Roland George Investments Program

"Roland George students develop their own investment goals, objectives and criteria for managing their portfolio. While many seasoned investors have lost significant sums over the past several years in a volatile market, the students have produced outstanding returns.The Roland George Investments Program is open to select students who, for two semesters, step into the ""real world"" of portfolio management with real money, make mistakes, learn from those mistakes and also enjoy their victories. Individual security selections are researched using fundamental tools and data services provided by Bloomberg, Financial Wire, Morningstar, Thomson Reuters and Baseline.Students must defend their recommendations to other students and an investments committee, dominated by students who function much like the senior strategy group of an investment management firm. Their goal is to earn a return that funds the acquisition of special systems and software for the program, as well as to meet operating expenses. Presentations are held in a corporate-like boardroom setting in the Lynn Business Center. Twice a year, student presentations are open to the greater community at RGIP Public Trustee Meetings.Students do their research in a state-of-the-art trading room. The room includes a real-time ticker and data wall, television sets for market news and computers that allow for cutting-edge research."