How does your experience in your school’s student managed fund help in job hunting?
Most b-schools have student managed funds. Were/are you involved? Does that help you land an internship, an interview, or a job offer?
Could you please include some information about your fund, such as:
- Equity/ fixed income, with/out derivatives
- AUM
- Performance relative to your benchmark
- How much help from professionals/ professors of portfolio management, security selection
- Is it managed as a course or a club? Size of class/club
- Successful stories of former class/club members
- Did your school participate in competitions such as GAME
Thanks!
I was not personally involved in a student-managed fund at my university but I know some people who were. Job hunting was easier in some sense for them because they could always leverage their connection with alumni of the club when networking.
These clubs also help if you are applying for a role that involves work related to what you do in a fund. It shows your interest in similar work.
I heard some firms are recruiting sophomores from student managed fund. Intern. This is an east coast school not far from NYC. The finance program is good.
hope it helps
Overall, you can leverage it heavily, or you can coast, regardless, you will be a noob and it is only for resume padding at best
Thanks lifeboat and Jacoby n Myers . Are your funds manged as a club or a course? Sounds like clubs. Is it just one semester?
Mine was managed as a club, with MBA/finance and econ faculty oversight if wanted to execute something risky.
This obviously varies, but for our school, if you got through the application process, you were in the group for however long you wanted to show up and work.
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