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Beedie MSc Finance students take top prize at RISE investment portfolio competition

Apr 12, 2013

For the second consecutive year, MSc in Finance students from Simon Fraser University’s Beedie School of Business have won a major award at the prestigious RISE (Redefining Investment Strategy Education) investment competition hosted at the University of Dayton in Ohio – the world’s largest competition of its kind. The Beedie students won first place in the Balanced Investment Style category for their work on the Student Investment Advisory Service (SIAS) fund, the student-run investment fund […]

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Beedie school creates new finance degree designation

Mar 6, 2012

Contact: Andrey Pavlov, 778.782.5835; 778.782.7922; apavlov@sfu.ca Derek Moscato, 778.782.5038; drmoscat@sfu.ca The graduate finance degree at Simon Fraser University’s Beedie School of Business has a new designation – Master of Science in Finance. The change reflects the evolution of SFU’s popular graduate finance program, which attracts students from around the world. Two years ago, faculty members and industry professionals redesigned what was then the Master of Financial Risk Management program – expanding the offering of core quantitative courses. In addition, […]

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SFU announces MSc Finance designation for graduate finance degree

Feb 6, 2012

The Beedie School of Business at Simon Fraser University is pleased to announce that its graduate finance degree has a new designation: MSc Finance. The change reflects the evolution of Simon Fraser University’s popular graduate finance program, which attracts students from around the world. Two years ago, faculty members and industry professionals redesigned what was then the Master of Financial Risk Management program – expanding the offering of core quantitative courses. In addition, the new MSc designation better reflects the two fields of specialization, risk management and investment management.

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SFU launches Canada’s largest undergrad investment fund

Nov 30, 2011

Simon Fraser University’s Beedie School of Business has launched the Beedie Endowment Asset Management (BEAM) fund. With a value of $5 million, it’s the largest undergraduate-student managed investment fund in Canada. The BEAM fund is second in size overall after SFU’s $10.8 million Student Investment Advisory Service, which is managed by SFU graduate business students. Students participating in BEAM will be allowed to manage $5 million of the Beedie School’s endowment fund, created in 2011 […]

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Heart attack research spawns degree pair for MFRM graduate Sara Moghaddamjoo

Oct 7, 2011

Sara Moghaddamjoo hopes her biomedical engineering master’s degree research at Simon Fraser University will help to better predict heart attacks before they happen. And to ensure the commercial success of a non-invasive wearable device that she has developed she concurrently pursued a master’s degree in financial risk management (MFRM) at SFU’s Beedie School of Business.

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