19 June 2015

Big congratulations to the latest MAFC prize winners who were awarded their prizes at the recent Annual Alumni and Prize Winners’ Cocktail Reception, held on 11 June at the Museum of Sydney.

The night was a chance for the prize winners to celebrate their success as well as for MAFC alumni to catch up and network.

The event also featured guest speaker and MAFC Honorary Fellow, Simon Schwarz. As the recently appointed COO of SocietyOne, Simon spoke to the audience on “Innovation in finance: Building on the fundamentals. Lessons in the rise of peer-to-peer lending”. Simon will be presenting at an upcoming Finance Professionals Seminar in July.

Also presenting at the event was MAFC Director, Professor Kevin Jameson and Professor David Wilkinson, who presented the Proficiency Awards.

Outstanding MAFC student and overall prize winner, Dylan Rands also spoke to the audience and shared his experience at MAFC, how his studies are helping him in his finance career and the importance of graduate education for specialisation, career development, technical skill and foundation.

Dylan was awarded the following prizes:

• New South Wales Treasury Corporation Prize for Best Overall Performance in the Sydney Class
• Macquarie University Applied Finance Prize for Proficiency in the unit ‘Investment and Credit Analysis’
• Macquarie University Applied Finance Prize for Proficiency in the unit ‘Economics of Financial Markets’
• Macquarie University Applied Finance Prize for Proficiency in the unit ‘Equity Capital Markets’

Read more about Dylan and what he learned from studying at MAFC.

Congratulations to all of the Sydney prize winners:

• Tharindu Senarathna, awarded the Acadian Asset Management Prize for Sydney and KPMG Prize in Risk Management
• Xiaoshu Chen, awarded the Corality Financial Group Prize for Academic Excellence in Corporate Finance (full-time), the Corality Financial Group Prize for Academic Excellence in Mergers & Acquisitions and the Macquarie University Applied Finance Prize for Proficiency in the unit Mergers & Acquisitions
• Chi Ki Lee, awarded the Corality Financial Group Prize for Academic Excellence in Corporate Finance (part-time)
• Patrick Caruso, awarded the Corality Financial Group Prize for Academic Excellence in Infrastructure and Property
• Sven Stubican, awarded the Corality Financial Group Prize for Academic Excellence in Project Finance
• Hieu Doan, awarded the Finsia Prize for Applied Finance
• Quoc Thang, awarded the RMA Australian Prize in Risk Management
• Hamsih Marshall, awarded the Macquarie University Applied Finance Staff Prize for Excellence
• Samuel Amora, awarded the Macquarie University Applied Finance Prizes for Proficiency in the units ‘Financial Instruments’ and ‘Ethical Risk in Finance’
• Alexandra Ayscough, awarded the Macquarie University Applied Finance Prizes for Proficiency in the units ‘Corporate Treasury Management’ and ‘Equity Capital Markets’
• Christopher Buckley, awarded the Macquarie University Applied Finance Prize for Proficiency in the unit ‘ Resources Industry Investment Analysis’
• Chi Wai Cheung, awarded the Macquarie University Applied Finance Prize for Proficiency in the unit ‘Derivatives Values’
• Catherine Dawson, awarded the Macquarie University Applied Finance Prize for Proficiency in the unit ‘Balance Sheet Management’
• Indrajit Ghosh, awarded the Macquarie University Applied Finance Prize for Proficiency in the unit ‘Exotic Options’
• Evan Goodridge, awarded the Macquarie University Applied Finance Prize for Proficiency in the unit ‘ Credit and Lending Decisions’
• Gary Greene, awarded the Macquarie University Applied Finance Prize for Proficiency in the unit ‘Private Equity Investment’
• Michael Harrison, awarded the Macquarie University Applied Finance Prize for Proficiency in the unit ‘Risk and Portfolio Construction’
• Cheng Chieh, awarded the Macquarie University Applied Finance Prizes for Proficiency in the units ‘Credit Portfolio Management’ and ‘Modelling Market Risk’
• Chen Lu, awarded the Macquarie University Applied Finance Prize for Proficiency in the unit ‘Credit Portfolio Management’
• Joshua O’Brien, awarded the Macquarie University Applied Finance Prize for Proficiency in the unit ‘Modelling Market Risk’
• Marcus Ochmann, awarded the Macquarie University Applied Finance Prize for Proficiency in the unit ‘Legal Risk in Finance’
• Matthew Rados, awarded the Macquarie University Applied Finance Prize for Proficiency in the unit ‘Investments’
• Christopher Rands, awarded the Macquarie University Applied Finance Prizes for Proficiency in the units ‘Applied Portfolio Management’, ‘Balance Sheet Management’ and ‘Economics and Financial Markets’
• Mingzhou Shen, awarded the Macquarie University Applied Finance Prize for Proficiency in the unit ‘Interest Rate Portfolio Management’
• Dael Short, awarded the Macquarie University Applied Finance Prize for Proficiency in the unit ‘Private Wealth Management’
• Benjamin Sloman, awarded the Macquarie University Applied Finance Prizes for Proficiency in the units ‘Private Wealth Management’ and ‘Advanced Valuation for Corporate Finance’
• Richard Tearsdale, awarded the Macquarie University Applied Finance Prize for Proficiency in the unit ‘Applied Business Valuation’
• Jonathon Tidswell, awarded the Macquarie University Applied Finance Prize for Proficiency in the unit ‘Credit Portfolio Management’

See pictures from the event on our Facebook page.

At MAFC, we believe it is important to acknowledge and reward outstanding achievements. We’d like to extend our appreciation and thanks to the corporate sponsors who helped us to achieve this goal.

Thank you to our sponsors:

• Michael Malone, Honorary Fellow
• Acadian Asset Management
• Finsia
• KPMG
• RMA Australia
• NSW Treasury Corporation