In 1969 John Collard (JC) started in the Financial Planning industry in Melbourne as an AMP agent and over the years has given advice to people working in industries such as Government, Aviation and various group schemes. John later spent 17 years working for National Mutual before joining Synchron in 1991. In 1994 John moved to the Echuca area where he established Rich River Insurances where he provided general insurance, life insurance and superannuation advice to people all over Victoria and New South Wales. In 2020, JC semi-retired and sold his long-standing and successful business to Michael Anderson who renamed it Rich River Wealth.
After being in the Financial Services industry for 19 years, Peter Mitchell started his own business called Mitch Money in 2012 under the Synchron dealer group, with a focus on helping families and younger people who weren’t receiving the type of advice and service they deserved. In 2020, Peter semi-retired and sold his highly respected business to Rich River Wealth.
John Daniel is local to the Swan Hill area, originally starting out as an AMP agent in 1989, he then moved into his own office with one staff member by 1995. John sold his general insurance business in 2001 to focus on Financial Planning, then in 2003 he moved to Charter Financial Planning and joined the LBA Group which was later purchased by Steadfast and change to ASPARQ. In March 2020, John began trading as ‘Insight Financial Planning’ in Swan Hill through licensee AVALONFS. In 2021, John decided he wanted to take a step back from Financial Planning so that he can spend more time on other projects. With aligned values, client care and culture between himself and Michael Anderson, he decided to partner with Rich River Wealth and now works part-time in Financial Planning.