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Synchron vows to end yearly renewables

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 2 MAR 2017
Synchron director Don Trapnell provided an update on his group's partnership with AIA Australia, announced just over a year ago, saying it will end "the industry's love affair with yearly renewable premium rates." Trapnell argued that Australia is the ...

Life insurance commissions bill passes lower house

ALEX BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 NOV 2016
... will be offset by higher ongoing remuneration, the change is still significant for many advisers." Synchron director Don Trapnell questioned whether the move towards a fee-for-service model that the bill seems to promote is valuable. He explained: "For ...

Synchron appointment looks to the future

KERRIE SYDEE  |  MONDAY, 20 JUN 2016
... the gradual transition, the group is also on the lookout for a general manager, who will slowly take over director Don Trapnell's role over the next five to six years. Both Trapnell and Prossor plan to remain with Synchron as non-executive directors ...

Synchron announces LIF tech and referral arrangements

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 23 FEB 2016
... advisers will be suffering from July 1st on a progressive basis due to a reduction in income," Synchron director Don Trapnell said. "We have made SyncAdvsr available to every Synchron advice business as part of the Synchron suite of services and we expect ...

Synchron debuts new risk advice solution

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 9 FEB 2016
... insurance product it has developed jointly with AIA Australia. Speaking at a media briefing in Sydney, Synchron director Don Trapnell said the idea came about after researching how life insurance products were sold in the UK. He identified there is a ...

Risk reforms ignore key adviser concerns

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 25 JUN 2015
... risk reforms package ignores the problem of vertical integration and client-driven policy churn. Synchron director Don Trapnell told Financial Standard that the reform improved on the initial Trowbridge report, but it failed to address the fact that ...

Separate risk advisers from other planners: Synchron

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 29 JAN 2015
... investment portfolio and therefore risk advisers should be kept separate from other financial planners, Synchron director Don Trapnell argued. "For some reason, risk products continue to be linked together as financial planning products rather than insurance ...

Independent dealer groups eye Genesys practices

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 25 NOV 2014
... suffering a significant financial penalty - a penalty too severe for most of them to survive," Synchron director Don Trapnell said. Trapnell told Financial Standard that the dealership will not be approaching Genesys practices directly, but he expected ...

Synchron pushes for providers' direct payment

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 28 FEB 2014
... work done by advisers, who then pass the payment on to advisers - often in their good own time," Synchron director Don Trapnell said. Trapnell explained that "at the moment, if a licensee is placed into liquidation their advisers have to compete with ...

Trapnell rejects 'no way out' stance by licencees

MARK STORY  |  FRIDAY, 25 JAN 2013
You can check-in any time you like but you can never leave: Synchron director Don Trapnell has used the immortal lines from the classic 1970s Hotel California hit to reaffirm his rejection of licensee heavy-handedness dealing with advisers who want ...