Preliminary meeting and Sharing of Ideas on the proposed GBS Investment club

Hi All,
It would be a good idea if we all get to gather and discuss about forming a student initiated Investment club at the GBS.

The idea of the club would be to improve members'understanding of the science/art of Investment and the Investment management Industry, with help of professors and experts in GBS (and outside) and to help members develop practical investment skills and test them in the markets.
The above would in the long run facilitate access to career opportunities in the investment industry.(in a nut shell basically meet every month(online/offline) and discuss about the current state of markets and also on Investment opportunities(after all as MGEE prof was telling us in just about a year we all would be MBA' and hence 'stinking rich').We can also take it offline and have a facebook page/blog on which one could discuss on these lines.)

The most important value which we would gain in this is that it would give us all a chance to apply in real life the concepts we have so far learnt(also what we will be learning).The club would also try to educate members by organizing events such as financial Boot Camps, Speakers Series, and advanced industry workshops. It would also be a good idea if in the long run we could evolve a GBSI ( Goethe Business School Global Investment Index -Sounds really ambitioous and flashy right!) an Index that would track global investment opportunities! Knowing that the GBS has a real bunch of extremely talented people(across all courses) I wont be surprised if this index turns out to be on the watchlist of Global Investors and come out with an annual or half yearly publication.

Such a club can also be used with help from the corporate relationship team to connects prospective employers with some of the brightest and most eager MBA graduates in the world.We should also try to organize trips to Borse Platz.


Those interested in volunteering/being a part of this club please do drop in for the first meet scheduled on December 1st after the MAEC Class needless to add this thing will work only if there are a lot of diverse intelligent minds getting to gather(will confirm venue after consulting and taking permission from Operations/GBS).

Please do bring your laptops as well for the first meeting ,Since if we have the time and are interested,I plan to conduct a very interesting 'live' Investment game(thanks to Ogive Technologies) that would last for about 40 minutes.

Cheers
Venkat


P.S: after the first meeting we should be able to take things to a logical end and submit a proposal to GBS asking for their Ideas/Support as well, knowing them I am sure they would encourage such student driven activities.

P.P.S: i have set up a Facebook RSVP page for this event and have invited all, please do add names if I have inadvertently left out some one(not all are yet on FB)