{"id":34761,"date":"2016-09-27T13:00:31","date_gmt":"2016-09-27T03:00:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/?p=34761"},"modified":"2016-09-28T05:54:40","modified_gmt":"2016-09-27T19:54:40","slug":"news-in-brief-197","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/2016\/09\/27\/news-in-brief-197\/","title":{"rendered":"News in Brief"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>Rising Star Finalists Named<\/li>\n<li>Former LUA President Passes Away<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><strong>Rising Star Finalists Named<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Six finalists have been named in the 2016 Association of Financial Advisers (AFA) Rising Star of the Year Award, supported by ANZ Wealth.<\/p>\n<p>The AFA stated the entrants for this year\u2019s award had shown strong capabilities in all area with AFA Chief Executive Brad Fox stating that financial advice had become an attractive profession to new entrants.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are seeing the work the industry has done over the past five or so years to promote our profession now coming through in terms of professional qualifications, experience and most importantly, a desire to provide clear, transparent and trusted advice.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>ANZ Wealth Head of Sales, Don Sillar says, &#8220;The professionalism, education and passion of the candidates this year confirmed these Rising Stars are focused on delivering great advice to their clients.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The 2016 AFA Rising Star of the Year Award finalists are:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Peter Hodgson \u2013 ANZ Financial Planning<\/li>\n<li>Cathryn Gross \u2013 The Wealth Network<\/li>\n<li>Brent Story \u2013 AMP Financial Planning<\/li>\n<li>Maritza Kriel \u2013 Synchron<\/li>\n<li>Gregory Adam Bloom \u2013 Yellow Brick Road<\/li>\n<li>Erin Truscott \u2013 Financial Wisdom<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>This year\u2019s judging panel included:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Brad Fox \u2013 CEO of AFA<\/li>\n<li>Jenny Brown \u2013 Founder and CEO of JBS Financial Strategists<\/li>\n<li>Don Sillar \u2013 Head of Sales, ANZ Wealth<\/li>\n<li>Laura Halbert \u2013 Head of Marketing, ANZ Wealth<\/li>\n<li>Chris Browne \u2013 Founder Rising Tide and 2007 Rising Star Winner<\/li>\n<li>Dave Slovinec \u2013 State Director SA\/NT \u2013 AFA<\/li>\n<li>Matthew Hawkins \u2013 State Director TAS \u2013 AFA, Director Scanlon Richardson Financial Group<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The Award winner will be announced at the AFA National Conference at the National Convention Centre in Canberra on 7 October 2016.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Former LUA President Passes Away<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A former President of the Life Underwriters Association (AFA)has passed away aged 85.<\/p>\n<p>Charles \u2018Chic\u2019 Wilson was President of the LUA from 1982 to 1984 and played an active role of mentoring many of his colleagues and was a trail blazer into the field of Group Life and Group Salary Continuance, the AFA stated in a message to members.<\/p>\n<p>The Association said Wilson was widely recognised as a visionary for advice including making the decision to radically change his business at age 55, which paid handsome dividends.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe had foresight and courage, and was a collegiate professional that believed in sharing his knowledge,\u201d the AFA stated.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rising Star Finalists Named Former LUA President Passes Away<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[282],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34761","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-associations"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34761","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=34761"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34761\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34761"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34761"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34761"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}