News

Exposure Draft for the Code of Ethics and Standards of Professional Conduct
Feb/01/2023

The Exposure Draft for the Code of Ethics and Standards of Professional Conduct is available for public comment through 6 March 2023.

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Annual report
Dec/23/2022

We share our Annual Report for the period 2021/2022

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Regional Ethics Challenge
Nov/25/2022

The 24th November CFA Society Perú hosted the Regional Final of the Ethics Challenge where Uruguay was represented by a team of Universidad ORT.

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The Strong Dollar: A Blessing or a Curse
Nov/10/2022

We held the webinar “The Strong Dollar: a Blessing or a Curse” co organized with Colchester Global Investors, CFA Society Chile and CFA Society Brazil.

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Uruguay in the 12th position on the Mercer Index
Oct/14/2022

The Mercer CFA Institute Global Pension Index benchmarks 44 retirement income systems around the world, highlighting challenges and opportunities within each.

The index is made up of three sub-indices – adequacy, sustainability and integrity – to measure each retirement income system against more than 50 indicators.

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Award Ceremony
Aug/30/2022

We held the Award Ceremony 2022 on the 29th august @ Hotel Costanero.

Thank you all members, family and friends that joined the event!

Congratulations to our new generation of Charterholders!

 

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The possible reform
Aug/23/2022

We held the event  “Uruguayan Provisional System: possible reform, where are we going?” organized together with the National Academy of Economy.

Three specialists shared their reflections and suggestions. On the one hand, the economist and head of the funded pension unit of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), Pablo Antolín; the specialist, Bárbara Mainzer; and the analyst, José Licandro. (more…)

Sustainable Finance: Myth and Reality
Aug/03/2022

The 3rd of August we held the conference “Sustainable Finance: Myth and Reality” co hosted with Academia Nacional de Economía where Barbara Mainzer, CFA highlighted Uruguay’s opportunities in relation to ESG factors.

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Capital Market Development
Jul/27/2022

On 27th July we held the event ” Capital Market Devolpment” co hosted with National Academy in which Julio de Brun, Alberto Estrada and Carlos Steneri where the speakers. They assessed that the country should take advantage of the prestige and solidity it has in the region – in contrast to the weaknesses of our neighbors – to strengthen itself as “a financing platform on a regional scale”

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Ecctis Benchmarks the CFA Charter
Jun/28/2022

CFA designation found to be comparable to Master’s degree standard across 12 markets globally

CFA Institute, the global association of investment professionals, announces today that Ecctis, a UK-based and internationally respected reference point for global qualifications and skills standards, has deemed the CFA charter comparable to Regulated Qualifications Framework (RQF) Level 7 and Master’s degree standard in 12 markets in a recent study; those markets account for over 80 percent of CFA Program candidate volumes.

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