Australia: New appointments

Aviva has appointed Barry Edgar and Lisa Stephens to the new position of account development manager.

Barry is responsible for Victoria, South Australia and Western Australia, while Lisa concentrates on New South Wales and Queensland.

Aviva's general manager distribution, Paul Northey, said the appointments highlighted Aviva and Navigators commitment to delivering top quality services for financial advisers.

The new role of account development manager, will focus on enhancing relationships with financial adviser dealer groups and providing business support tools to assist their businesses to grow and develop.

Both Barry and Lisa have extensive experience in the financial services industry.

Barry spent 20 years at ANZ in a number of senior roles focusing on alternative distribution strategies. Before joining Aviva he was business relationship manager for Wizard Home Loans.

And, Lisa has spent the past three years as business development manager for Navigator. Prior to this she held roles as an account manager for Bridge Information Systems and as operations manager in a financial planning company.

According to Barry, this is a new exciting role which is dedicated to business growth for advisers. This includes assisting with lodging an AFSL application, compliance and training issues for advisers and offering a comprehensive practice management service.

These appointments follow the recent announcement of the return of former Navigator Executive, Stephen Trist to the role of national key account manager and Paul Northeys promotion to general manager distribution.

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For further information please contact:
Simon Morgan,
Group General Manager
Public Affairs
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0407 966 632

Notes to editors:

• Aviva Australia is a group of two specialist financial services companies: Navigator and Norwich Union Life Australia Ltd. Portfolio Partners, the Australian funds management arm of Aviva plc, is a sister company. Through these companies we provide products and services in the areas of wealth creation, wealth management and wealth protection for more than 300,000 customers throughout Australia
• Globally, Aviva Australia is part of Aviva plc, the world’s fifth largest insurance group, the largest insurer in the UK and one of the top five life companies in Europe. Aviva was formed in May 2000 through the global merger of CGU plc and Norwich Union plc
• Aviva is a leading provider of life and pensions products to Europe and has substantial businesses elsewhere around the world. Its main activities are long-term savings, fund management and general insurance. It has premium income and investment sales from continuing operations of A$78 billion, and more than A$624 billion of assets under management (as at 1 July 2004). The group has more than 56,000 employees and 30 million customers worldwide
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