The chief executive of NGS Super, Anthony Rodwell-Ball, is the inaugural winner of a scholarship jointly sponsored by the Fund Executives Association and KPMG.
Rodwell-Ball was named the winner of the FEAL Wharton Scholarship, which will allow him to attend the Investment Strategies and Portfolio Management program offered by Wharton Business Collect in the US.
Rodwell-Ball said he would use the time at Wharton to develop a deeper knowledge and gain tools to make better decisions for his superannuation fund and its members.
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The equities investor has launched a new long-short fund seeded by UniSuper, targeting alpha from ASX 300 equities using AI insights.
The fund has strengthened efforts to boost gender diversity, targeting 40:40:20 balance across its investment teams by 2030.
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