{"id":30670,"date":"2015-08-25T20:36:46","date_gmt":"2015-08-25T10:36:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/?p=30670"},"modified":"2015-08-25T20:36:46","modified_gmt":"2015-08-25T10:36:46","slug":"whats-your-question-ara-pd-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/2015\/08\/25\/whats-your-question-ara-pd-day\/","title":{"rendered":"What&#8217;s Your Question? ARA PD Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Australian Risk Advisers <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ara2015.com.au\/\" target=\"_blank\">&#8216;Survive and Thrive&#8217; PD Day<\/a> for risk-focused advisers is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/grp\/post\/3819797-6040016817471107075?trk=groups-post-b-title\" target=\"_blank\">seeking your questions<\/a> for an industry Q&amp;A session.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->Inspired by Melbourne adviser and ARA founder, <strong>Aaron Zelman<\/strong>, the Survive and Thrive PD Day is taking place on Thursday 3 September in Melbourne. One of the sessions during this day-long event devoted to addressing issues impacting advisers within the life insurance sector, offers the opportunity for those attending, as well as those who can&#8217;t get there, to put their questions to a panel of experts representing advisers, licensees, life companies, consumers and the regulators.<\/p>\n<p>The focus of the panel discussion is the new <a href=\"http:\/\/jaf.ministers.treasury.gov.au\/media-release\/032-2015\/\" target=\"_blank\">Life Insurance Framework<\/a> proposals, where the key issues impacting advisers will be debated.<\/p>\n<p>This is an opportunity for any adviser around the country to step-up and ask the panel to consider a critical issue as it impacts you, your clients and your business. The panel includes:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Damien Mu<\/strong> &#8211; CEO, AIA Australia<\/li>\n<li><strong>Niall McConville<\/strong> &#8211; GM Retail Distribution, TAL<\/li>\n<li><strong>Mark Vilo<\/strong> &#8211; Executive Manager, Asteron Life<\/li>\n<li><strong>Phil Anderson<\/strong> &#8211; COO, AFA<\/li>\n<li><strong>Louise Macaulay<\/strong> &#8211; Senior Executive Leader, Financial Advisers, ASIC<\/li>\n<li><strong>Wayne Handley<\/strong> &#8211; Founder, Bombora Advice<\/li>\n<li><strong>David Leermakers<\/strong> &#8211; Consumer Action Law Centre<\/li>\n<li><strong>Sam Perera<\/strong> &#8211; Adviser<\/li>\n<li><strong>Peter Sobels<\/strong> &#8211; Publisher, riskinfo (discussion moderator)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Some of the questions already submitted by advisers include:<\/p>\n<p><em>[Consumer Action Law Centre] calls for a fee for service (no commission) approach to risk insurance advice. Many Australians will not pay $7 to see a GP. In addition to their actual premiums, what do you think &#8216;mum&#8217;s and dad&#8217;s&#8217; will pay for the advice of a risk insurance adviser?<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>How will I be able to operate a business with a responsibility period of 3 years for all hybrid commission that is received?<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>How do I operate within this 3 year responsibility period and have a legal responsibility to act in the clients best interest ?<\/em><\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ll endeavour to put as many questions as we can to the panel, and we&#8217;ll make sure that we cover a broad spectrum of issues.<\/p>\n<p>So, this is your chance to be involved.\u00a0 Either <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/grp\/post\/3819797-6040016817471107075?trk=groups-post-b-title\" target=\"_blank\">click here<\/a> to submit your question(s), or type them in the comments section at the end of this article.<\/p>\n<p>We will stay in touch with you following the ARA PD Day, whether you&#8217;ll be there or not. We&#8217;ll report the responses to your questions from the Q&amp;A, as well as all the other news and issues this dedicated session for risk-focused advisers will deliver.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Australian Risk Advisers &#8216;Survive and Thrive&#8217; PD Day for risk-focused advisers is seeking your questions for an industry Q&amp;A session.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,241,3,270],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30670","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-compliance-regulation","category-conferences-and-events","category-general","category-remuneration"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30670","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=30670"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30670\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30670"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30670"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30670"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}