In its second year, the All-America Student Analyst Competition pitted undergraduate and graduate students from all over the U.S. against one another in the hunt for investment returns using a professional-style trading engine. More than 2,100 students from 81 schools participated in the competition, which is supported by ALPHASEAL®, a software platform developed by Stamford, Connecticut–based Mark My Media.
The platform measures the daily performance of participants’ portfolios, calculating six investment factors – net benchmark outperformance, volatility, balance sheet impact, net exposure impact, long alpha and short alpha – employing the Russell 3000 Index as its benchmark. Three times as many students competed than did in the inaugural year, with more than double the number of participating schools.
The competition was part of Finance Professor Osman Kilic’s Finance 470 Trading Strategies class in the Fall 2013 semester. All 25 students competed in the AlphaSeal trading competition. Congratulations to Marissa Conde (48th Place) and Zachary Tolkinen (49th Place). All of the 25 QU attendees performed well.
The article and complete results of all ranked schools and students are available here: www.institutionalinvestor.com/STUDENTCOMP