[BusinessGrad] FW: Business Elective Opportunity -- FINC525 Practicum in Financial Management

[Harper, Larron]

Spring enrollment for graduate business students begins tomorrow.  For your consideration there is an additional elective course, FINC525 Practicum in Financial Management also known as the Bulldog Fund, open to selected graduate business students.  Details about the course are provided below.  An application form is attached.

Mr. Larron C. Harper
Director, Graduate Programs and Assistant Professor of Business
Brock School of Business, Samford University
800 Lakeshore Drive, Birmingham, AL 35229
Tel: 205 726-2931  Fax: 205 726-4555
lcharper at samford.edu
www.samford.edu/mba

From: Venable, John
Sent: Tuesday, October 20, 2009 12:31 PM
To: Harper, Larron
Subject: Business Elective Opportunity -- FINC525 Practicum in Financial Management

Larry, please forward this to the active MBAs.

There is an elective available to you which involves the active management of over $1.1 million of Samford's endowment. The Bulldog Investment Fund is managed by students. They organize by economic sector and hunt for attractive stocks to add to the portfolio. They also analyze the existing portfolio to determine whether the investments are still attractive. Oral and written presentation are made, and private votes taken on proposals. At the end of the semester, the managers make a presentation to Samford's Board of Trustees.

For MBAs, there are no prerequisites. Most applicants have an interest in the area of investing, but few have actual experience. So, if you don't think you can do this, think again. Across four different classes, their combined performance would put the Fund in the top 2 percent of professionally managed funds.

Acceptance into the course is made by application and possible interview. The application form and instructions are attached. [Ignore the FINC450 designation; undergraduates participate too and FINC450 is their equivalent course number.] Decisions will be announced in early November.

I encourage each of you to evidence your interest by spending some time visiting one of our meetings held in the Dean's Conference Room on Mondays from 5:30pm to 8pm. If your schedule prohibits you from attending, I hope you will stop by my office (DBH323) and introduce yourself.

I will try to visit Dr. Jones' Finance class, also on Monday, to talk with you about the Fund and answer any questions you may have.

I hope you will join this singular experiential learning opportunity.
_____________________________________________________
John M. Venable
Assistant Professor
Faculty Advisor-Bulldog Investment Fund
Department of Economics, Finance and Quantitative Analysis
Brock School of Business - Samford University
800 Lakeshore Drive- Birmingham, AL 35229
jmvenabl at samford.edu
w: 205-726-2985 f:  205-726-2464
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