Managerial Finance: Volume 46 Issue 4

Publisher’s note

Stephen Buser

Guest editorial

Stephen Buser

Student Managed Funds – a panel discussion

Hunter M. Holzhauer, Timothy A. Krause, Judson Russell, Deborah Harrell, Arindam Bandopadhyaya

Student Managed Funds (SMFs) are extremely popular investment programs at many colleges and universities that provide their students with experiential learning opportunities to…

A student-managed investment fund course design structure

Michael Phillips, John Volker, Susan Cockrell

The purpose of this paper is to provide a detailed framework of goals, processes and solutions that can serve as a starting point for instructors in designing their own…

Variation in the structure and administration of student-managed investment funds

Charles M. Boughton, Katherine L. Jackson

The purpose of this paper is to understand the differences present in student-managed investment funds (SMIF).

Student investment groups: enhancing the liberal arts experience

Brian D. Bergquist, Dawn L. Keig, Timothy J. Wilkinson

Schools must not necessarily have a large amount of money or advanced finance curriculum for students to get the benefits of participating in a student-managed investment program…

Structuring stock investment funds with a limited number of qualified students

David A. DeBoeuf

The purpose of this paper is to outline the problems encountered by a student-managed investment program (SMIP) when the pool of qualified finance majors is limited in number…

The learning experience continues: two decades and counting for CSULB’s SMIF program

Peter Ammermann, Pia Gupta, Yulong Ma

The student-managed investment fund (SMIF) program at California State University, Long Beach (CSULB), was launched in 1995 with one portfolio worth $50,000. In the two decades…

The essence of investing: experiential education with a student-run portfolio

Elizabeth Tashjian

Many undergraduates major in business in hopes of being well-prepared for a career. However, Arum and Roksa (2010) find business students perform poorly relative to peers on…

Student managed fund (SMF) at the University of Connecticut: History, purpose, performance and the future

Chinmoy Ghosh, Paul Gilson, Michel Rakotomavo

The purpose of this paper is to present a review of the student managed investment fund at the School of Business, University of Connecticut.

Rebsamen investment fund integration in finance education

Samar Ashour, Craig G. Rennie, Sergio Santamaria

The purpose of this paper is to describe lessons learned from integrating student-managed investment funds (SMIFs) in finance education systems based on the case of the Raymond…

Confessions of a faculty advisor: Development of a student managed investment fund program under constraints

Erin Oldford

The purpose of this paper is to describe how a student-managed investment fund (SMIF) moved from an idea to an operational program over the period of a year at Memorial University…