{"id":8067,"date":"2010-10-13T08:26:51","date_gmt":"2010-10-12T21:26:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/?p=8067"},"modified":"2020-10-12T08:29:53","modified_gmt":"2020-10-11T22:29:53","slug":"finalists-named-in-afa-rising-star-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/2010\/10\/13\/finalists-named-in-afa-rising-star-award\/","title":{"rendered":"Finalists Named in AFA Rising Star Award"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Six of the best young advisers in the industry have been recognised with\u00a0the announcement of the finalists in the 2010 AFA Rising Star Award.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->Now in its sixth year, the Award, sponsored by ING Australia, recognises up-and-coming advisers who provide quality, holistic advice, who demonstrate a commitment to education and who make a valuable contribution to their industry and to their community.<\/p>\n<p>This year&#8217;s final six, dominated by Queensland-based advisers,\u00a0are:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Nikkii Park<\/strong> (QLD) Risk QLD<\/li>\n<li><strong>Andrew Shakespeare<\/strong> (NSW) JSA Financial Planning Group<\/li>\n<li><strong>Michael Batten<\/strong> (QLD) Batten Financial Services<\/li>\n<li><strong>Mark Rattigan<\/strong>(WA) Merideon Wealth Strategies<\/li>\n<li><strong>Paul Trosti<\/strong> (NSW) Godfrey Pembroke<\/li>\n<li><strong>Christopher Jones<\/strong>(QLD) RI Advice (RetireInvest)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The importance and value of the AFA Rising Star has been further validated this year, with its 2007 winner, <strong>Chris Browne<\/strong>, selected as a finalist in the <a href=\"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/2010\/10\/07\/adviser-of-the-year-finalists-announced\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">2010 AFA Adviser of the Year Award<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Reflecting the high quality of this year&#8217;s candidates, AFA CEO, <strong>Richard Klipin<\/strong>, said the finalists have a pedigree education, are innovative, passionate and committed to their communities and their industry: &#8220;Everything that is good about the advice industry resonates through these outstanding candidates,&#8221;\u00a0said Mr Klipin.<\/p>\n<p>In sponsoring the Award\u00a0since its inception,\u00a0ING Australia&#8217;s Head of Retail Insurance Products, <strong>Gerard Kerr<\/strong>, said &#8220;It&#8217;s our way of helping recognise, celebrate and support tomorrow&#8217;s leaders.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Previous winners of the AFA Rising Star Award are:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>2005: <strong>Esther Althaus<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>2006: <strong>Jason Danjoux<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>2007: <strong>Chris Browne<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>2008: <strong>Brad Fox<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>2009: <strong>Christopher Southgate<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>This year&#8217;s winner will be announced at the <a href=\"http:\/\/afa.asn.au\/conference\/2010\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">2010 AFA National Conference <\/a>on the Gold Coast on Sunday 24 October.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Six of the best young advisers in the industry have been recognised with\u00a0the announcement of the finalists in the 2010 AFA Rising Star Award.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[282,241,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8067","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-associations","category-conferences-and-events","category-general","headers-new"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8067","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=8067"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8067\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8067"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8067"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8067"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}