The following is an excerpt from the full article published in The Globe and Mail on February 13, 2014. BY JENNIFER LEWINGTON, GLOBE AND MAIL At some Canadian business schools, students learn to manage other people’s money long before landing their first job. They do so through a student-run investment fund, fast becoming a staple of business schools in either for-credit courses or extracurricular activities. Increasingly, these funds use real money (from donors), giving students […]
A group of undergraduate students at the Beedie School of Business have been immersed in the finance world recently, starting with a trip to Toronto to view the city’s finance sector first-hand, and ending with their third quarter presentation as managers of the Beedie Endowment Asset Management fund. The Beedie Endowment Asset Management (BEAM) fund was established in 2011 and is the largest undergraduate-run investment fund in Canada, with $5 million invested in Canadian equities, […]
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