AFA makes new board appointment
The Association of Financial Advisers (AFA) will announce tonight that it has appointed current chair of the AFA Inspire initiative, Deborah Kent, to its board as NSW director.
Kent will fill executive director of Australian Financial Risk Management Mark Hoskin's spot on the board and will go through the regular election process at the end of the year.
She is a certified financial planner and has been involved with industry bodies for a number of years.
Kent was on the board of the Western Sydney Business Connection serving as President for three years, and was the Financial Planning Association (FPA) Sydney Chapter chair, having also served on the FPA National Education Committee alongside Ray Griffin.
She also received the FPA Distinguished Service Award.
Kent told Money Management she was delighted with the appointment as her values aligned with those of the AFA.
"My recent opportunity to lead the creation of the AFA Inspire initiative for females in financial services has proven to me that the AFA is listening to what the market needs and proactively providing the right support to advisers to help them build best practice and professionalism so that they can provide quality advice to consumers," she said.
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