ATLANTA, GA, September 20, 2004—LOMA’s 2004 Top Students stood tall and proud during this year’s LOMA Annual Conference and Conferment in historic Boston. The celebration at this annual event culminates in an award ceremony and banquet on September 21, with awards presented by LOMA’s president and CEO, Thomas P. Donaldson, FLMI, CLU. More than 800 conference attendees, including new designees and LOMA’s Board of Directors, were present to cheer on the winners.

"LOMA’s students are among the best and brightest in the insurance and financial services industry," said William H. Rabel, Ph.D., FLMI, CLU, senior vice president of LOMA’s Education & Training Division. "The future of our industry depends on knowledgeable professionals like our Top Students, who demonstrate both an ongoing commitment to continuing professional education and the ability to compete intellectually among thousands of students.”

Each year more than 50,000 professionals take LOMA examinations and more than 7,500 students earn LOMA’s prestigious professional designations. The 2004 Top Students in the Americas region earned the highest grade point averages out of all the students earning their particular designation in the 2003 calendar year in North and South America .

LOMA has awarded more than 150,000 professional designations in 12 professional designation programs within the financial services industry, including more than 75,000 FLMI and almost 60,000 ACS designations. With award winning education programs now translated into Bahasa Indonesia, French, Portuguese, Spanish, Traditional and Simplified Chinese and Korean, LOMA offers more opportunities than ever before for professional education and continued employee development.

For a complete list of this year’s winners, click here.  

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