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UNB Faculty of Management
Navigating the future of finance: Dr. Joseph DeCoste and UNB's Student Investment Fund
Faculty of Management
Posted: October 25, 2023 12:00:00 AM ADT
Category: Faculty Highlights , Programs , Student Investment Fund
The University of New Brunswick’s Student Investment Fund (SIF) course has a new dedicated instructor, Dr. Joseph DeCoste, who joined the faculty of management in 2022 and is a member of the finance area. The SIF course seamlessly combines the study path for the CFA Level One exam with hands-on investment experience. Its inception dates back to 1998 when industry partner Vestcor entrusted students with the oversight of a $1 million pension fund, allowing them to gain firsthand...
Student Investment Fund prepares student for new position
Faculty of Management
Posted: July 12, 2023 12:00:00 AM ADT
Category: Student Investment Fund , Alumni
Refiloe “Caleb” Letele achieved a major goal when he graduated from UNB. He came all the way from South Africa to complete the MBA in the faculty of management in hopes it would lead to opportunities in the finance industry. When he graduated last May he went directly into the role of new business development manager with Mackenzie Investments and attributes much of his success in obtaining this role to the Student Investment Fund (SIF) course. The SIF course provides hands on...
UNB SIF Team wins 2022 CFA Atlantic Ethics Challenge
Faculty of Management
Posted: February 9, 2022 12:00:00 AM AST
Category: Student Highlights , Students , Student Investment Fund
A team of students completing UNB’s Student Investment Fund (SIF) class just won the top prize in the Atlantic Canadian CFA Ethics Challenge. Ethical decision-making and conduct establishes trust between investors and their clients. Investors cannot operate without trust, so as part of their yearlong training to become investment professionals, SIF students complete an online course in ethical decision-making offered by the CFA Institute. After completing the course this year, the SIF...
Recent MBA grad wins Canada-wide financial futures challenge
Faculty of Management
Posted: December 31, 2021 12:00:00 AM AST
Category: Alumni Highlights , Student Investment Fund , Alumni
Deji (Philip) Adetunji (MBA’21) graduated last Spring with an MBA from UNB Fredericton and Student Investment Fund experience in his portfolio. It landed him a management job even before graduation and recognition from the Financial Consumer Agency of Canada for one of the top research papers on financial literacy for Canadians. Deji grew up and completed his undergraduate degree in Nigeria. After his studies he worked with the insurance company AXA and then with consulting firm PwC,...
Prescience and Optimism – a winning combination in these times
Faculty of Management
Posted: April 16, 2021 12:00:00 AM ADT
Category: Student Investment Fund , Students , Alumni
Students enrolled in UNB’s Student Investment Fund are wearing big smiles on their faces. On their last day of classes, they learned that one of their teams placed first in the global Chicago Quantitative Alliance (CQA) Challenge, beating out teams from high-ranking universities like Carnegie Mellon, University of Michigan Ann Arbor and Chinese University of Hong Kong. A second SIF team placed fourth!The CQA is a professional investment organization comprised of leading quantitative...
A year of challenges and opportunities: Student Investment Fund update
Faculty of Management
Posted: October 26, 2020 12:00:00 AM ADT
Category: Student Investment Fund
It’s been an unprecedented year for the University of New Brunswick’s Student Investment Fund (SIF), full of surprises, challenges and new opportunities. Things were going well for the 2019-20 year. Just before the March Break, the SIF and MQIM students journeyed to Toronto for their annual visit with alumni and senior executives in the finance district; then the Covid-19 pandemic happened. The University closed the campus on March 13 and suspended all classes. Classes resumed on...
Introducing the Centre for Financial Studies interim Program Officer
Faculty of Management
Posted: October 26, 2020 12:00:00 AM ADT
Category: Student Investment Fund , Alumni
The Centre for Financial Studies has a new interim Program Officer! Harsh Jain, a brand new alumnus of UNB's Master in Quantitative Investment Management program, has been filling this role since September. During his program at UNB, Jain opted to complete the Student Investment Fund for his course electives and competed in the Ben Graham Centre’s Stock Selection Competition, as well as the global Chicago Quantitative Alliance (CQA) Challenge. (Of note, his team placed 8th among 35...
SIF 2020: teaching and learning in the through the pandemic
Faculty of Management
Posted: October 26, 2020 12:00:00 AM ADT
Category: Alumni , Student Investment Fund
Since COVID-19 hit last March, UNB’s Student Investment Fund (SIF) class has become a virtual undertaking. The University closed the campus and suspended all classes on March 13, but thanks to technology, UNB’s Centre for Enhanced Teaching and Learning and IT Services, faculties were able to swiftly move course materials onto the D2L platform and resume classes through MS Teams. All classes have been delivered via alternative methods using this technology and will continue to run...
Industry Expert to Pass on Knowledge and Connections to SIF students
Liz Lemon-Mitchell
Posted: September 6, 2019 12:00:00 AM ADT
Category: Faculty , Programs , Student Investment Fund
Finance students in the faculty of management at the University of New Brunswick will have access to a wealth of industry experience and professional connections with the new director of the Centre for Financial Studies, Don Wishart. Wishart is president of Seamark Asset Management Ltd., a Halifax based investment management firm, and brings 25 years of investment management experience to the position. Before beginning his position as director earlier this year, Wishart had been involved with...
It’s a great story: UNB graduate comes home to business
Liz Lemon-Mitchell
Posted: June 7, 2018 12:00:00 AM ADT
Category: Student Investment Fund
A UNB business graduate has returned to UNB Fredericton to work with a program near and dear to his heart. Keagan Marcus (BBA ‘10, MBA ‘14) joined the faculty of business administration in May to fill the position of program officer for the Centre for Financial Studies (CFS). In addition to developing industry partnerships for the CFS he will be busy coordinating the experiential components of the Student Investment Fund class and the new Quantitative Investment Management (MQIM)...
Student investors test their knowledge and build confidence
Liz Lemon-Mitchell
Posted: June 4, 2018 12:00:00 AM ADT
Category: Student Investment Fund
Finance specializations are popular among business students eager to launch careers in finance and investing, but the degree alone is often not enough to help them get their foot through the door. The faculty of business administration at the University of New Brunswick Fredericton campus understood this when they launched the Student Investment Fund (SIF) program in 1998, which has students apply their academic learning to managing a real fund now worth over $8 million. The hands-on learning...
The best way to learn finance - UNB style
Liz Lemon-Mitchell
Posted: June 4, 2018 12:00:00 AM ADT
Category: Student Investment Fund
A lot can happen in an elevator: just ask Olivier Babin, fourth year BBA student and member of the 2018 Student Investment Fund (SIF) class. This past term, during a SIF field trip of Toronto’s finance district, a chance encounter in an elevator with Jean Desgagne, the President and CEO of TMX Group, resulted in his being offered a job with the TMX.A valuable feature to the SIF program’s success is the opportunities it provides students to meet key players in the finance industry,...