Industry body, the Fund Executives Association Limited (FEAL) has awarded education scholarships to five fund executives.
The scholarships are part of the FEAL Investment Education Scholarship. This year's program offered fund executives the opportunity to attend one of five conferences.
Recipients included Equipsuper's chief executive Robin Burns, Seafarers Retirement Fund's operations manager Grant Harslett, Futureplus's general manager of client services John Livanas, Buss (Q)'s chief executive David O'Sullivan and Hesta's marketing and communications manager Bruce Stafford.
FEAL's scholarship program is in partnership with Aberdeen Asset Management (Aberdeen) and the Centre for Investor Education (CIE).
Aberdeen has funded two executives to attend the CIE's International Investing Conference. This year the event will be held in New York and Montreal. CIE funds three scholarship places for fund executives to attend their local conferences.
"The scholarship is FEAL's longest running scholarship program. The calibre of scholarship applicants has always been very high and this year was no exception. The program provides a practical way we can assist our members in accessing valuable information in an intensive, professional learning environment," FEAL chief executive Michael Baldwin said.
