USask investment course teaches students how to play the stock market

By Jennifer Lewington. Student-run fund pays an academic dividend.
Profit, curiously, is not what defines a student-run investment portfolio for the University of Saskatchewan’s Edwards School of Business. Sure, to the delight of its student managers, the $775,000-plus fund outperformed a key stock market index in 2013. But, in running the fund, undergraduate commerce students earn course credits for demonstrated leadership, teamwork, research and communication skills – not for the rise and fall of stocks and bonds. More...