Professional Indemnity Insurance


A Street Fight is what you are asking for when you put in a professional indemnity insurance claim. The insurance Company lawyers don’t care if you’ve made a genuine mistake. In fact they’re looking for you to make more mistakes when you are discussing your claim. So have a listen to this, those in white collar professional businesses, because if you go in blind you will be mauled by the lawyers.

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Pat Mannix

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Pat Mannix champions small business people. Owning and running his own financial services firm for over 20 years, Pat is an expert in small business tax, property investors and high net worth families via trust structures and SMSF's.

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Phillip Anthony Partners joins Paris Financial East Melbourne

We are pleased to share that the team at Phillip Anthony Partners have merged with Paris Financial. Our team at Paris Financial can provide you with a large range of quality financial services with over 65 people located across two convenient locations in Blackburn and East Melbourne.

Paris Financial shares the same philosophy as Phillip Anthony Partners of providing a value focused and high quality service for each of our clients. We look forward to assisting with your accounting needs.