{"id":30932,"date":"2015-09-10T13:37:41","date_gmt":"2015-09-10T03:37:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/?p=30932"},"modified":"2015-09-15T13:47:28","modified_gmt":"2015-09-15T03:47:28","slug":"aia-on-front-foot-in-addressing-lif-changes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/2015\/09\/10\/aia-on-front-foot-in-addressing-lif-changes\/","title":{"rendered":"AIA on Front Foot in Addressing LIF Changes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>AIA Australia has announced it will be hosting a <a href=\"http:\/\/takingaction.aia.com.au\/\" target=\"_blank\">national series of forums<\/a> to outline its plans to assist advisers transition into the proposed new Life Insurance Framework environment.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_30934\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-30934\" style=\"width: 150px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/files\/2015\/09\/Pina-Sciarrone.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-30934\" alt=\"AIA Australia's Chief Retail Insurance Officer, Pina Sciarrone\" src=\"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/files\/2015\/09\/Pina-Sciarrone.jpg\" width=\"150\" height=\"180\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-30934\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">AIA Australia&#8217;s Chief Retail Insurance Officer, Pina Sciarrone<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Set to cover all capital cities across September and October, the forums are designed to help advisers understand the potential impacts of the reforms on their businesses in the short to medium term. The insurer says the forums will provide an opportunity for advisers to share their ideas and give feedback on future product design, and ways AIA Australia can improve overall service delivery.<\/p>\n<h6>We understand &#8230;advisers are currently facing a difficult change to the way they do business<\/h6>\n<p>AIA Australia&#8217;s Chief Retail Insurance Officer, <strong>Pina Sciarrone<\/strong>, noted how important it was for advisers and insurers to work together in response to the industry-wide reforms: \u201cWe understand that with the latest reforms, advisers are currently facing a difficult change to the way they do business. That\u2019s why we are fully committed to helping advisers transition in the best possible way to ensure both the sustainability of their businesses, and the ability of consumers to access quality advice and affordable life cover into the future.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Ms Sciarrone highlighted four key areas in which she says AIA Australia will work with advisers to develop new initiatives:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Product development<\/li>\n<li>Service delivery<\/li>\n<li>Client development management support<\/li>\n<li>Business growth<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>The insurer cites two recent examples of service initiatives it says reflect its attitude towards developing better solutions for advisers and clients, namely its Tele-Application and Client Complete services. It says these services are designed to increase the amount of information that can be submitted online, thereby reducing the administrative process for clients and advisers.<\/p>\n<p>AIA is encouraging advisers to register for this roadshow series by visiting its dedicated website at <a href=\"http:\/\/takingaction.aia.com.au\/\" target=\"_blank\">takingaction.aia.com.au<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AIA Australia has announced it will be hosting a national series of forums to outline its plans to assist advisers transition into the proposed new Life Insurance Framework environment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48,241],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30932","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-company-news","category-conferences-and-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30932","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=30932"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30932\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30932"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30932"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30932"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}