing the financial planning profession....
Accounting
AMP and PricewaterhouseCoopers have combined to launch a new dealer group catering to the specific needs of chartered accountants considering expanding their service offe...
Financial planning
The Financial Planning Association (FPA) has made two separate moves to assist advisers struggling under the burden of the professional indemnity (PI) crisis by temporari...
Financial planning
The insurance industry’s high professional indemnity (PI) premium levels are here to stay, with an estimate of at least 12 months before insurance companies are able to l...
Financial planning
The Financial Planning Association (FPA) will find it impossible to solve its professional indemnity (PI) insurance woes, according to a leading insurance broking house a...
Financial planning
Count Financial Services managing director Barry Lambert has strenuously denied claims the group operated without professional indemnity (PI) insurance cover after a numb...
Financial planning
Negotiations between the Financial Planning Association (FPA) and Zurich London over setting up the association’s own in-house professional indemnity (PI) insurance schem...
Funds management
With over two decades in the game, dealer manager Michael Summers has always kept his practices ahead of their time. John Wilkinson reports....
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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...