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The University of Waterloo is set to launch a new program: Sustainability and Financial Management

Researcher provides insight into how pension holders can manage their investments to improve the odds that their retirement savings will last.

Waterloo’s School of Accounting and Finance partners with CPA Ontario and WatSPEED to deliver professional development courses 

Distinguished Professor Emeritus Peter Forsyth, Professor Ken Vetzal from the School of Accounting and Finance, and Graham Westmacott, portfolio manager at PWL Capital, have received the 2021 Brockett–Shapiro Actuarial Journal Award from ARIA — the American Risk and Insurance Association. 

The program will prepare a new generation of accounting and finance professionals to lead businesses through an era of environmental sustainability

Professor, Financial Accounting, Approved Doctoral Dissertation Supervisor

Originally published in the Arts Computing Office Newsletter.

AFM and MAcc graduates, Annu Puri (MAcc ’19) and Jacqueline Sue (MAcc ’19) virtually meet with SAF to chat about their new venture, &Vision, and how they hope to change how prospective students research and select university business programs.

Professor Andrew Bauer of the School of Accounting and Finance examines some of the things to consider when filing your taxes this year.

HONG KONG, Feb. 10, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- Recently AMTD Singapore Solidarity Fund Pte. Ltd., under AMTD ASEAN Solidarity Fund Group ("AMTD ASEAN Solidarity"), announced its first batch of investments in five innovative FinTech companies spanning across AI, SME financing solutions, insurtech, cross-border payment platform and card payment solutions. This first batch of investments amounted to S$11.5 million through a variety and innovative mix of investment structures including, among others, equities, convertible notes, venture debts, warrants and options.

SAF grad Julia and Patrick Lann's love story started on campus.

"We first met at co-op interviews at Needles Hall during our second year.  Pat and I had not crossed paths much during our first year at UW.  During the co-op interview period, Pat had two conflicting interview times and needed to swap interviews with someone, and that’s how we met. We ended up spending quite a bit of time together throughout the interview period, and by the end of those two weeks, we both knew there was something special about the other. "