The Finance Professionals' Post

A Call for Volunteers

The New York Society of Security Analysts (NYSSA) will be working with the Sanford I. Weill Institute in order help locate volunteers to teach high school students basic information about finance and business. The Sanford I. Weill Institute, sponsored largely by Citi Foundation, is embedded into the normal school day at the High School of Economics & Finance and runs on Wednesdays from 1:24 p.m. to 2:24 p.m., starting April 28th through June 9th. 

Why SEMI?: A Former SEMI Participant Discusses the Experience

Like most finance and investments undergraduate students in Baruch College’s Zicklin School of Business, I was preparing to land a job at one of the major financial firms. But virtually no one anticipated the global financial meltdown that began in the summer of 2007 and led to the demise of many of the world’s largest financial firms. This made an already competitive job market more competitive.

SEMI Program Celebrates with Reception Dinner

On Thursday, July 30, the SEMI Program held its year-ending reception dinner at the Westin New York at Times Square. Students, mentors, and past participants all took part in the festivities celebrating the end of another successful SEMI season.

At the event, NYSSA Student Committee Chair Virginia Donner announced the winning team of the SteepleChase Competition and thanked all students and mentors for coming.

Fordham University Wins NYSSA Investment Research Challenge

A team of students from Fordham University edged out the competition from Rutgers Business School, Cornell University, and Stony Brook University to take top honors at the 8th Annual Investment Research Challenge. The students from Fordham—Thomas Messineo, Alex Ng, Jonathan Ball, and Ravi Misra—will now move on to the 4th Annual Global Investment Research Challenge in Hong Kong, where they will once again present their analysis of the subject company, Bitstream (NASDAQ: BITS). Messineo, the team captain, and Ball took some time out of their preparations to answer a few questions.

SEMI Participants Awarded Heloise S. Ham Scholarship

NYSSA awarded the Heloise S. Ham Scholarship to three deserving participants from the SEMI program: Patrick Dluzniewski, Baruch College; Sameed Musvee, Columbia University; and Joseph Tinti, Fordham University.