Extracurricular Value
Practical Investment and Risk Management Experience
Students have a unique opportunity to acquire real world investment, risk management and compliance experience through the Student Investment Advisory Service (SIAS). Students manage a $9 million endowment portfolio, funded by generous contributions from the Lohn Foundation and HSBC Bank Canada. Senior representatives from the fi nancial sector mentor students in their SIAS activities.
Visiting Industry Professionals
Guest speakers from financial institutions around the globe share their knowledge and stimulate interest in a wide variety of topics for research projects. We encourage visitors to work with promising candidates on research projects. Successful research cooperation often leads to an o ffer of employment.
Visitors to the MFRM program include:
- Alliance Bernstein, New York
- Bank of America / Merrill Lynch, New York
- Bank of Montreal Financial Group, Toronto
- Deutsche Bank, New York
- FINCAD, Vancouver
- KPMG, Vancouver
- QuIC, Vancouver
- Royal Bank of Scotland Securities, Greenwich
- SGS Asset Management, Toronto
- Standard Chartered Bank, Singapore
- Swiss Re, New York
- ZE PowerGroup Inc., Vancouver
Find Out More:
At-a-Glance
Full-time
12 months
Cost: $27,000*
*Subject to senate approval.
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