{"id":42601,"date":"2018-10-12T21:22:11","date_gmt":"2018-10-12T11:22:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/?p=42601"},"modified":"2018-10-15T09:01:16","modified_gmt":"2018-10-14T23:01:16","slug":"twd-australia-named-as-2018-practice-of-the-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/2018\/10\/12\/twd-australia-named-as-2018-practice-of-the-year\/","title":{"rendered":"TWD Australia Named as 2018 Practice of the Year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left\">Perth based advisory firm\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.twd.com.au\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">TWD Australia<\/a>\u00a0has won the 2018 AFA Practice of the Year Award.<!--more--><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_42622\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-42622\" style=\"width: 151px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/files\/2018\/10\/Troy-MacMillanA.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-42622\" src=\"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/files\/2018\/10\/Troy-MacMillanA.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"151\" height=\"180\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-42622\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">TWD Australia Chief Executive, Troy MacMillan<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The firm was presented with the Award during the gala dinner of the AFA\u2019s National Adviser Conference ahead of finalists <a href=\"http:\/\/www.multiforte.com.au\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Multiforte Financial Services<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.panoramicfs.com.au\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Panoramic Financial Solutions<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In its fifth year, the AFA stated the award \u201c\u2026recognises advice businesses which are at the forefront of taking the profession forward through innovation, customer centricity and advice excellence\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>The Award was presented as a joint AFA initiative with Zurich, which also supports the AFA Adviser of the Year Award (see:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/2018\/10\/12\/hugh-robertson-w\u2026iser-of-the-year\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Hugh Robertson Wins 2018 AFA Adviser of the Year)<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In a similar process to the\u00a0Adviser of the Year Award, the nominees and finalists undergo an extensive and detailed judging process including a client feedback survey, site visit, examination of advice documents and interviews with staff, and a final presentation to the judging panel.<\/p>\n<p>TWD Australia was represented by Chief Executive, <strong>Troy MacMillan<\/strong> who said the firm focused on the opportunity of reaching people without advice.<\/p>\n<p>\u201dWe have a strong belief in how advice should be delivered and the only thing that has changed over the years has been the size of our business,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Perth based advisory firm\u00a0TWD Australia\u00a0has won the 2018 AFA Practice of the Year 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-42601","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\/42601","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=42601"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42601\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42601"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42601"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42601"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}