Excerpt from the Dayton Daily News
Wright State University students have grown an investment portfolio nearly four times since an initial allocation by the school in 2007.
Students in Wright State’s Raj Soin College of Business are given an opportunity to get real-world portfolio management experience through a semester-long course.
Through the course, Real Money, students are able to manage and invest in stocks with a university fund account.
According to Matt Ingram, the WSU Board of Trustees in 2007 allocated $500,000 to the Raider Asset Management account.
“The students manage the portfolio, they make all of the decisions,” Ingram said. “They decide what to buy and what to sell. They can only work with the stocks and cash in the portfolio.”
The class size is typically less than 10 and students interested go through an application process. Ingram hopes to expand the class to more students in the future.
