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Life Insurance and Advice Working Group chair appointed

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 17 OCT 2014
... Suncorp Life. AFA representatives will include AFA chief executive Brad Fox, Centrepoint Alliance chief executive John de Zwart and AFA NSW State Director Jeff Thurecht. A public report on the group's initial findings will be released in mid-December ...

ASIC puts an end to PIS monitoring program

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 29 JUL 2014
... functions." The Centrepoint-owned dealer group has "made transformational strides," Centrepoint managing director John De Zwart said. De Zwart told Financial Standard that the group recruited lawyers and industry experts to conduct "a coaching and mentoring ...

Centrepoint makes four key appointments

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 FEB 2014
... "building Centrepoint's risk specialist capabilities to match the needs of our advisers," Centrepoint chief executive John De Zwart said. Theodore Hatsis will be joining the dealer group's Strategic Initiatives team as head of Research and will be responsible ...

Centrepoint Alliance CFO resigns

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 21 OCT 2013
... Centrepoint in September. Centrepoint did not reveal the reason of Magee's departure, but its managing director John De Zwart thanked him for the contribution he has made to the company over the last decade. "Ian has been invaluable to the company for ...

Centrepoint optimistic after completing AAP acquisition

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 8 OCT 2013
... of the remaining 45% of the shares in AAP and AAP2 that Centrepoint didn't own yet. Centrepoint chief executive John De Zwart welcomed the news and confirmed that AAP serves over 200 boutique practices. "We have new licensees joining AAP in a weekly ...

AAP hits adviser milestone ahead of buyout

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 27 AUG 2013
... financial information. "We are very excited about the growth that we are seeing at AAP," Centrepoint chief executive John De Zwart told Financial Standard. Centrepoint currently owns 55% of AAP and it estimates that with the acquisition of the dealer ...

Centrepoint locks-in CEO with incentive bonus

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 6 AUG 2013
... approved the issue of up to $1.5 million of fully paid ordinary shares to Centrepoint and PIS managing director John De Zwart as a long term incentive. The issue of shares is subject to the achievement of growth targets in the underlying profit of the ...

PIS appoints PwC as independent expert

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 18 JUL 2013
... advice tools and a series of key appointments, which are all part of our ongoing strategy," PIS chief executive John De Zwart said. The largest independent dealer group in Australia was subject to an enforceable undertaking from December 2010 to March ...

PIS sees dramatic drop in adviser numbers

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 JUL 2013
... Future of Financial Advice (FoFA) regulation has done the reverse of what it intended to do," PIS chief executive John De Zwart told Financial Standard recently. "FoFA was supposed to remove the conflict between the adviser and the product, but it has ...

Platforms surpass pre-GFC levels

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 1 JUL 2013
... increased the ownership of advice and product particularly amongst the Big % institutions," PIS chief executive John de Zwart said. de Zwart confirmed that some advisers are finding the regulatory environment too complex, so they refuse to make the transition ...