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IFA welcomes Cotton appointment, deadline back on track
Friday 15th of May 2009
Cotton met with IFA delegates, in Wellington, at the institute's annual council meeting yesterday after her appointment, and impressed president Lyn McMorran. McMorran said the appointment has made the 2010 deadline for implementing regulation "realistic", and the next step is for the new commissioner to appoint a committee to write the code of conduct for advisers.
"She's a really posit...
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