Beedie students present award-winning SIAS Fund at the Metropolitan Hotel
May 26, 2011
The Beedie School of Business’s Student Investment Advisory Service (SIAS) fund, Canada’s largest student-run fund, is hosting a public showcase highlighting SIAS’s first quarter performance, as well as the fund’s current economic and market outlook.
The fund’s performance review will be held on Friday, May 27, 2011 at 3:00 PM at the Metropolitan Hotel in Vancouver. The SIAS presentation will be followed by a keynote address from one of the recently named Top 100 Most Powerful Women in Canada, and a wine and cheese reception.
The SIAS Fund is Canada’s largest student-run investment fund, and is one of the largest such funds in North America. Fully managed by student volunteers of the Master of Financial Risk Management program at the Beedie School of Business, the fund has an impressive annual return of 9.9% and has seen astounding growth from $7 million to the current market-value of $10.8 million in the last seven years.
The SIAS Fund’s First Quarter Performance review will include a keynote address from the President and CEO of Kinsale Private Wealth- Margaret Franklin. Ms. Franklin is also the Chair of the board of governors of the global CFA Institute, is a past president of the Toronto CFA Society, and is a CFA charterholder. Ms. Franklin was recently named as one of Canada’s Most Poswerful Women Top 100.
The wine and cheese reception will also include guests from RBC, Orbis mutual Fund, HSBC, BMO, PI Financial, TD Bank Financial Group.
The SIAS fund has recently earned an impressive second place finish in the balanced fund division at the student investment fund competition in Dayton, Ohio. The prestigious competition was a component of the world’s largest student investment conference, R.I.S.E XI, which drew over 40 different student-run investment portfolios from North America.
The SFU SIAS fund wishes to cordially invite you to attend its 2011 Q1 performance review presentation. The event RSVP and more information can be found online at: http://www.beedie.sfu.ca/sias/Q1-2001_invite.php.