{"id":8297,"date":"2010-10-28T18:00:47","date_gmt":"2010-10-28T07:00:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/?p=8297"},"modified":"2020-02-06T08:12:22","modified_gmt":"2020-02-05T21:12:22","slug":"katherine-hunt-wins-afa-student-of-the-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/2010\/10\/28\/katherine-hunt-wins-afa-student-of-the-year\/","title":{"rendered":"Katherine Hunt Wins 2010 AFA Student of the Year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Katherine Hunt<\/strong> of Aspire Financial Planning has won this year&#8217;s Association of Financial Advisers Student of the Year Award.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->The award, sponsored by Asteron since its inception in 2008, recognises the outstanding performance and achievements of financial advice students.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We are delighted to sponsor the award,&#8221; said Asteron General Manager, <strong>Jordan Hawke<\/strong>.\u00a0 &#8220;[The award] demonstrates to the adviser community and to consumers how passionate our industry is about education levels amongst advisers,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>Queensland-based Ms Hunt, who was\u00a0\u00a0also a finalist in the 2009\u00a0AFA Student of the Year State Award, holds a degree in Psychological Science and Commerce (Financial Planning) from Griffith University and a First Class Honours Degree in Finance, where she earnt the University Medal (Dux).<\/p>\n<p>Outgoing AFA National President, <strong>Dr Jim Taggart<\/strong>, said that the AFA was committed to education and ongoing learning and very pleased with this year&#8217;s winner.\u00a0 &#8220;We continue to see outstanding talent amongst our student of the year candidates and Katherine is no exception,&#8221; Dr Taggart said.\u00a0 &#8220;She is committed to her profession and to her clients and is making a major contribution to enhancing the reputation of the profession as a whole.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Previous winners of the AFA Student of the Year Award are:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>2008: <strong>Jo Bean<\/strong>(Tas)<\/li>\n<li>2009: <strong>Dr Dennis Maddern<\/strong> (Vic)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Katherine Hunt of Aspire Financial Planning has won this year&#8217;s Association of Financial Advisers Student of the Year Award.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[282,3,248],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-8297","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-associations","7":"category-general","8":"category-training"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8297","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\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8297"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8297\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8297"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8297"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8297"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}