NEW YORK, NY--(Marketwired - Apr 30, 2015) - 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 2014-15 All-America Student Analyst Competition.
Complete results can be found online at institutionalinvestor.com.
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
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About Mark My Media
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 www.markmymedia.com
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