{"id":36476,"date":"2017-03-28T16:55:38","date_gmt":"2017-03-28T05:55:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/?p=36476"},"modified":"2017-03-29T01:03:25","modified_gmt":"2017-03-28T14:03:25","slug":"key-fsc-risk-appointment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/2017\/03\/28\/key-fsc-risk-appointment\/","title":{"rendered":"Key FSC Risk Appointment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fsc.org.au\/\" target=\"_blank\">Financial Services Council<\/a> has appointed <strong>Nick Kirwan<\/strong>, a former <a href=\"https:\/\/www.abi.org.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\">Association of British Insurers<\/a> senior exec, to a critical risk-focused role within its organisation.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_36481\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-36481\" style=\"width: 150px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/files\/2017\/03\/Nick-Kirwan-v1.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-36481\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-36481\" src=\"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/files\/2017\/03\/Nick-Kirwan-v1.jpg\" alt=\"Newly appointed risk-focused FSC exec, Nick Kirwan...already has runs on the board representing industry\" width=\"150\" height=\"180\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-36481\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Nick Kirwan&#8230;already has runs on the board representing UK industry<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Kirwan will be working with the FSC and its member life insurance firms to implement the Australian Life Insurance Code of Practice, which becomes mandatory for all member firms from 1 July this year.<\/p>\n<p>Ten years ago, Kirwan was instrumental in his capacity as the public face of the British life insurance sector in delivering a positive insurance advice message to the broader community at a time when the UK life insurance industry was experiencing significant negative publicity.<\/p>\n<p>Kirwan will also be working with the industry to assist in the implementation and ongoing management of the minimum standard definitions that will apply to the &#8216;big three&#8217; critical illness events of heart attack, stroke and cancer.<\/p>\n<p>Prior to joining the FSC, Kirwan, who emigrated to Australia two years ago, has worked in product-related capacities with MLC Life Insurance and MetLife.<\/p>\n<p>His appointment coincides with the FSC&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/fsc.org.au\/events\/life-insurance-conference-2017\/home.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">2017 Life Insurance Conference<\/a> taking place in Sydney later this week, preceded by the FSC&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/fsc.org.au\/events\/life-insurance-conference-2017\/awards-dinner.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">Life Insurance Industry Awards<\/a> gala dinner event.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Financial Services Council has appointed Nick Kirwan, a former Association of British Insurers senior exec, to a critical risk-focused role within its organisation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36476","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-company-news","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36476","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=36476"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36476\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36476"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36476"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36476"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}