{"id":80161,"date":"2025-11-12T00:10:05","date_gmt":"2025-11-11T13:10:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/?p=80161"},"modified":"2025-11-11T10:39:09","modified_gmt":"2025-11-10T23:39:09","slug":"mbs-partners-with-orbital-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/2025\/11\/12\/mbs-partners-with-orbital-life\/","title":{"rendered":"MBS Partners with Orbital Life"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mbsinsurance.com.au\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">MBS Insurance<\/a> (MBS) has acquired a minority interest in Sydney-based <a href=\"https:\/\/www.orbitallife.com.au\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Orbital Life<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Under the agreement, Orbital Life will use MBS\u2019s infrastructure, its bespoke Salesforce client-database platform, and business support team, spanning compliance, paraplanning and claims management. It will also join MBS\u2019s AFSL and Advice Licence.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Drew Burden<\/strong>, MBS partner and joint CEO, said: \u201cThere is a huge market to serve but we can\u2019t do it alone, and we\u2019re better together than working in isolation.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He said MBS will grow by \u201cbringing on new advisers, training and mentoring professional year candidates, and establishing joint venture relationships with advice firms\u201d.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Nick Fanto<\/strong>, founder and MD, Orbital Life, said he plans to expand the business over the next two-to-three years by recruiting and developing advisers, and driving operational and cost efficiencies.<\/p>\n<p>Established in 2018 Orbital Life has nine employees, including two risk advisers and a provisional adviser. The group has more than $15m of in-force premiums.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MBS Insurance (MBS) has acquired a minority interest in Sydney-based Orbital Life. Under the agreement, Orbital Life will use MBS\u2019s infrastructure, its bespoke Salesforce client-database platform, and business support team, spanning compliance, paraplanning and claims management. It will also join MBS\u2019s AFSL and Advice Licence. Drew Burden, MBS partner and joint CEO, said: \u201cThere is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":80163,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-80161","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-company-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80161","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\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=80161"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80161\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/80163"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}