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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ASISA Academy Newsflash – May 2024

I am delighted to share that the eight young women who joined the ASISA Academy’s inaugural Fezeka Graduate Programme in 2023 all successfully completed their intense 15 months of academic and practical work in May. 

Not one succumbed to the enormous pressure of what is essentially a baptism of fire for Black South African female graduates...

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ASISA Academy Newsflash – April 2024

One of our key objectives is to create desperately needed employment opportunities for Black graduates who want to pursue a career in the savings and investment industry. We do this by bridging the gap between tertiary education and the skills required by employers. Our internship and graduate programmes have proven very effective in achieving...

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ASISA Academy Newsflash – March 2024

On Monday, 4 March 2024, 44 Black graduates participating in our ninth Independent Financial Advisor (IFA) Internship reported to host practices around the country for their first day of work. This is our biggest group of IFA interns yet, a proud moment for the ASISA Academy. The interns will be guided into a career in financial planning over 12 months by established IFA practices.

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