The Asia Pacific Association for Fiduciary Studies

The Asia Pacific Association for Fiduciary Studies is the brainchild of some forward thinking individuals who envisioned an regional coalition that provided support to individuals and organizations willing to assume the responsibility of managing trust funds. Today, our mission remains clear, yet the stakes have grown. Just as national security has taken on a new and ever widening definition, our role as trustee and fiduciary has also evolved from "Managers of trust" to "Guardians of Trusts"; and, although the distinction may look semantic, the ramifications are profound. In our world today, effective corporate governance involves more than setting sound operational policies or mandating the highest return possible from our investment managers. Today, effective corporate governance also means establishing and ensuring all individuals doing business with our respective organizations share a common compliance to a Code of Ethics and Responsibility. As "Guardians of Trusts", we need to ensure that we secure the assets we are entrusted to protect with the same intensity we would secure our personal assets. The Asia Pacific Association for Fiduciary Studies is the regional resource to help achieve this goal. The Asia Pacific Association for Fiduciary Studies links training with regional understanding. Our Association exists to provide educational forums with the uniqueness of being regionally focused. Bringing Wall St. to Micronesia means that we provide our members with seminars that describe the most current and fundamental understanding of our roles as fiduciaries. It means providing our members with relevant tools necessary to measure the performance of our investment managers, consultants and service providers. It means that we serve as a regional resource for "Best Practices" and industry developments, and finally, it means providing these forums while recognizing and appreciating the richness of the cultures and practices that are uniquely Micronesia. Few organizations possess the level of regional ...