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:

  1. Equity/ fixed income, with/out derivatives
  2. AUM
  3. Performance relative to your benchmark
  4. How much help from professionals/ professors of portfolio management, security selection
  5. Is it managed as a course or a club? Size of class/club
  6. Successful stories of former class/club members
  7. 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.

 
  1. Equity with different kind of products - ETFs, funds etc. no derivatives, no short positions.
  2. I think half a million dollars.
  3. My team averaged 7%.
  4. All teaching was conducted by more experienced students and more self-learning.
  5. 40 analysts or so including management.
  6. Some of them secured nice positions in EMEA. Others went to audit. Above average I'd say.

hope it helps

 
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  1. Nothing besides basic stocks and ETFs
  2. $28-35K
  3. ~ 50%, that was only for my sector though, mainly because we bought Facebook at a good time which allowed us to play around with other buys
  4. All teaching came from experienced students, self-learning on Bloomberg and wallstreet prep
  5. 25 people, application based,
  6. Networking worked if you wanted to go to specific high cost of living cities (think SF), besides that, difficult to break into wallstreet (possible, but not to be expected). Does help get in past the screen phases with HR though

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

 

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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