United Nations Joint Staff Pension Fund Supports Employees’ Professional Development by Offering Suite of CFA Institute Certificates
CFA Institute, the global association of investment professionals, announces today that the United Nations Joint Staff Pension Fund (UNJSPF) will offer several certificates from CFA Institute to its employees. More than 50 of the firm’s staff members will pursue the Certificate in ESG Investing, the Investment Foundations Certificate, and Data Science for Investment Professionals Certificate.
“We are thrilled that the UNJSPF has chosen to expand the suite of CFA Institute professional learning courses available to their staff, continuing the successful relationship that we’ve established,” said Margaret Franklin, CFA, President and CEO, CFA Institute. “In offering these three courses to their employees, the UNJSPF has demonstrated its commitment to the betterment of its workforce, ensuring staff are abreast of the ever-evolving investment industry landscape. We applaud them for their dedication to learning and enhancement for staff members.”
Bill Wilkinson, Chief Operating Officer of UNJSPF, commented: “Through our collaboration with CFA Institute, we’ve created concrete learning opportunities for our staff that are connected to our business and help us to address fundamental, focused, and specialized learning areas, such as sustainable investing. We are commitment to offering these opportunities that our staff find so valuable, ultimately for career and personal development, and for the benefit of our beneficiaries.”
The Certificates that the employees will be pursuing include:
- The Certificate in ESG Investing offers learners both practical application and technical knowledge in the fast-growing field of ESG investing. It aims to strengthen market integrity by delivering the benchmark knowledge and skills required by investment professionals to integrate environmental, social and governance factors into the investment process.
- The Investment Foundations Certificate provides a comprehensive, foundational overview of the investment industry and its structure, function, and role in global capital markets and society. Participants will learn real, tangible knowledge of the fundamentals of the industry and receive a framework to better understand, solve and communicate solutions for complex issues.
- The Data Science for Investment Professionals Certificate is designed to provide current or aspiring investment professionals with practical knowledge of the fundamentals of artificial intelligence and machine learning techniques and how they are used in the investment process.
The employees that will participate in the professional learning programs span the Investments, Risk, Compliance, Operations, and Information Technology teams.
For more information about the CFA Institute Professional Learning offerings, please visit our website.
About UNJSPF
The United Nations Joint Staff Pension Fund was established in 1949, by a resolution of the General Assembly of the United Nations, to provide retirement, death, disability and related benefits for staff upon cessation of their services with the United Nations, under Regulations that, since then, have been amended at various times.
As an independent inter-agency entity, the Fund operates under its own Regulations as approved by the General Assembly and, in accordance with its governance structure, is administered by the United Nations Joint Staff Pension Board, which currently consists of 33 members, representing the 25 UNJSPF member organizations.
The Fund has offices in New York (United States) and Geneva (Switzerland) and two liaison offices, one in Nairobi (Kenya) and one in Bangkok (Thailand).
The Office of Investment Management is responsible for managing the assets of the UNJSPF.
The Fund’s investments are diversified across several and various asset classes in approximately 100 different countries. The UNJSPF’s total fund market valuation currently stands at approximately USD 87 billion.