{"id":6491,"date":"2010-06-01T17:55:10","date_gmt":"2010-06-01T07:55:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/?p=6491"},"modified":"2020-02-06T08:10:36","modified_gmt":"2020-02-05T21:10:36","slug":"zurich-appointments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/2010\/06\/01\/zurich-appointments\/","title":{"rendered":"Zurich Appointments"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Zurich has announced a senior marketing appointment and two recent BDM appointments within its Life Risk Team:<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->Former CommInsure product manager, <strong>Richard Dunkerley<\/strong>, has been appointed Zurich&#8217;s Marketing Manager &#8211; Life Risk.\u00a0 Mr Dunkerley has over 15 years&#8217; experience in the life insurance industry, and\u00a0has been\u00a0charged with expanding the distribution of Zurich&#8217;s risk products, \u00a0via independent intermediaries.<\/p>\n<p>Recently appointed to Business Development Manager roles have been <strong>Richard Hopwood<\/strong> and <strong>Ben Bancroft<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Hopwood will be managing adviser relationships for Zurich\u00a0in Queensland, while Mr Bancroft, who has spent time as an adviser at Matrix Planning Solutions and in BDM roles at ING and CommInsure, will be based in New South Wales.<\/p>\n<p>Zurich advises both BDM appointments are additional to existing numbers and reflects the rapid growth of its life risk portfolio, where the insurer points to a\u00a0doubling of\u00a0its death and TPD new business since the launch of its Life<em>Xpress<\/em> online business solution in the first half of 2009.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Zurich has announced a senior marketing appointment and two recent BDM appointments within its Life Risk Team:<\/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-6491","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-appointments"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6491","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=6491"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6491\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6491"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6491"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6491"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}