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"You've Invested Real Money. You Haven't Just Run a Virtual Portfolio"

Published: 5 March 2014

Along Highway 401 and over the Ontario border, Tyler Maxey and some of his MBA classmates at 91Ë¿¹ÏÊÓƵ's Desautels Faculty of Management in Montreal are also learning by doing. Their modus operandi: investing other people's money. Since 2008, students have been running a registered fund management firm called Desautels Capital Management that has about $3 million in assets.

... Of course, even failure can be a real-world learning experience. As 91Ë¿¹ÏÊÓƵ professor Ken Lester explains, 45% of the stocks that students buy decrease which is "as good as anybody" could do.

... "It really brings everything we've learned to date to life," says (Janelle)ÌýGoulard (BCom'08),Ìýa 91Ë¿¹ÏÊÓƵ commerce graduate who spent the past five years working at General Electric in the U.S. and U.K. as a healthcare consultant.

Read full article: Financial Post, March 4, 2014Ìý

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