Terry Johnson
Synchron adviser, Terry Johnson from Keyman Financial Services in NSW, has won an inaugural AFA Great Advice Award (the Award).
Don Trapnell, Director of Synchron said, “We congratulate Terry on winning the NSW state Award. Terry is a risk specialist who has been a highly valued member of the Synchron community of advisers since 2018.”
Mr Johnson has been in the industry for more than 20 years and has built a business that puts the claim outcome front and centre.
“We give advice as if our client is going on claim tomorrow,” Mr Johnson said. “We believe that the true worth of a risk specialist adviser is only really tested at claim time, the rest is the pre-game.”
In announcing Mr Johnson’s win at the AFA’s recent EVOLVE conference AFA National President, Michael Nowak, said, “Terry has many claim stories of which to be proud. Not only has he administered pro bono claims, but he always shows the utmost care to his clients when they need it the most.”
Mr Johnson said, “I want it to be as easy for the mum and dad and tradie with three kids and a mortgage to access affordable insurance advice as and when they need it, as it is for a CEO or high income earner, if not more so.”
Keyman Financial Services is a small family business, now operating in the NSW Hawkesbury region. Mr Johnson’s adult children, Benjamin and Mia, are employed in the business and both are currently undertaking their Professional Year.
Mr Johnson appeared with Synchron at the Standing Committee on Economics (the Committee) in July 2021, where he spoke about the impact of over-regulation on advisers and on inflows, which ultimately led to increasing premiums resulting in fewer people holding onto or taking out life insurance.
“It is a self-feeding cycle…that needs a circuit breaker,” he said at the time, “and it needs it urgently.”
