PROFESSIONAL INDEMNITY INSURANCE

Financial planning

The Count Financial group will push into a range of new businesses, including a burgeoning commercial loan operation, after reporting a 17 per cent jump in its full year ...

Life/Risk

An insurance group that has agreed to establish a facility to provide professional indemnity insurance for members of the Association of Financial Advisers (AFA) will tur...

Financial planning

The Financial Planning Association (FPA) wants to see legislation for a national professional standards act put in place to solve the current professional indemnity (PI) ...

Financial planning

Count Financial has recorded an after-tax profit of $4.72 million for the end of the 2002 financial year, which is an increase of 17 per cent above their profits for the ...

Financial planning

The professional indemnity crisis is hitting the financial services industry hard. GEORGE LIONDIS investigates what planners and dealer groups are up against....

Financial planning

THE ASSOCIATION of Financial Advisers (AFA) has negotiated a deal to find insurance cover for its members through the London-based Lloyds group in order to bypass the wor...

Financial planning

ING will merge its nine distribution outlets into three dealer groups, with RetireInvest the only brand to retain its name and identity after the shakeup....

Financial planning

ON first reading, it seems too good to be true. “In a victory for clients, FPA Health will reopen all its centres and provide services from today as a result of obtaining...

Financial planning

PROFESSIONAL indemnity insurance premiums have risen dramatically in the financial advisory marketplace, resulting in more costly advice and administration fees for consu...

Financial planning

While SRIs have been an attractive option for many investors, the honeymoon may well be over. KATE KACHOR reports on what effect the current insurance crisis and the publ...

Financial planning

The providers of margin lending products could be the next victims from the worsening crisis over professional indemnity insurance for financial planners....

Financial planning

The Financial Planning Association (FPA) is approaching state Government’s throughout Australia with a string of proposals in an attempt to find a legislative solution to...

Financial planning

The popular tax schemes of years gone by could see some advisers facing massive legal claims. GEORGE LIONDIS reports....

Life/Risk

The Federal Government is gearing up to act in the key areas of professional indemnity insurance and the implementation of the Financial Services Reform Act (FSRA) accord...

Financial planning

An association for small dealer groups has just been launched to give boutique dealer groups more clout when it comes to dealing with Government on issues such as complia...

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