Institutional Investor Announces Winners of Third Annual Student Analyst Competition
(firmenpresse) - NEW YORK, NY -- (Marketwired) -- 04/30/15 -- Institutional Investor, one of the world's foremost media brands, announces that Matthew K. Feldman, an undergraduate at Baruch College in New York, has won the .
Complete results can be found online at .
The winning graduate student is Jason Ayat from Fordham University.
The leading school is the University of Texas at Austin, which has 20 students in the top 100; finance professor Kelly Kamm is the faculty adviser.
In its third year, the All-America Student Analyst Competition pits undergraduate and graduate students from all over the U.S. against one another in the hunt for investment returns using a professional-style trading engine. More than 2,000 students from 79 schools participated in the competition, which is supported by ALPHASEAL®, a software platform developed by Stamford, Connecticut-based Mark My Media.
The platform measures the daily performance of participants' portfolios, calculating six factors -- net benchmark outperformance, volatility, balance sheet impact, net exposure impact, long alpha and short alpha -- employing the Russell 3000 Index as its benchmark.
The schools with the highest number of students in the top 100 include:
University of Texas at Austin
Baruch College
Fordham University
Drexel University
Fairfield University
Quinnipiac University
Canisius College
Tulane University
University of Texas at Dallas
University of California, Berkeley
Now in its fifth decade, Institutional Investor has consistently distinguished itself among the world's foremost financial publications with groundbreaking journalism and incisive writing that provides essential intelligence for a global audience. In addition, Institutional Investor offers a host of proprietary research and rankings that serve as respected industry benchmarks. For more information, visit .
Mark My Media, based in Stamford, Connecticut, produces league tables for the financial services industry and has a sophisticated software platform to track portfolios. The company's ALPHASEAL® offering helps business students bridge the gap between what is taught in the classroom and what is expected on the trading floor by giving them a tool to track stock performance along similar metrics as those used by investment professionals. Mark My Media treats data as a precious asset and allows system-users to warehouse their data on our own hardware, in a SAS-70 certified environment accessible via the cloud. For additional information on the company please visit
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