TORONTO, Oct. 2, 2013 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- CFA Society Toronto will announce the recipients of CFA Society Toronto's Inaugural Press Award at an award reception and Media Contact Directory launch.
Event tickets are available by request, space is limited.
| When: | Thursday, October 10, 2013 |
| 5 pm - 7 pm (cocktail reception) | |
| Where: | CFA Society Toronto |
| 120 Adelaide Street W., Suite 701 | |
| Toronto, ON |
CFA Society Toronto has created a new set of journalist awards, based on the model set forward by CFA Society UK. This award recognizes the contributions of different Ontario and Canadian based publications and journalists towards the advancement of investor education, best practice and the promotion of ethics and high professional standards within the financial community. These endeavours are in exact alignment with CFA Society Toronto's mission and objectives of promoting the highest level of ethics and professionalism within the financial industry.
This award identifies and rewards publications and journalists whose work helps consumers and those serving consumers gain a better understanding of the investment profession. Submissions by the selected finalists were graded by a judging committee using a strict selection of criteria that supported the awards objectives listed above.
Competing publications submitted three articles from the past 12 months that they felt best demonstrated their commitment to investor education, ethics and high professional standards. All identifying traits of the publication and author were removed and submitted for evaluation by a volunteer judging committee. After the initial grading the publication with the highest combined score for their three submissions was deemed the winner of publication of the year.
Finalists for the publication of the year are: Advisor's Edge, Investment Executive and MoneySense Magazine.
Journalists who penned the top three scoring articles were added to the shortlist as finalists for the Journalist of the Year Award and asked to submit three articles they felt best demonstrated their commitment to investor education, best practice, ethics and high professional standards.
Finalists for Journalist of the Year
David Aston, MoneySense Magazine
David Aston has written about personal finance, investments and retirement for six years. He writes on a freelance basis mainly for MoneySense Magazine, where he is Contributing Editor, and also for the Globe and Mail Report on Business. His "second career" in financial journalism follows 20 years in management consulting and financial roles in the corporate world. He is a CFA charterholder and a Certified Management Accountant. He has an MBA from what is now the Richard Ivey School of Business, WesternUniversity, as well as an MA and BA in Economics from the University of Toronto.
Dan Bortolotti, MoneySense Magazine
Dan Bortolotti has worked as a magazine editor and writer for more than 20 years and is currently editor-at-large at MoneySense. His work has earned five National Magazine Award nominations since 2010. Dan is also the author of nine books of non-fiction on subjects as diverse as astronomy, wildlife conservation, baseball and humanitarian aid. He has specialized in writing about personal finance since 2008, and two years later he created Canadian Couch Potato, which was selected by The Globe and Mail as Canada's best investing blog. Dan recently partnered with PWL Capital in Toronto to offer advice to do-it-yourself investors.
Suzanne Sharma, Advisor's Edge
Suzanne Sharma is associate editor of Advisor Group, which is a resource for Canadian financial advisors and part of Rogers Publishing Ltd. Before joining the team, Suzanne was associate editor of Advisor Group's sister publications, Canadian Insurance Top Broker and Corporate Risk Canada. She graduated from SheridanCollege's Print Journalism program in 2005. Suzanne has a background in business journalism, and has created editorial content for national magazines, websites and newspapers.
Sara Pacella
CFA Society Toronto
Phone: (416) 366-5755 X 235
E-mail: media@cfatoronto.ca
About CFA Society Toronto
CFA Society Toronto supports the professional and business development of more than 8,000 CFA charterholders in Toronto, making it the second largest CFA Society in the world. It provides members with a local perspective on a global designation, including: educational programs, sponsored events, job postings, quarterly newsletters, a comprehensive affinity program and networking opportunities. A not-for-profit organization, CFA Society Toronto is affiliated with CFA Institute, the global body that administers the Chartered Financial Analyst curriculum and sets voluntary, ethics-based performance-reporting standards for the investment industry. CFA Society Toronto's members are leaders in ethics in the financial community. For more information, please refer to www.cfatoronto.ca.