I founded a student Asset Management group at my school and we are going to get it started next fall. I was wondering if you guys had any suggstions on which trading platform to use?
any other suggestions would be appreciated as well.
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depending on the AUM, i recommend interactive Brokers, as long as your assets are at around 100k+ you should be fine. if you are just straight up value and not much trading then TD Ameritrade is the best. My college has 1mill+ in there SMF and they use IB just becouse we trade weekly.
TradeFields. It's available online, on iPhone (app), iPad, and I think Android/W8.
Wait no, you're asking for a proper asset management platform...
I was thinking of doing something similar but calling it the "Financial Analysis Group for Students".
^I see what you did there
Do it! is a differentiating factor and if you can successfully raise the capital needed to implement a supportable value investing strategy then you will have a strong discussion point for future interviews. In my experience people will initially scoff at the idea until it gains momentum, once you start to attract real investors those same people will want to 'partner up' because they see the value in the initiative.
I was one of the people that scoffed at my mate for trying it, he got 6 job offers 4 from boutique asset managers, 1 consultancy firm, and 1 BB. I got 48 rejections and 2 acceptances, it is all about what you do independently and starting a group like that is an excellent use of your time.
Good luck
Where/how did you get the money?
Also, what type of value research do students do and how are student funds structured, as in how many people make the investing decisions and buy the stock?
We were able to get the school to throw some money at us, but now we are going to try and get some alumni to invest. We are going to have four groups, three in equities and one in fixed income. Each group will be responsible for their investing decisions, but we also have some faculty advisors that we will be working pretty close with.
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