{"id":37446,"date":"2017-06-20T15:45:01","date_gmt":"2017-06-20T05:45:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/?p=37446"},"modified":"2017-06-20T22:52:38","modified_gmt":"2017-06-20T12:52:38","slug":"afas-hakes-appointed-to-asian-pacific-education-board","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/2017\/06\/20\/afas-hakes-appointed-to-asian-pacific-education-board\/","title":{"rendered":"AFA Senior Staffer Appointed to Asia Pacific Education Board"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>AFA\u00a0General Manager, Member Services, Partnerships and Campus, <strong>Nick Hakes<\/strong> has been appointed as the Vice Chair of the\u00a0of the Asia Pacific Financial Services Association (APFinSA) International Certifications &amp; Standards Board.<!--more--><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_34095\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-34095\" style=\"width: 150px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/files\/2016\/08\/NickHakes-cropped.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-34095\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-34095\" src=\"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/files\/2016\/08\/NickHakes-cropped.jpg\" alt=\"AFA GM Member Services, Partnerships &amp; Campus AFA, Nick Hakes \" width=\"150\" height=\"180\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-34095\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">AFA GM Member Services, Partnerships &amp; Campus AFA, Nick Hakes<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The\u00a0APFinSA represents 100,000 financial advisers across 11 country associations and awards the Fellow Chartered Financial Practitioner (FChFP) designation through those member associations.<\/p>\n<p>AFA Chief Executive, <strong>Phil Kewin<\/strong> said that Hakes appointment &#8220;&#8230;demonstrates that the Australian advice profession and our education program are held in the highest esteem by our Asia-Pacific neighbours&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>The appointment\u00a0coincides with the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) between APFinSA and the European Financial Planning Association (EFPA) which starts a process for\u00a0the EFPA to formally recognise the\u00a0APFinSA\u2019s FChFP designation.<\/p>\n<p>The FChFP designation is offered in Australia through\u00a0AFA to its members, with Hakes commenting that the MOU recognises the value and quality of the designation while also extending its global footprint.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AFA\u00a0General Manager, Member Services, Partnerships and Campus, Nick Hakes has been appointed as the Vice Chair of the\u00a0of the Asia Pacific Financial Services Association (APFinSA) International Certifications &amp; Standards Board.<\/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-37446","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-appointments","category-associations"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37446","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=37446"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37446\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37446"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37446"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37446"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}