{"id":28426,"date":"2015-01-13T17:59:22","date_gmt":"2015-01-13T06:59:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/?p=28426"},"modified":"2015-01-13T17:59:22","modified_gmt":"2015-01-13T06:59:22","slug":"queensland-adviser-to-become-australias-first-mdrt-president","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/2015\/01\/13\/queensland-adviser-to-become-australias-first-mdrt-president\/","title":{"rendered":"Queensland Adviser to Become Australia&#8217;s First MDRT President"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Highly-regarded Queensland adviser, <strong>Ross Vanderwolf<\/strong>, has been confirmed as the 2015 nominee for appointment to the Executive Committee of the global Million Dollar Round Table organisation.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_28431\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-28431\" style=\"width: 150px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/files\/2015\/01\/Ross-Vanderwolf-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-28431\" alt=\"2015 MDRT Executive Committee nominee, Queensland adviser, Ross Vanderwolf\" src=\"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/files\/2015\/01\/Ross-Vanderwolf-2.jpg\" width=\"150\" height=\"180\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-28431\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">2015 MDRT Executive Committee nominee, Queensland adviser, Ross Vanderwolf<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Mr Vanderwolf&#8217;s nomination and eventual appointment to the five-person MDRT Executive Committee, which includes its Immediate Past President, means he will become Australia&#8217;s first global MDRT President in 2018\/19.<\/p>\n<p>He has been an adviser for 33 years and is a 27-year MDRT member, during which time he has contributed to many aspects of the organisation&#8217;s operations and services. Mr Vanderwolf is based in Fortitude Valley in Brisbane, where he is Managing Director of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rothgard.com.au\/\" target=\"_blank\">Rothgard Financial Partners<\/a>, a full-service financial planning practice.<\/p>\n<h6>This is an amazing recognition of the value of Australian advisers&#8230;<\/h6>\n<p>MDRT Oceania chair, <strong>Ross Hultgren<\/strong>, commented \u201cThis is an amazing recognition of the value of Australian advisers in the international arena of Financial Services.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Mr Hultgren continued, \u201cWe have a strong adviser base in a very mature market place. Our understanding of both compliance requirements and consumer needs has seen Australian advisers become a sought after resource to other countries \u2013 offering values and models that ensure ongoing sustainability.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Mr Vanderwolf&#8217;s nomination will be confirmed at the MDRT annual general meeting later this year, and he will be making a keynote address to delegates at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdrt.org\/2015am\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">2015 MDRT Annual Meeting<\/a>, taking place in New Orleans from June 14 &#8211; 17.<\/p>\n<p><em>Originally formed in the US in 1927, MDRT is now a global organisation of financial advisers, boasting 42,000 members across 71 countries.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Highly-regarded Queensland adviser, Ross Vanderwolf, has been confirmed as the 2015 nominee for appointment to the Executive Committee of the global Million Dollar Round Table organisation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[249,282],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28426","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-appointments","category-associations"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28426","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=28426"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28426\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28426"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28426"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28426"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}