{"id":32991,"date":"2016-04-12T12:03:53","date_gmt":"2016-04-12T01:03:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/?p=32991"},"modified":"2016-04-13T06:36:49","modified_gmt":"2016-04-12T19:36:49","slug":"most-trusted-advice-winners-named","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/2016\/04\/12\/most-trusted-advice-winners-named\/","title":{"rendered":"Most Trusted Advice Winners Named"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Beddoes Institute has announced the winners of its inaugural Most Trusted Adviser Network (MTA) Awards with practices within the Securitor Financial Group, Hillross and Millenium 3 financial advice groups taking the top awards.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Securitor practice, Wealth Fusion in South Australian was named as the Most Trusted Practice National Winner while Hillross practice, Hillross Fairy Meadow in NSW was named as the Most Recommended Practice National Winner.<\/p>\n<p>A further Securitor practice, SAM Group in NSW was named both Client Service National Winner and Fees and Value National Winner while Millenium 3 practice Mr Insurance was named New Client Engagement National Winner.<\/p>\n<p>The Most Trusted Adviser Award went to <strong>Greg Lourens<\/strong> of the SAM Group while <strong>David Reed<\/strong> from The Retirement Advice Centre, a Millenium 3 practice, was named as Most Recommended Adviser. Lourens was also named as the winner of the Communication and Interpersonal Relationships Award and Technical Expertise Award.<\/p>\n<p>Beddoes Institute, Director, <strong>Dr Rebecca Shiels<\/strong> said the <a href=\"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/files\/2016\/04\/Table-of-MTA-Awards-winners-and-finalists_20160412.pdf\" rel=\"\">awards winners and finalists<\/a> were selected based on how they were rated by their clients in Beddoes Institute\u2019s Client Experience Survey during 2015 and each of the award winners had consistent strengths across key attributes including client trust, advocacy and willingness to recommend to family and friends.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe MTA awards are based on 3,750 advice client ratings across 137 of Australia\u2019s top MTA advisers and 64 MTA practices,\u201d Sheils said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAdding further to the robustness of the award process, advisers and practices needed at least 20 client ratings and a response rate of more than 30% to be eligible for an award,\u201d Sheils stated, with award recipients typically having a client survey response rate of 47%.<\/p>\n<p>Collectively the four national and ten state adviser awards were won by nine financial advisers while the five national and ten state practice awards were won by eight financial advice practices with Securitor practices and advisers winning six of the nine national awards, with the Millennium3 and Hillross Financial Services networks taking out the remaining three national awards.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Beddoes Institute has announced the winners of its inaugural Most Trusted Adviser Network (MTA) Awards with practices within the Securitor Financial Group, Hillross and Millenium 3 financial advice groups taking the top awards.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32991","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-dealer-groups","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32991","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=32991"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32991\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32991"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32991"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32991"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}