A former learner of Vredenburg High has done his old school proud; he graduated last year with a master’s degree in finance.
After matriculating in 2012, Nortimer Barry from Saldanha looked forward to the new academic phase in his life.
Embarking on BCom General degree study the following year at the University of the Western Cape, which also entailed completing bridging courses, amounted to a rather fitful start, with things not exactly going his way, and he left it.
But Barry eventually resumed it and majored in investment management and finance, getting his BCom General in 2017. “It was an immediate love and I knew I had found my place,” he said.
Barry went on to complete his honours in finance in 2018. But the hunger to study further, and the doors it could possibly open, endured and further study beckoned. He enrolled in the finance master’s programme at the University of Cape Town.
The junior investment specialist at PSG Wealth encourages go-getters. “There are no short cuts to anything worth pursuing,” he says. “Approach your goals with consistency and you are well on your way to achieving them.”
