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‘Insight’ makes valiant effort at Ifs Student Investor Challenge Regional Finals in the City
Well done to the ‘Insight’ Student Investor team, made up of Year 11 students Charlie Dane, William Fuller, Stuart Jones and George Welch. The National stage of the competition asked student teams to maximise a notional £100,000 investment in FTSE 100 and AIM 250 companies between November 2010 and February 2011. ‘Insight’ finished 26thnationally (12thin the South-East region) with a yield of 17% and were invited to the
After a quick visit to the Tate Modern and a quick tour of the financial district, the team arrived at the event. The day was made up of a three-part quiz against twenty other teams aged from 15 to 18 years of age. There were some very difficult questions based around share-trading, inflation targets, currencies, international finance and financial institutions. The day was very competitive, but a great introduction to a ‘City career’. Although not making the top three teams to go onto the National final and the chance to compete for a trip to
