AFA announces two major award winners


The Association of Financial Advisers (AFA) has announced the winners of two awards at the 2019 AFA Conference in Adelaide.
Ben Nash of Pivot Wealth was the winner of the 2019 AFA Excellence in Education Award, sponsored by TAL.
Chris Carlin from Master Your Now was the winner of the AFA’s Rising Star Award, sponsored by OnePath.
Nash was a financial adviser and the founder of Pivot Wealth which he started to help young professionals set up easy to follow plans for their money.
Carlin was a financial planner and mortgage broker who founded Master Your Money Now, a Geelong-based business launched in July 2018.
Carlin had joined the financial advice industry in 2011 as a paraplanner, and had been working as a financial adviser since March 2016 and mortgage broke since February 2019.
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