An AIFMRM team in 2020 again won the fifth annual FNB Securities Challenge. The MCom students competed head-to-head with Wits and Stellenbosch teams in a trading simulation using a live FNB Securities trading simulator. They had a hypothetical US$100 000 in real-time foreign exchange and global stock markets, with the goal of achieving the highest return over three months.

AIFMRM acted swiftly in response to the outbreak of COVID-19 and the subsequent lockdowns of sectors of the economy at the end of March 2020. Across the board, feedback from students showed that they were surprised and impressed by how they were able to continue studying in 2020.