Investment Executive senior reporter Jade Hemeon has been awarded second prize by the Portfolio Management Association of Canada (PMAC), which announced the winners of the 2015 PMAC Award for Excellence in Investment Journalism on Tuesday.
Hemeon won for two of her articles, “The decade of the exchange-traded fund” and “Making sense of the market” in Investment Executive’s ETF Guide 2014 (May 2014).
For the first time since the launch of the PMAC Award in 2012, the top award is going to a previous winner, while another financial journalist is being recognized for the third time.
Bryan Borzykowski is this year’s first prize winner for his article, “Are your Investments at Risk?” in the December 2014 edition of MoneySense. Borzykowski received first prize last year for Canadian Business Investor’s Guide 2014.
At the same time, David Aston becomes the first journalist to receive recognition in three competitions: Aston received an honourable mention this year, second prize last year and an honourable mention in the inaugural year.
The 2015 third prize winner is Craig Sebastiano, for “Jet-lagged” in Benefits Canada (April 2014).
PMAC hosts the annual competition to acknowledge journalistic excellence that fosters better understanding of the investment industry and improves Canadians’ financial literacy.
The first prize winner in the competition receives $5,000; second prize, $3,000 and third prize, $2,000.
The presentation of the prizes will be held at PMAC’s CEO Dinner on June 10 in Toronto.