ASISA Academy Newsflash – January 2025

As always, the ASISA Academy’s annual graduation ceremonies, held in Cape Town and Johannesburg in January, were wonderful, inspiring events. Watching our delegates who had completed the Financial Markets Practitioner Learnership, the UCT-endorsed short courses and the various internships during 2024 beaming with pride....

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ASISA Academy Newsflash – November 2024

As we take stock of the year gone by and plan for next year it is more than a little pleasing to look at how far we have come. We trained more than 4 000 people this year, a big jump from the 104 people who came through the ASISA Academy’s doors in 2008. 

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ASISA Academy Newsflash – October 2024

I am inspired by people who not only have an ambitious vision for their lives but who work with dogged determination to acquire the requisite knowledge and skills to achieve their goals. One such person is Cecilia Nkwali, who got her start in the financial services industry as a tea lady at Momentum Investment Management and who, over the...

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ASISA Academy Newsflash – September 2024

Reading Siya Kolisi’s Rise, the official autobiography of our beloved Springbok rugby captain, in September was such a great reminder about heritage, specifically how what we inherit and what we pass on can be so different. It also reminded me of how rich and diverse our heritage in South Africa is. I believe that the....

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ASISA Academy Newsflash – August 2024

Women’s Month is always an interesting time to reflect on our past, as well as to contemplate the future. As much as I cherish events focused on the extraordinary women in our country who are leading from the front (and those who are hot on their heels), this is also a time to celebrate the women on whose shoulders we stand.

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ASISA Academy Newsflash – July 2024

On July 18 this year, it wasn’t so much the enormous upwelling of generosity in commemoration of our beloved Nelson Mandela’s birthday that struck me, but the wider context of giving without expecting anything in return that has always surrounded me, from my childhood. The annual tidal wave of kindness shown by South Africans volunteering 67 minutes

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ASISA Academy Newsflash – June 2024

“You are the pioneers! Break those glass ceilings so that others can follow.” With this strong message, Adrian Burke, CEO of the Association for Savings and Investment South Africa (ASISA), provided a fitting send-off for the first group of graduates to complete the Fezeka Graduate Programme. After 15 challenging months, all eight young...

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