UNB business students beating the market - Daily Gleaner
Author: Communications
Posted on Feb 12, 2011
Category: UNB Saint John
New Brunswick's civil servants can sleep easy knowing that a small part of their pension fund is being managed by a group of elite business students at the University of New Brunswick.
In 1998, New Brunswick Investment Management Corp. hired the UNB Student Investment Fund to be external managers of $1 million in real cash.
The fund is now worth about $2.7 million - all from investment returns - and well above the $2.3 million value it reached in 2007 before the recession.
Program director Prof. Glen Cleland said in the last three years - the worst market since the Great Depression - the fund has consistently outperformed many professional money managers.
"Not only were the students able to protect the value of their portfolio, they managed to grow it," said Cleland.
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