{"id":40192,"date":"2018-03-13T15:45:24","date_gmt":"2018-03-13T04:45:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/?p=40192"},"modified":"2018-03-13T21:40:07","modified_gmt":"2018-03-13T10:40:07","slug":"risk-specialist-enters-into-fourth-advice-joint-venture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/2018\/03\/13\/risk-specialist-enters-into-fourth-advice-joint-venture\/","title":{"rendered":"Risk Specialist Enters Into Fourth Advice Joint Venture"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sydney-based risk specialist practice <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mbsinsurance.com.au\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">MBS Insurance<\/a> has signed its fourth joint venture arrangement in 18 months and will offer life insurance advice to clients of a mid-sized accounting, taxation and audit firm.<!--more--><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_30392\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-30392\" style=\"width: 150px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/files\/2015\/07\/Kris-Mason.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-30392\" src=\"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/files\/2015\/07\/Kris-Mason.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"180\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-30392\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">MBS Insurance Partner, Kris Mason<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Following the pattern of similar ventures, life insurance advice will be offered through the newly formed Ecovis Clark Jacobs Insurance which will operate under the banner of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.clarkjacobs.com.au\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ecovis Clark Jacobs<\/a> and will be jointly owned by the two firms.<\/p>\n<p>The new arrangement will allow Ecovis Clark Jacobs to offer life insurance and business continuity insurance at an individual and group risk level for corporate clients looking to protect staff.<\/p>\n<h6>&#8220;&#8230;an insurance advice capability is needed to provide robust holistic advice to our clients&#8230;&#8221;<\/h6>\n<p>Ecovis Clark Jacobs Director, <strong>Heath Stewart<\/strong> said the firm \u201c&#8230; strongly believes that an insurance advice capability is needed to provide robust holistic advice to our clients\u201d and joined with MBS Insurance &#8220;&#8230;to ensure a quality end-to-end risk insurance service&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>MBS Insurance Partner,\u00a0<strong>Kris Mason<\/strong> said this latest joint venture brought together the best of both firms and &#8220;&#8230;was an acknowledgement of our standing and reputation in the financial advisory sector&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>The arrangement with the Ecovis Clark Jacobs is the third deal MBS Insurance has signed with an accounting firm after entering into a joint venture with <a href=\"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/2018\/01\/29\/risk-specialists-forms-new-venture-with-accounting-group\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">HLB Mann Judd<\/a> in January 2018 and with\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/2016\/09\/12\/risk-specialist-joins-with-accounting-group\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Pitcher Partners Sydney<\/a> in September 2016.<\/p>\n<p>MBS Insurance also has a joint venture arrangement with general insurance broking firm\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.honan.com.au\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Honan Insurance Group<\/a>, signed in December 2017.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sydney-based risk specialist practice MBS Insurance has signed its fourth joint venture arrangement in 18 months and will offer life insurance advice to clients of a mid-sized accounting, taxation and audit firm.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40192","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-company-news","category-services"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40192","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=40192"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40192\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40192"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40192"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40192"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}