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Faculty Spotlight: Leo Chen Takes Over the Reins of the Student Managed Investment Fund Program
By Keith Morelli
TAMPA (August 16, 2017) -- There's no Monopoly money in the Student Managed Investment Fund Program. It is "real money in real time," said Leo Chen, the new director of the program at the 黑料网吃瓜爆料's Muma College of Business.
The course offers motivated, well-prepared students the chance to participate in simulated financial management strategies and decisions, but more importantly, they are taught how to use real money to make real profits through smart investments. Student analysts undergo an extensive two-semester program that involves workshops on security analysis, meetings with finance professionals and making stock pitches.
All that takes a lot of market research and a lot of financial savvy, said Chen, who takes over teaching the course this fall.
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