{"id":36802,"date":"2017-04-25T15:50:29","date_gmt":"2017-04-25T04:50:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/?p=36802"},"modified":"2017-04-26T00:24:14","modified_gmt":"2017-04-25T13:24:14","slug":"fortnum-appoints-former-bt-advice-exec","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/2017\/04\/25\/fortnum-appoints-former-bt-advice-exec\/","title":{"rendered":"Fortnum Appoints Former BT Advice Exec"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Non-aligned advice group, <a href=\"http:\/\/fortnum.com.au\/\" target=\"_blank\">Fortnum Private Wealth<\/a>, has appointed a former advice executive from BT Financial Group (BTFG) as its new Head of Advice.<!--more--><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_36803\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-36803\" style=\"width: 149px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/files\/2017\/04\/KerryThomas.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-36803\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-36803\" src=\"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/files\/2017\/04\/KerryThomas.jpg\" alt=\"Fortnum Head of Advice, Kerry Thomas\" width=\"149\" height=\"180\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-36803\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Fortnum Head of Advice, Kerry Thomas<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Fortnum announced it had recruited BTFG National Manager &#8211; Practice Advice, <strong>Kerry Thomas<\/strong> to take on the newly created role as part of an ongoing restructure across the group.<\/p>\n<p>Thomas comes to the role after 15 years in financial services, having spent the last nine years in a range of roles at BTFG or other Westpac owned businesses, and will be responsible for delivering Fortnum\u2019s professional advice program to its network of advisers.<\/p>\n<p>The appointment of Thomas, who will report to Fortnum Managing Director, <strong>Joel Taylor<\/strong>, comes as the group also announced the appointment of <strong>Cassandra Mackay<\/strong> to the role of Practice Technology Manager, who was previously Digital Advice Manager at Bendigo and Adelaide Bank.<\/p>\n<p>Fortnum Financial Group Chief Executive and Managing Director, <strong>Neil Younger<\/strong> said the appointments were part of a restructure designed to strengthen and streamline the processes used by advisers, with Thomas to lead the delivery of new advice initiatives across the group.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Non-aligned advice group, Fortnum Private Wealth, has appointed a former advice executive from BT Financial Group (BTFG) as its new Head of Advice.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[249,6],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-36802","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-appointments","7":"category-dealer-groups"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36802","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=36802"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36802\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36802"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36802"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36802"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}