ISCTE University creates Investment Fund

The ISCTE Business School, School who visited recently and which has enjoyed quite a pioneering project at the national level. This project is the creation, management and maintenance of an Investment Fund in shadow, or will all conditions and actions of any real substance but is not commercial.

What is an Investment Fund?

For those who do not know, an Investment Fund is a special kind of a deposit in which the depositors have the notion that money can lose the "deposit" their money in the fund, but the chances of which have high profitability, more than one normal deposit. The capital deposited in the fund is managed so as to then be dispersed by several assets: shares, indexes, CFD's, commodities, fixed term deposits, among others. Thus the applicant to see its capital without having to render the work of the run, but controlling where your money is invested.

This is a common explanation to realize all of that comes an Investment Fund. Therefore, the fund created by students of the ISCTE Business School will aim to study the parts of the creation of the fund (and bureaucracies) and management of capital as if it were real.

The Fund will invest in companies in the index PSI-20 and will report analyzes the various assets in the form of research, fundamental analysis of companies.

"Students of the school's management ISCTE will have the opportunity to use financial instruments in a real market, and apply all the theoretical content taught in the financial disciplines to manage funds of virtual shares",

IBS stresses to the Official Business.

The IBS has extensive experience in academic training in the areas of finance and market, seeking to stimulate entrepreneurship and innovation not only among their students, but also in the young secondary, through the organization's annual Game of Investment, an initiative that puts the test students' knowledge in real markets. In 2008, the winning team beat the performance of the PSI-20 index over the same period of time.

Source: Journal of Business, ISCTE Business School

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