A client’s divorce can be a financial planning opportunity, as long as you can avoid the minefields. Liam Egan reports...
This marks the seventh year Money Management has produced the Top 100 Dealer Groups Survey and it remains the most extensive report of its type in the industry. The surve...
Can financial advisers give specific taxation advice? Are they authorised to discuss tax matters with clients at all? Even armed with a new tax ruling that appears to fav...
Professional indemnity insurance premiums for financial planners decreased by around 12.5 per cent in 2004 and are set to remain reasonably stable despite the impending i...
Financial Planners today are happier with the level of service provided by their dealership. More specifically, they are happier with the amount of professional indemnity...
Professional indemnity (PI) costs for some financial planners could plummet by as much as 25 per cent after the QBE insurance group announced significant cuts to its rate...
Inadequate professional indemnity (PI) insurance is proving a major compliance hurdle for financial planning dealer groups, the Australian Securities and Investments Comm...
An industry scheme to provide planners with professional indemnity cover is close to being set up, but could be scuttled at the eleventh hour because of a reluctance by d...
Promina-owned dealer groups Cameron Walshe and Guardian Financial Planning are bracing themselves for possible adviser departures after the introduction of a new terms of...
Count Financial has cancelled its share buyback scheme and will move to self insure for its professional indemnity (PI) liabilities after claiming the costs of insurance ...
Queensland financial planning firms Gunther Doyle Griffin, Swan Financial Group and Brisbane-based Associated Planners have merged to create a new group, 4people....
Count Financial has been forced to make a provision of $400,000 for the half-year to December 31 2003 due to a risk of claims against it for the alleged poor advice given...
It is not every financial planner who can count a meeting with the Prime Minister as a career highlight....
The Financial Planning Association (FPA) has moved a step closer to setting up its own in-house professional indemnity (PI) insurance solution for members, calling on a r...
This verdict highlights something deeply wrong and rotten at the heart of the FSCP. We are witnessing a heavy-handed, op...
Interesting. Would be good to know the details of the StrategyOne deal....
It’s astonishing to see the FAAA now pushing for more advisers by courting "career changers" and international recruits,...