"Investors that do the best, and have done the best, are those that stay and compound at above-average rates over the long term." - John Paulson
What's in this week's newsletter?
1. Club Announcements
2. Events / Job Postings
3. RSVP Polls
Club Announcements
1. Club Meeting on Monday, 11/26
Hope everyone had a wonderful Thanksgiving! We will be meeting in the usual spot E62-250 from 6:00-7:30pm ET on Monday. Telis will resume his series of discussion-based lectures on the tools required for investment management recruiting.
2. Stock Pitch Practice
If you are currently signed-up to participate in any one of the upcoming stock pitch competitions, you should consider reaching out to Dan, Hish, or Telis to fine tine your ideas and presentations. It doesn't hurt to get a second look.
Events / Job Postings
1. Global Stock Pitch Competition
I am Luka Sterling from the investment research platform, Investments Revolution. Investments Revolution is a platform for actionable crowd-sourced investment research.
Given your position at MIT Sloan School of Management, I would like to notify you of a global stock pitch competition we are running currently until the 19th of December. We would welcome you sharing the competition with your students. Benefits of competing include the potential to win a monetary prize, editorial feedback from buy-side professionals, and the possibility for your students to practice their knowledge in a real case scenario.
Please find attached the competition pamphlet in pdf form for further reference. You may also read about the competition on our website by clicking here. Rules and resources for the competition may be found here, and guidelines for the stock pitch here.
Please do not hesitate to get in touch should you have any question.
2. Bain & Co. Private Equity Practice - Lunch Meeting, 11/29
Hugh MacArthur SM ‘93, Founder and Head of Bain’s Private Equity practice, will be coming to campus next Thursday for a PEG Industry Presentation. This is a great opportunity to hear Hugh share Bain’s insights on the PE industry and the results we deliver on the work we do. A Q&A session will follow.
Date: Thursday, November 29th Time: 11:45am – 12:45 pm, lunch provided Where: Sloan Campus E51-325
If you are interested in attending, please register here: https://careers.bain.com/recruits/EventDetail?folderId=11436
3. Harvard Case Competition - February 8th, 2019
Greetings. I hope the present email finds you well. I am contacting you in order to invite your club to participate in the Global Case Competition at Harvard, one of the world's largest finance case competitions organized by the Harvard College European Business Group (EBG) and the IFSA Network.
The case will be released to participating teams on February 8th and competitors will have until March 1st to solve it. Cases will be graded based on the accuracy of quantitative results. The top 10 teams will be given the opportunity to make a short case presentation to a panel at our final event, on April 26th in Harvard Yard. The panel consists of esteemed professors and distinguished industry professionals.
The focus of the case will be M&A, Private Equity, and Investing Banking.
Tickets are available for purchase at http://www.harvardcasecompetition.com
Cash prize: $10,000 USD
This is an outstanding opportunity to learn, interact with students, cultivate a powerful network, and engage with distinguished financial professionals.
Please, let us know if you would be interested in participating, or if there might be a more appropriate person or organization to contact within your school.
Thank you for your time, and good luck.
http://www.harvardcasecompetition.com
4. Opportunities at The New England Venture Summit
Wanted to let you know that we have a few slots available for students to volunteer at The New England Venture Summit on December 11th - 12th at Lombardo's Conference Center in Boston Randolph, MA.
As you may know, this exclusive venture summit will bring together over 500 Venture Capitalists, Corporate VCs, Private Investors, Investment bankers and CEOs of cutting edge companies; will feature over 120 VCs as speakers and judges, presentations from more than 50 Top Innovators, and high-level networking opportunities.
As such, I wanted to check whether you could share this opportunity with your club. I've included additional details below. Those students that are interested can fill the form available here or email me directly at gil@youngstartup.comspecifying which day(s) they are available as well as include their cell phone number.
Opportunity to Volunteer and attend The New England Venture Summit
This exclusive venture capital summit will bring together over 500 VCs, Corporate VCs, Private Investors, Investment bankers and CEOs of cutting edge companies, will feature an impressive line-up of more than 120 VCs oninteractive panels; presentations from more than 50 Top Innovators and high-level networking opportunities.
VC funds confirmed to speak: To join us as a volunteer, please fill out the form Click Here
The "Featured Company" Coaching Session is on July 10th from 1:00pm - 5:30pm which is a more intimate gathering of VCs and entrepreneurs and will feature seven VCs on a panel discussion followed by presentations from some of the featured companies with the VCs providing feedback. The session will then be followed by a cocktail reception which you are welcome to join us for.
The full day Venture Summit will be on the 12th.
Students are able to gain free admission and in turn help out for part of the day and enjoy the summit for the other part. Volunteers assist with setup, registration, program coordination, company presentations etc.
The volunteer time slots are:
Tuesday, December 11th
9:30am - 5:30pm (the reception follows)
Wednesday, December 12th
6:30am - 5:30pm
Here is a link to the program website for full details:
https://www.youngstartup.com/newengland2018
5. Orbis Investment Management Summer Internship
See attached pamphlet. Internship opportunity posted on CDO website.
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