Fox departs with hardly a hair out of place
Outsider wishes out-going Association of Financial Advisers (AFA) chief executive, Brad Fox, well as he departs the organisation he has led for the past four years.
There can be no doubting that Fox found himself leading the AFA through some difficult times given the significant number of risk advisers in its membership and the challenges which emerged out of the Trowbridge Inquiry and the Life Insurance Framework (LIF).
From what Outsider can tell, it is safe to say that the challenges which confronted the AFA over the past three years saw Fox working long and arduous hours at the same time as undertaking the weekly commute between his home in Melbourne and AFA headquarters in Sydney.
As someone who occasionally caught up with Fox in various airport lounges around Australia, Outsider can attest to the fact that the big man’s work ethic was every bit as committed as when he was playing Aussie Rules for Essendon and Richmond.
The challenges confronting Fox at the AFA might have sent a lot of lesser men positively grey, but Outsider is happy to report that he has detected no change to the big man’s tonsorial qualities. Not a hair out of place.
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