{"id":38648,"date":"2017-10-11T18:50:06","date_gmt":"2017-10-11T08:50:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/?p=38648"},"modified":"2017-10-11T18:54:22","modified_gmt":"2017-10-11T08:54:22","slug":"afa-names-2017-rising-star-award-winner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/2017\/10\/11\/afa-names-2017-rising-star-award-winner\/","title":{"rendered":"AFA Names 2017 Rising Star Award Winner"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The AFA has named NSW financial adviser, <strong>Mia Taylor<\/strong> of Evalesco Financial Services as the 2017 AFA Rising Star.<!--more--><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_38650\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-38650\" style=\"width: 150px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/files\/2017\/10\/Mia-Taylor-cropped.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-38650\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-38650\" src=\"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/files\/2017\/10\/Mia-Taylor-cropped.jpg\" alt=\"AFA Rising Start 2017 Award Winner, Mia Taylor\" width=\"150\" height=\"181\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-38650\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">2017 AFA Rising Star Award Winner, Mia Taylor<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Taylor was chosen from a field of six finalists at the AFA\u2019s opening session at its 2017 National Adviser Conference on the Gold Coast.<\/p>\n<p>The other finalists were<strong> Andrew Debono<\/strong> from\u00a0Announcer Group, <strong>Karlee Hoog-Antink<\/strong> from Elders Financial Planning Mackay, <strong>Keats Brydon<\/strong> from Finn Financial Planning, <strong>Lauren Walker<\/strong> from\u00a0EUROZ Securities Limited and <strong>Sam Jewell<\/strong> from Rising Tide Financial Services.<\/p>\n<p>The Award, launched in 2005 and supported by ANZ Wealth since that time, recognises advisers with four years or less experience who are making a positive contribution to the development of the next wave of<br \/>\nAFA Chief Executive, <strong>Phil Kewin<\/strong> said Taylor had established herself as an ambassador for advice and showed great skills, maturity and a sense of commitment to embodying financial health for her clients.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn a very competitive group of finalists, the\u00a0way she engages with clients and her passion and commitment for her profession and her community are what made her this year\u2019s AFA Rising Star,\u201d Kewin said.<\/p>\n<p>ANZ Wealth Head of Sales, <strong>Don Sillar<\/strong> said the firm was proud to continue to partner with the AFA in identifying and nurturing young adviser talent \u201c\u2026and we have great confidence that we will see Mia progress as an industry leader for other young advisers\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The AFA has named NSW financial adviser, Mia Taylor of Evalesco Financial Services as the 2017 AFA Rising Star.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[282,241],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38648","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-associations","category-conferences-and-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38648","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=38648"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38648\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38648"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38648"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38648"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}