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Sign Up for Adopt-A-Coop!

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Adopt-A-Coop offers you the perfect opportunity to build a relationship with an upper year mentor and develop your professional skills. What are you waiting for? Applications are due on September 7, 2013 at 11:59 pm. If you have any questions please email the project managers at adopt@uwafsa.ca Sign up form: http://jotform.co/form/32114237743852

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Call for Applications for the Student Investment Team for the Fall 2013 Term

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*This is a reminder email about the opportunity to apply for the SAF Student Investment Team.  We have added an online application component to do a trial on streamlining the process.  The application can now be found on the LEARN site under "My SAF Community" look under Assessments to the Survey function and the application document is called "Student Investment Team Application 2013".  We would like you to complete this as well as sending in your documents so that we are sure to have the information that we need to process your application.  The School’s Investment Fund was launched in the spring 2012 term with an initial investment of $50,000. An additional $50,000 was available for investment in the winter 2013 term. To know more about the fund, please visit http://saf.uwaterloo.ca/SAF/SAFInvestmentFund.html. The performance link at the site has the team presentations to the Investment Fund’s Advisory Board.

We invite applications for the Student Investment Team from students in their 3A or higher study terms in the fall 2013 term in the AFM, CFM, Mathematics & CA, and Biotechnology & CA programs. To be eligible to apply, students should have completed Managerial Finance I (AFM 271/AFM 273) or Corporate Finance I (AFM 272).

For more details, please see the attached document here.

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Call for Applications for CFA Institute Awareness Scholarships

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As a participant in the CFA University Recognition Program, the School of Accounting and Finance will be recommending 5 students forCFA Awareness scholarships for the December 2013 and June 2014 CFA Level I exam. These scholarships are awarded by the CFA Institute and are primarily available to undergraduate and graduate students in the School of Accounting and Finance.

On behalf of the School’s CFA Scholarship Committee, I am pleased to announce the process by which we will be recommending the students to receive the CFA Institute Awareness Scholarships for the December 2013 and June 2014 Level 1 exam sitting.  The committee is comprised of Professors Andrew Ecclestone (CFA), Craig Geoffrey (CFA), and Ranjini Jha (CFA).

BENEFITS

For the current exam offering, the CFA Program enrollment fee (if applicable) is waived. Scholarship applicants pay a discounted registration fee that includes the e-book curriculum. Scholarships cannot be deferred to another exam offering. For further information, please refer to the website:

http://www.cfainstitute.org/programs/cfaprogram/register/Documents/awareness_scholarship_rules.pdf.

CRITERIA

To be considered for these scholarships, you must be:

1) A registered undergraduate or graduate student at the University of Waterloo in the School of Accounting and Finance.

2) In your final year of undergraduate studies or in full-time graduate studies.  This is defined as being within 12 months of completion of your degree requirements.

3) Registered to write or will be registering for the December 2013 or June 2014 CFA Level 1 Exam

4) A first time CFA Level 1 exam writer

PROCESS:  Please submit the following documents electronically to Professors Andrew Ecclestone (aecclest@uwaterloo.ca), Craig Geoffrey (cgeoffrey@uwaterloo.ca) and Ranjini Jha (rjha@uwaterloo.ca) by Monday, August 26th, 2013, at 10:00 pm.

1) A current unofficial grades transcript

2) A current resume and

3) The one-page application (accessible from

http://www.cfainstitute.org/Forms/recognized_university_scholarship_dec.pdf     http://www.cfainstitute.org/Forms/recognized_university_scholarship_june.pdf).

Students who are sponsored by the committee for the CFA Scholarships will be notified by Wednesday, August 28, 2013.

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Nspire Innovation Network

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The Nspire Innovation Network is Canada's largest youth-run entrepreneurial organization. They are gearing up for the upcoming term and are looking to fill a few positions in their team. Learn more about the organization at nspire.org. Below are available positions: • Discovery Series Director of Operations: Manage logistics, partnerships, and operations of campus initiatives.

• Discovery Series Director of Marketing: Create outreach campaigns and maintain analytics for ongoing marketing strategies.

• Web Developers: Create and maintain website content. • Graphic Designers: Design and create content for external communications. Detailed descriptions and application forms can found here.

Please email Victoria Chok, VP Operations, at victoria.chok@nspire.org for more information.

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Leaders in Investment Banking Toronto

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We would like to invite all students to a 2-day Investment Banking workshop by Leaders in Investment Banking (http://www.LeadersInIB.com). The Leaders initiative has helped students around the world in breaking into this highly competitive field and is proud to be coming back to where it all started: Toronto! The workshop is FREE to attend (students must meet the reimbursement criteria on the event website), go ahead and click the link below to RSVP today! The event is open to everyone interested in the area, so reserve your spot today. See attached ad for more information. RSVP: http://libtoronto.eventbrite.com

Event: Investment Banking Workshop When: August 31st - September 1st, 2013 Cost: Free! (please see reimbursement criteria on RSVP page) RSVP: http://libtoronto.eventbrite.com More Info: http://www.LeadersInIB.com