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Upkar Arora (BA '85, MAcc '85) understands just how powerful our investments can be.

He joins us to talk about his work at Rally Assets, an impact investment firm. Plus, he speaks about his personal investments to Waterloo as an alumnus, donor and committed volunteer. Why does he care so deeply about our University community? How does he hope these investments will impact the world? How can others make an impact too?

Every year, we have a challenge: to select just 100 women to receive our Canada’s Most Powerful Women: Top 100 Awards. These are women who personify what it means to be powerful through the way they empower and champion others, influence change and stand up for all of us. And as Top 100 winners, they stand among more than 1,000 powerful leaders across Canada who share that honour… and our thanks.

Bill Anderson, Chairman of Sun Life Financial Inc. (TSX: SLF) (NYSE: SLF), announced today that Sun Life President and Chief Executive Officer, Dean Connor intends to retire August 6, 2021.

Kevin Strain, currently Executive Vice-President and Chief Financial Officer, will be appointed as President and a member of the Sun Life Board of Directors effective February 15, 2021. He will assume the Chief Executive Officer role upon Mr. Connor's retirement. Mr. Connor will also retire from the Sun Life Board of Directors in accordance with company policy.

The Chartered Professional Accountants of Ontario (CPA Ontario) celebrated the appointments of those named to CPA Fellowship. Among the 50 newly named FCPAs, were 8 SAF alumni and Dave Vert, retired faculty member of Waterloo’s School of Accounting and Finance (SAF).

Mike focuses on financial literacy month. First, Judith Robertson, Commissioner of the Financial Consumer Agency of Canada, speaks about what her organization does and what they’re focusing on during financial literacy month. Then Tracy Hilpert, a Lecturer of Managerial Accounting with the University of Waterloo’s School of Accounting and Finance and the Director of the department’s Financial Literacy Competition joins to explain how their competition teaches financial literacy to high school students and how classes can get involved.

Tony Wirjanto, a curator for Insurance and Asset Management for the World Economic Forum and professor at the School of Accounting and Finance, takes us through how COVID-19 has affected the insurance industry, and what can be done about it.

The repercussions of COVID-19 and worsening climate change are among the issues that will impact the insurance industry, according to Tony Wirjanto, University of Waterloo professor.
 
Wirjanto, working as a curator in Insurance and Asset Management for the World Economic Forum (WEF), identified eight key issues poised to influence the insurance industry in the recently released WEF Transformation Maps.

Canadian mid-market private equity firm Ironbridge Equity Partners has promoted Tanya Babalawo to chief financial officer and Daivik Doshi to vice president.

Canada’s Top 40 Under 40 is a dynamic awards program that identifies outstanding young achievers in Canadian business, visionaries and innovators changing the way things are done. They are inspiring others and already giving back to their communities and to Canada. And every one of them is under the age of forty.

Amy Lei, BAFM ’17, used her time at SAF to uncover her passion of teaching and to eventually land her dream job at Mink Capital, uniting the two things she loves the most - teaching and finance!

Shortly after graduating from the University of Waterloo, I began my full-time career in the investment banking group at TD Securities. I obtained this opportunity thanks to the University of Waterloo’s fantastic co-op program,