Universities financial trading centers

[Corso482]

Quote from NihabaAshi:



I don't know about those "student run funds" on CNBC or student investment clubs that are interveiwed by CNBC...

but the Universities I mentioned were about "student run trading centers".

Not investment funds or investment clubs.

In fact...I think most universities in North America have those "investment" groups.

I was under ther impression that the thread was about trading groups.

NihabaAshi

I am talking about trading centers also. Most of these trading centers are used to run a student-run fund of some kind, using capital from donors. Although I'm sure they use the trading center for other purposes as well. And then there's little student investment clubs, which in some cases may overlap with the trading center. You know, on second thought, I probably don't know what I'm talking about...But I know University of Texas has a student run mutual fund composed of donor capital. How much that has to do with the trading center is beyond me.

 

[0008]

Yes. I just want to know about the quality of the courses that go with a trading room, not the student investment funds. But the later is also an interesting topic. I read the performance of the fund that run by the students at Cornell. It seems they are running an index fund. Their results always run closely to the SP500 index. I think I don't need to go to Cornell, just buy the SPY and hope!

 

[Copernicus]

hofstra univ
brand new state of the art

 

[sammy12]

University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. They combine both fundamentals and trading Ideas to manage Student run fund. There results are impressive.

http://www.bus.umich.edu/FacultyResearch/ResearchCenters/Centers/Tozzi/

http://webuser.bus.umich.edu/tradingfloor/earningstorpedo/default.htm

 

[stockwrangler]

Quote from 0008:

There are some colleges that have a trading room for the students to learn the market with real world data.....

Well, what do we have here...? Check out this small college for some ideas:

Bentley College - "a business university" in Waltham, MA, 10 miles west of Boston. No lecture halls, 13 to 1 prof to student ratio, etc.

The college offers a "state-of-the-art" tradng room (keep clicking to get there) among its Specialty Learning Labs for both undergraduate and (see) McCallum Graduate School of Business programs.

Bentley College in the U.S. universities rating game (see LATESTBulletin in middle of page).

 

[stockwrangler]

Oops, ....a 13 to 1 student to prof ratio.........still quite good!...