Media Release
21st October 2008
AIA president retires after eight years
After eight years at the helm of the Australian Investors Association Ltd (AIA) the reigning
president Robert Andrew announced his retirement at the Association’s recent AGM.
Mr Andrew was a founding member of AIA during the early 1990s along with the first president
and investment author Austin Donnelly and has been heavily involved with the Association and its
activities throughout the past eighteen years.
AIA is dedicated to assisting the individual investor by providing affordable, independent
education and information, and by promoting the common interests of individual investors to
government, regulators and the financial services industry.
Mr Andrew said the AIA is committed to protecting and promoting investor interests as well as
educating individual investors, which is of particular benefit given the current volatile economic
environment.
“Our members join the Association as they want to learn more about investing, to share their
experiences with others or ensure the individual investor gets a fair go” Mr Andrew said.
Mr Andrew expressed his thanks to all AIA members for their support during his time with the
Association, especially those who have served on the AIA Council with him over the years.
Incoming President Jolyon Forsyth expressed his gratitude to Mr Andrew for his devotion to the
association and its members.
“Bob will be sorely missed and on behalf of the AIA I would like to thank him for his tireless efforts
and continual dedication to the association” Mr Forsyth said.
Mr Forsyth said, in moving forward, the AIA would continue to look at innovative ways of
educating investors at all levels to ensure its members were well educated and prepared for any
economic fallout from the international economic situation.
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For further information please contact:
Jolyon Forsyth
Australian Investors Association Ltd
(P) 4942 5765
(F) 3257 3932
(E) aia@investors.asn.au
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