Malaysian actuarial science student makes history

KUALA LUMPUR: UCSI Univer­si­ty’s James Koo (pic) beat the odds when he became the first Malaysian to obtain the Associate of Cana­dian Institute of Actuaries (ACIA).

The third-year actuarial science student is also the first undergraduate from one of the top private universities to have passed the Society of Actuaries’ Fundamentals of Actuarial Practice (FAP).