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 Northern Ireland’s first society for Actuaries, The Society of Northern Ireland Actuaries (SONIA), was launched last night at Queen's University Belfast’s Management School by Enterprise Minister Arlene Foster.
SONIA will be a society for actuarial professionals along with those students undertaking the Queen's University Management School's (QUMS) Actuarial Science and Risk Management degree.
Speaking about the motivation for SONIA, Colin O’Hare, President of the Society and Programme Director for the actuarial science degree at Queen's, said: "The idea of establishing a society that includes professional actuaries and undergraduate students as its core membership has never been tried before in the United Kingdom. |
 Northern Ireland’s first ever financial trading room is set to open at Queen’s University Belfast. The First Derivatives Trading Room, supported by Invest NI, will provide a dynamic learning environment for students hoping to embark in a career in financial services or technology.
Based at Queen’s University Management School, Riddel Hall, Stranmillis, the facility, which will replicate New York and London trading rooms, will give students a real-life experience of a busy stock exchange with the capacity to deal in equities, bonds, foreign exchange and derivative instruments. |
The Almac Board is delighted to announce the appointment of Kevin Stephens to the executive position of Finance Director, Almac Group, with effect from 1 January 2012.
Kevin will take responsibility for all financial aspects of Almac Group activities globally, leading the financial management teams for all global operations, supporting the planned growth of the business and co-ordinating financial control and reporting throughout the Group.
After graduating from Queen’s University, Belfast, with a degree in Economics, Kevin qualified as a Chartered Accountant with Ernst & Young and then worked for 14 years with Kemira NI as Financial Controller. |
After 40 years of successful book publishing Blackstaff Press will mark its special birthday in a style that shows just how much the publishing industry has changed over the last 40 years – with the launch of an eBook list.
This digital list will initially include 3 new titles and 11 of the most important titles from its significant and successful backlist, including Sam Hanna Bell's December Bride and John Richardson's Dream On.
The digital books will be available to download to eReader devises including Kindle, iPad, iPod Touch, iPhone, Sony Reader, PC, Mac and Android Phones – we are making our books available to meet the new way that people will be reading. |
 Lurgan-based, Lumen Financial Planning Ltd, is one of the first firms in Northern Ireland to be approved by The Institute of Financial Planning (IFP) as an Accredited Financial Planning FirmTM.
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October 04, 2011 |  |
 Aurion Learning has been working closely with Action for Children’s Learning and Development Team to produce a suite of e-learning programmes.
Designed to support Action for Children employees and volunteers develop new skills and competencies, the four e-learning programmes focus on Behaviour Support, Safeguarding, E-Finance and Learning & Development.
Ian Millar, Deputy Director of Human Resources for Action for Children said:
“Our Safeguarding emodule provides staff who are new to Action for Children with foundation knowledge about recognising, reporting, referring and recording instances of abuse and neglect of children. |
March 08, 2011 |  |
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William McKiernan, founder and executive chairman of CyberSource Corp., was honored at Stanford University Friday night for his contributions to innovation and technology in Ireland.
The award was given by the Irish Technology Leadership Group (ITLG). |
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