{"id":1577,"date":"2009-06-16T19:29:54","date_gmt":"2009-06-16T09:29:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/?p=1577"},"modified":"2009-06-17T12:17:42","modified_gmt":"2009-06-17T02:17:42","slug":"aviva-sme-professionals-program","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/2009\/06\/16\/aviva-sme-professionals-program\/","title":{"rendered":"Aviva SME Professionals Program"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Aviva is set to commence its second series of education\u00a0programs designed to assist\u00a0advisers deliver &#8216;&#8230;superior risk advice and solutions&#8217; for\u00a0the small to medium enterprise (SME) market.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->The company&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/files\/2009\/06\/090616-sme-professionals-program.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">SME Professionals Program<\/a> is being offered to experienced advisers who:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Work within the SME market, or<\/li>\n<li>Are looking to expand into the SME\u00a0market, or<\/li>\n<li>Have access to centres of influence such as accountants, brokers and other professionals consulting to the SME segment<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h6>&#8220;&#8230;the focus of the program is on process, rather than product&#8230;&#8221;<\/h6>\n<p>According to Aviva&#8217;s National Distribution Development Manager &#8211; Protection, <strong>Russell Hannah<\/strong>, the focus of the program is on <em>process<\/em>, rather than <em>product<\/em>, and was developed in response to a Business Health survey released earlier this year which revealed that many SME clients were in need of an end to end advice process that addressed all aspects of business contingency planning.<\/p>\n<p>Aviva has worked with a number of external technical experts in building this program across the\u00a0key areas of:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Legal<\/li>\n<li>Accounting<\/li>\n<li>SME\u00a0consulting\/advice<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>At the completion of the two-day program, Aviva will be looking to have provided the adviser with a framework that will enable them to &#8216;project manage&#8217; the end to end process of\u00a0 advice solutions for their SME clients, with key value adds including:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Centre of Influence development and support<\/li>\n<li>Access to leading SME industry specialists<\/li>\n<li>&#8216;Cutting edge&#8217; adviser support tools<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Participating in this program offers\u00a0access\u00a0to what Aviva refers to as a &#8216;groundbreaking&#8217; reinsurance arrangement it has developed with reinsurer RGA, which includes a jointly developed risk fact find solution that enables access to\u00a0&#8216;&#8230; some of the highest levels of cover in the market without the need to provide supporting financial evidence.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The SME Professionals Program was successfully piloted by Aviva earlier this year, with the full roll out of the subsidised programs to take place across the country in August and September.<\/p>\n<p>More details can be accessed by clicking\u00a0the following link: <a href=\"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/files\/2009\/06\/090616-sme-professionals-program.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Aviva SME Professionals Program<\/a>, or contacting advisers&#8217; local Aviva BDM.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Aviva is set to commence its second series of education\u00a0programs designed to assist\u00a0advisers deliver &#8216;&#8230;superior risk advice and solutions&#8217; for\u00a0the small to medium enterprise (SME) market.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48,248],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1577","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-company-news","category-training"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1577","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1577"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1577\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1577"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1577"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1577"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}