Acadient to Power Online Training Center for NICSA Introducing eLearning Program for Fund Industry Professionals.Business/Technology/Education Editors BOSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 31, 2001 Acadient, a Boston- based eLearning company, announced an agreement with The National Investment Companies Services Association (NICSA NICSA National Investment Company Service Association ) today to develop eLearning programs for financial industry professionals. Acadient will be developing online courses based on NICSA's book, "A Purely American Invention: The U.S. Open-End Mutual Fund Industry" by Lee Gremillion. Like the book, the interactive courses available through the new NICSA Online Training Center seek to help financial industry professionals, students and investors gain an understanding of both the breadth of mutual fund operations and the context in which they are performed. The author of the material, Lee Gremillion, is a partner with PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP LLP - Lower Layer Protocol , where he leads the Investment Management and Securities Operations consulting group in the Midwest. His practice focuses on operations and systems within investment industry organizations such as mutual funds, insurance companies, investment managers, pension administrators, and banks. He earned a doctoral degree from the Harvard Business School Harvard Business School, officially named the Harvard Business School: George F. Baker Foundation, and also known as HBS, is one of the graduate schools of Harvard University. , and has been a professor of Management Information Systems at Indiana University Indiana University, main campus at Bloomington; state supported; coeducational; chartered 1820 as a seminary, opened 1824. It became a college in 1828 and a university in 1838. The medical center (run jointly with Purdue Univ. and Boston University Boston University, at Boston, Mass.; coeducational; founded 1839, chartered 1869, first baccalaureate granted 1871. It is composed of 16 schools and colleges. . "Acadient is uniquely qualified to develop NICSA's Online Training Center. Many of Acadient's employees are financial services The examples and perspective in this article or section may not represent a worldwide view of the subject. Please [ improve this article] or discuss the issue on the talk page. industry veterans. They understand the content better than anyone because, unlike a lot of other eLearning companies, they've actually worked in the industry," said Bob Goldberg, President of NICSA. "We're excited to be working with NICSA. Now, NICSA member company employees can benefit from anytime, anywhere learning, and the companies can benefit from reduced travel costs and time away from the office," said Greg Titus, President of Acadient. About Acadient Based in historic Boston, Massachusetts “Boston” redirects here. For other uses, see Boston (disambiguation). Boston is the capital and most populous city of Massachusetts.[3] The largest city in New England, Boston is considered the unofficial economic and cultural center of the entire New , the hub of education with over 80 Colleges and Universities, Acadient Inc. (www.acadient.com) develops, hosts, and manages eLearning courseware and private-label online universities for financial services companies and industry organizations. The company's team of technology and instructional design Instructional design is the practice of arranging media (communication technology) and content to help learners and teachers transfer knowledge most effectively. The process consists broadly of determining the current state of learner understanding, defining the end goal of experts provide customers with tools and support to deliver customized courseware and manage the online, offline, wireless and e-commerce components for personalized e-learning solutions. About NICSA For over 39 years, The National Investment Company Service Association (NICSA) has provided leadership and innovation in educational programming and information exchange within the operations sector of the mutual fund industry worldwide. Located in the greater Boston area in Wellesley Hills, Massachusetts, USA, NICSA was established in 1962 as an informal forum for operations and shareholder servicing professionals in the mutual fund industry. NICSA membership totals more than 400 companies operating in major financial centers in the United States and Europe. The membership represents all segments of the mutual fund industry in a dozen countries and 27 states within the continental United States United States territory, including the adjacent territorial waters, located within North America between Canada and Mexico. Also called CONUS. , and includes mutual fund complexes, investment management companies, custodian banks, transfer agents and independent providers of specialized products and services. |
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