Newsletter n°70
NEWSLETTER AMFIE
FINANCIAL COOPERATIVE ASSOCIATION OF INTERNATIONAL CIVIL SERVANTS
N° 70 / SEPTEMBER 2018
Dear colleagues, friends and family
I am glad to share with you some news after a busy past few months for your devoted team and board.
Our Strategy Committee encouraged us to go a step further in the support we wish to give our members through knowledge sharing and education: we responded by creating AMFIE Academy and organising lectures on specific subjects, such as finance, economics or fiscal
issues, in partnership with other organisations. AMFIE hosted its first conference in August at the Vienna Stock Exchange.
Coordinators' meeting
A meeting with coordinators was held the day prior to the Annual general meeting. We reviewed the highlights of the past year and studied how the services proposed could be enhanced. Thanks to all participants
Purchase and Sale of ordinary shares
AMFIE is organising a sale of ordinary shares between its members. You can buy or sell ordinary shares for a price of EUR 96.33 per share.
All detailed information regarding this event is available in the document “Purchase and Sale of Ordinary shares” to be downloaded in the member area of our website www.amfie.org (Login the member Area and the document is available in the section “My meetings with AMFIE” https://www.amfie.org/en/purchase-and-sale-ordinary-shares).
If you are interested, we invite you to send us your request either using the reply coupon attached to the document or through your amfie.net access.
New coordinators
Mr. Pierre Gascou formerly a member of AMFIE’s Board is now lending a hand to the team of coordinators in Geneva.
Mr. Francesco Ranalletta is a new coordinator at IFAD, Rome.
Mrs. Saikwan Thoedkiatisak, is our new coordinator for Bangkok.
Saikwan at the coordinators’ meeting with Alexandra Roger Perin (Office in Luxembourg), Rita Umeh Okoyeocha (AfDB) and Thomas Juettemann (EMBL)
Acknowledgement
In The Hague, Anne Bronner (International Court of Justice) and Nicolas Karayannis (Eurojust) are withdrawing for personal reasons and members or prospects can ask their Staff Committee for certification of their document. We extend our best wishes to Anne and thank her for more than ten years of support as coordinator at the Court and Nicolas for eight years at Eurojust.
We wish Melodie Karlson, who lent her support to AMFIE for five years while working at the WHO in Copenhagen, a wonderful retirement.
The following persons, who were already retired, also supported us for many years, Mr. Dominique Bertaud, Mrs. Nina Kojevnikov, Mrs. Jacqueline Lejeune, Mr. Patrick Hardouin and Mrs. Monica Seits, and we thank them warmly.
Building a diversified portfolio
Diversification is an important means of reducing risk and volatility in an investment portfolio, however few people diversify properly. Instead of simply searching for individual investments, we suggest that you take a broader view and focus on designing your portfolio in a structured manner.
From the beginning, your investment strategy will determine the structure of your portfolio, which will, in turn, form the basis for ensuring
portfolio diversification...
AMFIE's team is mobilised in the fight against breast cancer
On 17 June, AMFIE’s team in Luxembourg took part in a pink march. Congratulations to all for your commitment!
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