FINANCIAL ADVISER NEWS		Volume 36, December 2009
Looking back on 2009
As 2009 draws to a close, we believe that it is important to reflect on some of the wonderful events and fantastic successes FMI have achieved in a landmark year for our business. Early in 2009, we welcomed Willem Smith to FMI as Chairman of the board. Conrad Backeberg and Johnny Symmonds also both joined the board of FMI as Non-Executive Directors. The three new members have brought a wealth of experience in the financial services industry to FMI. If you would like to find out a bit more information about our board members please visit http://www.fmi.co.za/corp_senior.aspx for a brief overview.
October was a truly eventful and exciting month for FMI. Firstly, as part of our growth strategy, FMI entered into a partnership with Lombard Insurance Group and as a result, Lombard acquired a 15% shareholding in FMI. This exciting development has enabled FMI to effectively deliver on our promise of continuous product development, innovation and service excellence which results in an unbeatable risk solution for our clients.
	Secondly, FMI introduced two enhanced products to the market. Both our individual product – BPE, and group product – Vision, have been designed to work in conjunction with one another to offer business owners and their staff industry leading income protection cover in order to safeguard their businesses. Business Person Elect was re-launched with some truly innovative enhancements such as an accident only benefit and also increased cover levels. Vision has been redesigned with greatly improved benefits in order to accommodate both blue and white collared workers and now includes family cover and the ability to cater for more than one set of financial requirements within a group of employees. Both product upgrades help to ensure that FMI remains the leader in providing innovative and current risk benefits to business owners and their staff complements.
As this will be the final newsletter for 2009, we would like to take this opportunity to thank all our valued Financial Advisers for your support during the year. This year has been a challenging one for most but also very exciting and successful for FMI and without your support we would not have been able to achieve the growth we achieved this year. Here’s wishing you a very relaxing and safe festive season and a prosperous 2010.
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