{"id":5149,"date":"2010-03-01T09:51:04","date_gmt":"2010-02-28T22:51:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/?p=5149"},"modified":"2020-02-06T08:09:10","modified_gmt":"2020-02-05T21:09:10","slug":"tower-adviser-awards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/2010\/03\/01\/tower-adviser-awards\/","title":{"rendered":"TOWER Adviser Awards"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>TOWER Australia has presented awards to top advisers and dealer groups writing business\u00a0via\u00a0the insurer&#8217;s \u00a0Victorian\/Tasmanian\u00a0operations.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->Recognising their work and results across 2009, State Manager for Victoria\/Tasmania, <strong>Pina Sciarrone<\/strong>, said the awards recognised adviser and dealer group quality of service both in their relationship with clients and\u00a0with TOWER Australia.<\/p>\n<p>The key awards were:<\/p>\n<p><strong>Inforce Individual<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Winner: <strong>Gerard Lowe<\/strong>, Lowe Financial Group<\/li>\n<li>Runners up: <strong>Paul Murphy<\/strong> (Phoenix Financial Group), <strong>Michael Holmes<\/strong>(Johansen Financial Services)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Inforce Corporate<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Winner: Lakeside Consultants<\/li>\n<li>Runners up: Certainty Financial and Lifebroker.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Retention Individual<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Winner: <strong>Alex Braun <\/strong>(Halstead Financial Services)<\/li>\n<li>Runner up: <strong>Russell Harrison <\/strong>(Harrisons Financial Services)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Retention Corporate<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Winner: Complete Risk Analysis<\/li>\n<li>Runner up: Kleiman Shermer P\/L<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Rising Star<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Winner: <strong>Ben Sullivan<\/strong> (CCA Financial Planners)<\/li>\n<li>Runner up: <strong>Steven Carfona<\/strong>(WHK Armitage Downie)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>New Business, Corporate<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Winner: Lifebroker<\/li>\n<li>Runners up: iSelect, Priority Life<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>New Business, Individual<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Winner: <strong>Gary Honey<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Runners up: <strong>Paul Murphy<\/strong>, <strong>Terry Brain<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Honorary Award<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Ian Wheeler<\/strong> (Wheeler Life Insurance Advisers)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Ms Sciarrone said Mr Wheeler&#8217;s contribution to the industry over a very long time had been significant with a major contribution being to raising money for the Victorian bushfires in February 2009.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;All awards highlight the fact that life insurance is a great industry delivering significant benefits to consumers and providing financial security and dignity in often difficult times,&#8221; said Ms Sciarrone.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TOWER Australia has presented awards to top advisers and dealer groups writing business\u00a0via\u00a0the insurer&#8217;s \u00a0Victorian\/Tasmanian\u00a0operations.<\/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-5149","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\/5149","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=5149"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5149\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5149"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5149"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}