WSU finance professor Rick Sias and finance student Stacee Wilson in the Cougar
Investment Fund trading room in Todd Hall. (Photo by Robert Hubner, WSU Photo
Services)
Investment Fund trading room in Todd Hall. (Photo by Robert Hubner, WSU Photo
Services)
PULLMAN – Stock symbols and percentages march across a long ticker screen, but it’s not a Wall Street brokerage firm. It’s the fourth floor of Todd Hall, and the eyes monitoring the stock market belong to undergraduates managing the Cougar Investment Fund.
The students invest $1 million of the university’s endowment in a large capitalization equity portfolio. Under the supervision of Rick Sias, WSU finance professor and Gary P. Brinson chair of investment management, the class has outperformed the S&P 500 since 2001.
Read more in the spring issue of Washington State Magazine here.