In June 2001, WSU Regents approved the recommendation that WSU finance students be allowed to "invest" $1,000,000 of the University's Contributed Funds Quasi Endowment Fund. Specifically, students participating in the program make recommendations to the University's Senior Investment Manager. The fund objective is to outperform S&P 500 while maintaining comparable risk.
The initial investment is WSU funds. Students in a two-semester portfolio management course work in small groups to recommend stocks from ten industrial sectors. The students usually conduct research in the state-of-the-art trading room, which was made possible by the generosity of MBA alumnus and financier Gary Brinson.
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