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UNB Business Students Outperform Professional Money Managers

Liz Lemon-Mitchell

Posted: April 22, 2009 5:00:00 AM ADT

Category: CFS


A group of investment finance students at the University of New Brunswick have achieved impressive returns on their portfolio of nearly $2 million in spite of the turbulent global financial environment. While stories of bank failures, Ponzi schemes and catastrophic financial losses in the financial markets dominated the news in 2008, student investors in the University of New Brunswick's...

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UNB Students Canada s Next Top Ad Executives

Liz Lemon-Mitchell

Posted: April 6, 2009 5:00:00 AM ADT

Category: Student Highlights


Two of Canada's next top ad executives are students at the University of New Brunswick. Elizabeth McCleave and Matieu Daigle, students in the master of business administration (MBA) program at UNB Fredericton have won Volkswagon's national marketing competition, beating out teams from universities across Canada. The students will each receive a new Volkswagon Golf and will be offered...

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UNB Entrepreneurs Win Big Prizes at NBIF Breakthru Competition

Liz Lemon-Mitchell

Posted: April 2, 2009 5:00:00 AM ADT

Category: Student Highlights


UNB's Activator team, "KnowCharge" won the silver prize of $60,000 in investment equity and in kind services at the New Brunswick Innovation Fund (NBIF) Breakthru competition held on March 25, 2009. The company, made up of team leader, Chris Marshall and MBA teammates Rob Morrow and Edgar Gallibois, was formed through the Activator program, which is coordinated by UNB's International Business...

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