Wharton Investment Competition
Are you keen to learn more about finance and investing? Explore the Wharton Investment Competition, in which high school student help build a portfolio for a fictional client. The winner is the team that can best articulate their strategies (not based on pure growth).
“The Wharton Global High School Investment Competition is a free, English-based, global, online investment simulation for high school students (9th to 12th grade) and teachers. Together, they learn about teamwork, communication, risk, diversification, company analysis, industry analysis and investing.
Teams examine a brief client profile and are tasked with working collaboratively to meet that client’s short- and long-term investment goals as they try to win his or her business. Equipped with an approved stock list (a selection of domestic and international equities) and the Wharton Investment Simulator (WInS), which allows them to buy and sell stocks, over the course of 10 weeks students develop an investment strategy, analyze industries and companies, and build a portfolio using $100,000 in virtual cash.”
How do I get started? Click here.
How do I expand this narrative arc? Want to deepen and broaden your experience with finance, investing and economics? Consider one of these:
Combine business sense with public interest activism when you enter the Mastercard Challenge to improve banking access to low income populations.
Compete in the National Economics Challenge
Explore one of the many intensive and challenging finance and economic related summer programs for high schoolers at the Wharton School
HOT TIP: This is a nice way to learn about finance and investing that goes beyond pure stock picks.