Mr Frans Lombard (Senior Manager: Distribution Support at PPS) emphasised the company’s involvement with the University of Pretoria. He further mentioned that they sponsor prizes at the Faculty’s annual Top Achievers function. “PPS is the largest multidisciplinary group of graduate professionals in the world with more than 210 000 professional members and the only mutual financial services company in South Africa that has focused exclusively on graduate professionals for longer than 71 years.”

Prof Stephanie Burton (Vice-Principal: Research and Postgraduate Studies) also added that partnerships like this would further assist the University to deliver the best graduates in financial forecasting and mathematics.