{"id":5747,"date":"2010-04-19T10:46:27","date_gmt":"2010-04-18T23:46:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/?p=5747"},"modified":"2020-02-06T08:09:39","modified_gmt":"2020-02-05T21:09:39","slug":"key-adviser-service-appointments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/2010\/04\/19\/key-adviser-service-appointments\/","title":{"rendered":"Key Adviser Service Appointments"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Matrix and ING Australia have announced appointments to service their respective adviser networks:<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><strong>Matrix Planning Solutions<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Matrix has announced <strong>Helen Shao<\/strong> will join the dealer as a Practice Development Manager.<\/p>\n<p>Ms Shao has\u00a0more than twenty years&#8217; experience in the banking and finance industry,\u00a0including time spent\u00a0operating her own financial planning practice.\u00a0 Recent roles have included Senior Account Manager with Fiducian Financial Services and Practice Development Manager with AXA.<\/p>\n<p>According to Matrix Director, Adviser Services and Development, <strong>Allison Dummett<\/strong>, Ms Shao&#8217;s appointment reflects the dealer&#8217;s commitment to a high level of service to its 41 practices (and planned growth to 50): &#8220;While other models have a much lower ratio of PDMs to advisers &#8211; ours will be 1:20 or eventually 1: 25 practices,&#8221; said Ms Dummett, adding that the firm&#8217;s major focus at present is strategic advice and developing improved fee for service models.<\/p>\n<p><strong>ING<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Vilma Attanasio<\/strong> has been appointed the insurer&#8217;s SA\/NT Distribution Manager for Insurance.<\/p>\n<p>Ms Attanasio has served the South Australian financial services sector for\u00a0twenty\u00a0years, the last\u00a0half with ING.\u00a0 She has previously held senior distribution roles with ING, and has been\u00a0the company&#8217;s &#8216;BDM of the Year&#8217;\u00a0for the last two years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Matrix and ING Australia have announced appointments to service their respective adviser networks:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[249],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5747","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-appointments"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5747","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=5747"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5747\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5747"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5747"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5747"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}