Allan Gray hosted an Academic Achievement Awards Function at the University of Pretoria to award academic excellence in the Faculty of Economic and Management Sciences and to interact with the top academic achievers.
 

The students who participated were asked to submit essays on two topics, and the winners in the three categories were awarded cash prizes. Nicci Short achieved second place in the Allan Gray Academic Achievement Awards for Fourth-Year Students. Kelvin Mocke from the Department of Business Management and Ms Van der Merwe from the Communication Management Division were also part of the top 100 achievers. 

Six Allan Gray management representatives from the Cape Town office and five from the Johannesburg office attended the function. This was the first initiative of its kind from the company and was instigated by the excellent alumni of UP’s Faculty of Economic and Management Sciences that they have employed over the last couple of years. They have similar awards for students from NMMU, Rhodes, and the University of the Free State. From now on the University of Pretoria will also be included.