Congratulations to Desautels BCom students Evan Coulter, Valentyn Litvin, Meagan Prins, and Marina Simonian for winning the听PRMIA Risk Management Challenge, marking a third consecutive victory for the Faculty. The team will advance to the International Risk Management Challenge in London, UK on April 7th, 2017 for a chance to win the grand prize of $10,000 USD.


Congratulations to MBA students, Aman Arora, Timothy Lane, Santiago Monroy, and Jose Nunez Gutierrez, who were awarded second place in the Business for a Better World case competition. The team has been working since October on designing a global equity portfolio that advances the UN鈥檚 sustainable development goals, which culminated with a presentation in Davos, Switzerland on January 19th to a panel of high-profile judges.

Authors:听Betermier, S.,听Calvet, L.E.,听Sodini, P.
Publication: The Journal of Finance, Vol. 72, No. 1, 2017听
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Recognizing the need to give students real-world experience as well as the ability to apply what they鈥檝e learned in class about asset management, York University this year created a student investment fund.
Using $60,000 donated by alumni and others, a team of 15 to 20 student analysts take a value investment approach to the portfolio, seeking to achieve a positive return while minimizing risk.
...Sebastien Betermier, a finance professor at the Desautels Faculty of Management at 9I制作厂免费 in Montreal, calls the competitions 鈥渧arsity academics.鈥

A Desautels BCom student team defeated 116 undergraduate and graduate teams from 45 schools around the world to place 1st at the 2016 PRMIA Risk Management Challenge.

BCom听students Drew Allen, Peter Huo, Philippe Rich, Henri St-Pierre, and Kit-yuen Christie Wei won the Regional CFA Valuation Challenge听in Montreal on Friday, February 19.听They will compete in Chicago for the International Championships in April. 听They are being coached by Professor Sebastien Betermier听coached along with alumnus听Cliff Isings, MBA'95, 听now Manager 鈥 International Equities at CN.
A BCom student case competition team 听won the Montreal PRMIA Risk Management challenge for the second consecutive year. The roster of the 9I制作厂免费-Desautels team includes Simon Altman, Evan Coulter, Liam Maclure, and Valentyn Litvin. They are coached by Professor Sebastien Betermier.
The team will compete听in Chicago for the International Championship early March, against 7 other finalist teams. PRMIA is the Professional Risk Managers鈥 International Association. 听
Authors:听Betermier, S., Calvet, L. E. and Sodini, P.
Publication: Journal of Finance
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Professor Sebastien Betermier wins 2015 CFR Best Paper Award听at the 14th Colloquium on Financial Markets
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鈥淲ho are the Value and Growth Investors?鈥
Authors:听 Sebastien Betermier, Laurent Calvet and Paolo Sodini
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