The Financial Mathematics Team Challenge (FMTC) is always a highlight of the academic calendar, but more significantly, 2025 was the 10th iteration!

In our latest Q&A, we chat to AIFMRM’s most recent appointment, Dr Coetzee Marais, about how and why he joined the Institute, and where he hopes he and AIFMRM will go in the future.

At AIFMRM, Freddy Dipudi has flourished with the seminars that bridge academia and industry, the Financial Mathematics Team Challenge, and the ways the staff have helped him achieve personal growth during his MFE and PhD.

Originally from Morocco, Dr Moutanabbir has studied and worked in Canada, taught in Egypt, as well as in Johannesburg in South Africa. But from the moment he joined AIFMRM, he recognised there was something different about the Institute.