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►Mayer Fund Analyzes Starwood on TheStreet.Com
►Smith Team Takes Home First Place and $10K in ACG Case Competition
The team from Smith consisting of
Mayer Fund members Jonathan Steele,
Alex Obaza, Denny Chu, and Fang Fang
competed against teams from George
Mason, George Washington University and
the University of Virginia for a first
Prize of $10,000.
►Smith
School Students Ring Bell to Open NYMEX
| Which stocks should you pick in 2008? The
uncertain economy
and ripples from the
subprime mortgage
crisis have created
waves in the stock
markets that
threaten to continue
their choppy
behaviors at least
for the first half
of the new year.
Where should you put
your money in 2008?
In this episode of
Smith Business CloseUp Second-year MBA student
Bill
Song gives his investment
picks for 2008 and talks about
the Mayer
Fund and his role as a
portfolio manager. |
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►Mayer Fund
Portfolio Manager Appears on CNBC's
Fast Money, June 2007
Managing a Million-Dollar Fund -
Experiential Learning at its Best
Today’s MBAs are considering business
schools not only based on the school’s
reputation, rankings and curriculum –
but, increasingly, based on the unique
experiential learning opportunities
business schools offer. Businesses, too,
demand that today’s MBAs immediately
apply the skills they learn in b-school
to the day-to-day responsibilities of
the company.
In this Smith Business Video View,
Tray Spilker a second-year MBA
student, talks about the Smith School’s
$1.2 million Mayer Fund, his role as the
fund’s portfolio manager, and how
today’s top business students are
thriving as they put theory into
practice.
Mayer
Fund Members Ring Bell to Open NYSE
A group of Robert H. Smith
School of Business undergraduate and MBA
students had the honor of ringing the
bell to open trading on the New York
Stock Exchange on January 19, 2007. The
students manage the Smith School’s two
investment funds — the
Mayer Fund
and
the Lemma Senbet Fund — and are in New
York for an educational trip to meet
with financial professionals.
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Fifteen Robert H. Smith
School of Business students
took part in the
bell-ringing ceremony to
open trading on the New York
Stock Exchange Jan.19. MBA
students, representing the
Mayer Fund, were:
Tray Spilker (pictured at
center), Avi Lerner, Chris
Van Horn, Xiaoyu Zhang,
Johannes Thorsteinsson,
Sachin Agarwal, and Eun Mi
Yu.
Undergraduate student
managers representing the
Lemma Senbet Fund were:
Randy Doak, Mark Mendelsoahn,
Daniel Politzer, John
Scagnelli, Mirag Vamja,
Fahad Qayumi, Matt Shaffer,
and Frank Wilson. |
The 9:30 a.m. bell-ringing ceremony
was televised on CNBC and Bloomberg
Television, as well as broadcast live on
NYSE’s Web site,
www.nyse.com. A photo of the
ceremony and additional information can
be found
at the NYSE Web site. Following the
bell-ringing, the students took part in
an educational seminar at the exchange.
The successful MBA-managed Mayer
Fund, a $1.2 million portfolio, beat the
S&P 500 index by 9 percent last year.
The fund was established in 1993 and
each year pays dividends to the Dean’s
Office to benefit Smith School programs.
Second-year full-time MBA students
comprise the fund’s management team, two
as portfolio managers and 10 as equity
analysts. In addition, a member is
responsible for technology and marketing
for the fund.
►Mayer Fund managers appeared on
CNBC's Power Lunch during visits to
New
York in 2002
and 2003.
►News
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