{"id":7385,"date":"2010-08-11T09:48:39","date_gmt":"2010-08-10T22:48:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/?p=7385"},"modified":"2020-02-06T08:11:31","modified_gmt":"2020-02-05T21:11:31","slug":"new-australian-mdrt-chair","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/2010\/08\/11\/new-australian-mdrt-chair\/","title":{"rendered":"New Australian MDRT Chair"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mdrtaustralia.net\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Australian Million Dollar Round Table<\/a> has announced Adelaide-based adviser, <strong>John Campbell<\/strong> will become the Associations new Australian Chairman.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->Mr Campbell has been an adviser for 32 years and was a finalist in last year&#8217;s AFA Adviser of the Year Award.<\/p>\n<p>He takes over from outgoing Chair, <strong>Stuart Farrell<\/strong>, who steps down on 1 September after two years at the helm of MDRT Australia.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_7396\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7396\" style=\"width: 129px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/files\/2010\/08\/campbell-john2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-7396\" src=\"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/files\/2010\/08\/campbell-john2.jpg\" alt=\"New MDRT Australia Chair, John Campbell\" width=\"129\" height=\"173\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-7396\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">New MDRT Australia Chair, John Campbell<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<div class=\"mceTemp\">The Association\u00a0has also announced the appointment of well-known adviser, <strong>Bev Carlyon<\/strong>, to the position of Regional Chair for USA, Canada and Oceania.\u00a0 MDRT says this is a senior role and demonstrates the regard in which Australian advisers are held by their worldwide peers.<\/div>\n<p>At the end of his two-year tenure as its Australian\u00a0Chairman, Mr Farrell aligned his Associations&#8217; position on adviser remuneration with that of the AFA, which advocates that the client should have the power to decide how an adviser is paid.<\/p>\n<h6>&#8230; continuity of client service and advice is financial services&#8217; greatest challenge<\/h6>\n<p>Mr Farrell added that continuity of client service and advice is financial services&#8217; greatest challenge as many of the industry&#8217;s Baby Boomer advisers transition into retirement.<\/p>\n<p>MDRT Australia has also recognised long-term membership milestones of the Association, congratulating the following advisers:<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">40 Years<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Bruce Flick<\/strong> (NSW)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">35 Years<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>John Goldsbrough<\/strong> (NSW)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Graham Poole<\/strong> (NSW)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Tony Bongiorno<\/strong> (VIC)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Joe Bongiorno<\/strong> (VIC)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Jack Headland <\/strong>(NSW)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Bob Nixon<\/strong> (VIC)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Max Spencer<\/strong> (ACT)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">30 Years<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Roger Boyle<\/strong> (NSW)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Sam Siragusa<\/strong> (VIC)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">25 Years<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Peter Hartnell<\/strong> (VIC)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Jeff Slabe<\/strong> (VIC)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">20 Years<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Tony Carlyon<\/strong> (NSW)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Russell Harrison<\/strong> (VIC)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">15 Years<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Fred Gordan<\/strong> (NSW)<\/li>\n<li><strong>George Varnavsky<\/strong> (NSW)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Australian Million Dollar Round Table has announced Adelaide-based adviser, John Campbell will become the Associations new Australian Chairman.<\/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-7385","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-appointments","category-associations"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7385","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=7385"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7385\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7385"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7385"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7385"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}