Tuesday, December 1, 2015

This is a busy week for Marquette's AIM program (including 8 stock pitches on Friday)


As the end of the semester draws closer and winter is upon us, the activities within the AIM program are heating up. There will be three sets of visitors this week to the AIM program:

·        Jeffrey Bryden, CFA, is the Founder, President and Chief Investment Officer of JB Investment Management. His firm specializes in managing customized fixed income portfolios for institutions and selected individuals. Jeff will talk to Marquette students about portfolio management – as well as his firm’s fixed income investment process, strategy and investment philosophy.

·        John DeCaro, CFA, a Founding Principal and Portfolio Manager at Elementum Advisors - and Christopher Cebula, CFA, CAIA, and AIM program alumnus, a Portfolio Management Associate – will talk about collateralized natural event reinsurance investments.  Elementum has built an institutional quality alternative investment management firm that specializes in reinsurance and risk-linked investment strategies (with expertise in liquid cat-bonds and collateralized reinsurance investments).

·        Tom Eck, CFA, is a Founding Principal of Cortina Asset Management and has managed the Cortina Small Cap Opportunity strategy for institutional and high net worth clients since 2004. Cortina specializes in small cap portfolio management for public and private institutions, as well as high net worth individuals through offices in Milwaukee and New York.

Additionally, on Friday, December 4th, eight stocks will be pitched by AIM students. Beginning at 2:00 in Room 105 of Straz Hall (College of Business Administration), the AIM students will present the following stocks for consideration into the AIM Small Cap and International Equity Funds:

Student Presenter
Company Name
Ticker
Sector
Avery Flyte
Superior Uniform Group
SGC
Consumer Discretionary
Wenting (Mavis) Peng
Westpac Banking Corporation 
WBK
International Financial Services
Jack Kitzinger
Connecticut Water Service Inc.
CTWS
Utilities
Brendan O'Malley
Nomura Holdings, Inc.
NMR
International Financial Services
 
 
 
 
Clare McNamara
Carnival Plc.
CUK
International Consumer Discretionary
Conor Connelly
Sberbank of Russia
SBRCY
International Financial Services
Xuelin (Sara) Zhou
Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance
ARI
Financial Services
Colin Canfield
Cameco Corporation
CCJ
International Materials