{"id":23229,"date":"2013-10-15T23:05:33","date_gmt":"2013-10-15T13:05:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/?p=23229"},"modified":"2013-10-30T06:18:19","modified_gmt":"2013-10-29T20:18:19","slug":"jenny-brown-named-2013-afa-adviser-of-the-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/2013\/10\/15\/jenny-brown-named-2013-afa-adviser-of-the-year\/","title":{"rendered":"Jenny Brown Named 2013 AFA Adviser of the Year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Melbourne-based adviser, <strong>Jenny Brown<\/strong>, has won the prestigious accolade of AFA Adviser of the Year for 2013.<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/afa2013\/wp-includes\/js\/tinymce\/plugins\/wordpress\/img\/trans.gif\" alt=\"\" \/><!--more-->Ms Brown, who owns and operates her business, JBS Financial Services, under license through Professional Investment Services, was announced as this year&#8217;s winner at a gala event signalling the end of the 2013 AFA National Conference.<\/p>\n<p>The Award, sponsored since its inception by Zurich Financial Services, recognises the highest standards of excellence in advice across the entire financial services sector.<\/p>\n<p>The other five finalists in the 2013 AFA Adviser of the Year Award, each of whom operate and deliver outstanding advice services, were:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Justine Back<\/strong> \u2013 Back to Back Financial Planners (AMPFP, NSW)<\/li>\n<li><strong>William Bracey<\/strong> \u2013 Sydney Financial Planning (AMPFP, NSW)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Rory Mooney<\/strong> \u2013 Wealth By Design (Apogee, SA)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Mark Rando<\/strong> \u2013 Rando &amp; Associates (Millennium3, WA)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Kylie Wright<\/strong> \u2013 Ulton Financial Planning (PIS, Qld)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>According to the AFA, this Award recognises advisers who demonstrate outstanding leadership, advocacy and innovation.<\/p>\n<p>AFA CEO, <strong>Brad Fox<\/strong> said: \u201cJenny is an outstanding inspiration for other advisers and we believe that through her leadership and mentoring roles she will help the advice profession to develop, mature and prosper.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Mr Fox said the standard of nominations and finalists for this Award was outstanding and a true testament to financial advice maturing as a profession. \u201cWe believe that by recognising the talents of the best financial advisers in Australia and sharing these with the broader community we will create the environment where great advice can be provided to more Australians,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>The previous winners of the AFA Adviser of the Year Award have been:<\/p>\n<p>2012 \u2013<strong> Olivia Maragna<\/strong>, Qld<\/p>\n<p>2011 \u2013<strong> Troy MacMillan<\/strong>, WA<\/p>\n<p>2010 \u2013 <strong>Steve Salvia<\/strong>, WA<\/p>\n<p>2009 \u2013 <strong>Graham Campbell<\/strong>, Qld<\/p>\n<p>2008 \u2013 <strong>Paul Daily<\/strong>, Qld and <strong>Adam Smith<\/strong>, WA<\/p>\n<p>2007 \u2013 <strong>Philip Young<\/strong>, NSW<\/p>\n<p>2006 \u2013 <strong>Troy Edmondson<\/strong>, Qld<\/p>\n<p>2005 \u2013 <strong>Jim Taggart<\/strong>, NSW<\/p>\n<p>2004 \u2013 <strong>Brian Boggs<\/strong>, NSW<\/p>\n<p>2003 \u2013 <strong>Bernie Toohey<\/strong>, Vic<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Melbourne-based adviser, Jenny Brown, has won the prestigious accolade of AFA Adviser of the Year for 2013.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[241,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23229","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-conferences-and-events","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23229","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\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23229"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23229\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}