{"id":42551,"date":"2018-10-11T10:25:52","date_gmt":"2018-10-11T00:25:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/?p=42551"},"modified":"2018-10-11T18:48:15","modified_gmt":"2018-10-11T08:48:15","slug":"afa-reveals-excellence-in-education-award-winner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/2018\/10\/11\/afa-reveals-excellence-in-education-award-winner\/","title":{"rendered":"AFA Reveals Excellence in Education Award Winner"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The AFA has named a Queensland practice founder and adviser at the winner of its 2018 Excellence in Education Award.<!--more--><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_42557\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-42557\" style=\"width: 150px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/files\/2018\/10\/Felicity-Cooper-headshot.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-42557\" src=\"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/files\/2018\/10\/Felicity-Cooper-headshot.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"180\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-42557\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Felicity Cooper<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The Award, which is supported by Asteron Life, was presented to <strong>Felicity Cooper\u00a0<\/strong>of Cooper Wealth Management at the AFA\u2019s National Adviser Conference on the Gold Coast.<\/p>\n<p>Cooper was chosen from a group of five finalists and will receive\u00a0an education scholarship for study with Kaplan to the value of $25,000, while\u00a0Caleb Dozzi of dozzi Financial Advice was\u00a0highly commended\u00a0for significant achievements in furthering his education.<\/p>\n<p>According to the AFA, the finalists &#8220;&#8230;were chosen for their commitment to professional development through continuing education and making a difference within the marketplace and their local community through the practical application of their knowledge and expertise&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>The finalists were assessed across four areas including their education, their practice, and their industry and community involvement.<\/p>\n<p>The other finalists were:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Caleb Dozzi, <a href=\"https:\/\/dozzi.com.au\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">dozzi Financial Advice<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Michael Fox, <a href=\"http:\/\/mainstreetfs.com.au\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Main Street Financial Solutions<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Dean Loosmore, Lio Adviser Centre<\/li>\n<li>Helen Russo, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.encompasswealthfp.com.au\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Encompass Wealth \u2013 Financial Life Planning<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The AFA has named a Queensland practice founder and adviser at the winner of its 2018 Excellence in Education Award.<\/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-42551","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\/42551","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=42551"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42551\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42551"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42551"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42551"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}