{"id":45934,"date":"2019-08-13T22:09:00","date_gmt":"2019-08-13T12:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/?p=45934"},"modified":"2019-08-14T06:22:33","modified_gmt":"2019-08-13T20:22:33","slug":"new-risk-specialist-business-joint-venture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/2019\/08\/13\/new-risk-specialist-business-joint-venture\/","title":{"rendered":"New Risk Specialist Business Joint Venture"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NSW risk advice firm, <a href=\"http:\/\/mbsinsurance.com.au\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">MBS Insurance<\/a> and Victorian risk specialists, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.craaustralia.com.au\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Complete Risk Analysis<\/a> have announced they are joining forces.<a href=\"http:\/\/mbsinsurance.com.au\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-45937\" src=\"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/files\/2019\/08\/190813-MBS-CRA-1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"176\" height=\"84\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><!--more-->In a release announcing this initiative, the two risk advice firms state they are confident that the benefits of merged expertise, increased scale and improved efficiencies will be the foundation for new business growth underpinned by a compelling marketplace and client service offering.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.craaustralia.com.au\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-45939\" src=\"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/files\/2019\/08\/190813-MBS-CRA-2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"177\" height=\"41\" srcset=\"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/files\/2019\/08\/190813-MBS-CRA-2.png 403w, https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/files\/2019\/08\/190813-MBS-CRA-2-300x69.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 177px) 100vw, 177px\" \/><\/a>Commenting on the announcement, MBS co-partners <strong>Kris Mason<\/strong> and <strong>Drew Burden<\/strong>, together with long-time industry stakeholder, CRA founding partner <strong>Glenn Kerr<\/strong>, said the new merged entity will make the company one of the industry\u2019s largest risk insurance advisory businesses.<\/p>\n<h6>&#8230;it also reaffirms that there is a future for risk insurance advice and advisory businesses<\/h6>\n<p>The statement announcing the merger of the two businesses \u2013 both of which operate under <strong>Wayne Handley\u2019s<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/bomboraadvice.com.au\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Bombora Advice<\/a> licensee network \u2013 noted that \u201c\u2026in contrast to all the doom and gloom, it also reaffirms that there is a future for risk insurance advice and advisory businesses.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The combined risk advisory business \u2013 a significant player within Australia\u2019s risk advice sector &#8211; will have approximately $55 million in premiums under management, 18 authorised financial advisers and 40 administrative staff members.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NSW risk advice firm, MBS Insurance and Victorian risk specialists, Complete Risk Analysis have announced they are joining forces.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":45958,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,3],"tags":[4247],"class_list":{"0":"post-45934","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-dealer-groups","8":"category-general","9":"tag-feature"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45934","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=45934"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45934\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/45958"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45934"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45934"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45934"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}