{"id":4707,"date":"2010-02-01T14:35:45","date_gmt":"2010-02-01T04:35:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/?p=4707"},"modified":"2020-02-06T08:08:11","modified_gmt":"2020-02-05T21:08:11","slug":"jim-taggart-awarded-oam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/2010\/02\/01\/jim-taggart-awarded-oam\/","title":{"rendered":"Jim Taggart Awarded OAM"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>AFA President and long-time financial adviser,\u00a0<strong>Jim Taggart<\/strong>, has been awarded the Medal of the Order of Australia in this year&#8217;s Australia Day Honours List.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->Recognised for his work in his community, Mr Taggart&#8217;s citation was for:<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_4736\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4736\" style=\"width: 126px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/files\/2010\/02\/taggart-jim2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-4736\" src=\"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/files\/2010\/02\/taggart-jim2.jpg\" alt=\"Jim Taggart\" width=\"126\" height=\"190\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-4736\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jim Taggart<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><em>&#8220;&#8230; service to the community of Baulkham Hills through a range of service, charitable and sporting organisations.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Mr Taggart\u00a0has managed and run his\u00a0financial advice\u00a0practice since 1987, now operating under his own AFSL licence with the Taggart Group.<\/p>\n<p>His\u00a0passion for his work has\u00a0has inspired many within the financial services industry, and he carries the same passion to all other aspects of his life.<\/p>\n<p>AFA CEO, <strong>Richard Klipin<\/strong>, said the advice profession needs advisers who aspire to the high standard set by Dr Taggart:<\/p>\n<h6>Jim has provided advisers with a yardstick with which to measure their own commitment to the profession<\/h6>\n<p>&#8220;Jim has provided advisers with a yardstick with which to measure their own commitment to the profession. \u00a0He has invested in his own education, his own business, his community, the broader community and the advice industry.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;In a nutshell, he has made a commitment to excellence and practises what he preaches.\u00a0 He is an outstanding example to his peers and an inspiration to younger advisers,&#8221; said Mr Klipin.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AFA President and long-time financial adviser,\u00a0Jim Taggart, has been awarded the Medal of the Order of Australia in this year&#8217;s Australia Day Honours List.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4707","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4707","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=4707"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4707\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4707"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4707"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4707"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}