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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 ...

Life commission clawback forced on advisers: Synchron

BEN COLLINS  |  MONDAY, 12 NOV 2012
... that imposes a uniform remuneration model with uniform responsibility periods on advisers," said Synchron Director Don Trapnell. "That is anti-competitive and Synchron will never support that kind of behaviour," he said. Trapnell said that it was competitive ...

Dealer group launches mobile medical service

RACHEL DAVIS  |  FRIDAY, 18 MAY 2012
... investigations for a client, they coordinate this using a pathology service via the underwriter," said Synchron director Don Trapnell. "While this may be an efficient process, it can leave the adviser out in the cold, making it difficult to follow up ...

Advisers graduate Synchron boot camp

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 22 APR 2008
... 50s and they are aging, and to address that, two years ago we started our Next Gen course," said Synchron director Don Trapnell. The three-day course attracted representatives from Synchron and other firms as advisers gathered together for climbing exercises ...
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