{"id":5228,"date":"2020-02-13T10:33:37","date_gmt":"2020-02-13T15:33:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/business-council\/?p=5228"},"modified":"2023-03-20T15:39:00","modified_gmt":"2023-03-20T19:39:00","slug":"student-managed-investment-fund-beats-the-sp-index","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/business-council\/2020\/02\/13\/student-managed-investment-fund-beats-the-sp-index\/","title":{"rendered":"Student-Managed Investment Fund Beats the S&#038;P Index"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" style=\"object-position: 46.72% 50.2935%\" src=\"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/business-council\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/425\/2020\/02\/HawkCapital_Students-300x225.png\" alt=\"Hawk Capital Students\" class=\"wp-image-5361\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/business-council\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1217\/2020\/02\/HawkCapital_Students-300x225.png 300w, https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/business-council\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1217\/2020\/02\/HawkCapital_Students-280x210.png 280w, https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/business-council\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1217\/2020\/02\/HawkCapital_Students-320x240.png 320w, https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/business-council\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1217\/2020\/02\/HawkCapital_Students-360x270.png 360w, https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/business-council\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1217\/2020\/02\/HawkCapital_Students-150x113.png 150w, https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/business-council\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1217\/2020\/02\/HawkCapital_Students.png 518w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><br>The Hawk Capital Student-Managed Fund (SMIF) was up 36.4 percent in 2019, outperforming its benchmark, the S&amp;P 500 Index, by 5.1 percent. At the end of the year, Hawk Capital had positions in nineteen equity securities and one exchange-traded fund, ranging from 11 to 2 percent of the portfolio. Significant holdings in Apple, Microsoft, Google, Intel, and Disney were major contributors to the stellar performance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The LHBS SMIF is run as a finance course, Hawk Capital (BF 452). Managing an equity portfolio of some $300,000 provides students with real-world security analysis and portfolio management experience. They analyze industries in technology, finance, energy, communications, consumer cyclicals and non-durables, and healthcare and are assigned a diversity of roles, learning state-of-the art techniques in security valuation, portfolio and risk management, and optimization while replicating the real-time, hands-on environment of a professional \u201cbuy side\u201d investment firm.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"610\" src=\"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/business-council\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/425\/2020\/02\/HawkCapital_Performance-Chart-1024x610.png\" alt=\"HawkCapital_Performance Chart\" class=\"wp-image-5360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/business-council\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1217\/2020\/02\/HawkCapital_Performance-Chart-1024x610.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/business-council\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1217\/2020\/02\/HawkCapital_Performance-Chart-300x179.png 300w, https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/business-council\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1217\/2020\/02\/HawkCapital_Performance-Chart-768x457.png 768w, https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/business-council\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1217\/2020\/02\/HawkCapital_Performance-Chart-1120x667.png 1120w, https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/business-council\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1217\/2020\/02\/HawkCapital_Performance-Chart-560x334.png 560w, https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/business-council\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1217\/2020\/02\/HawkCapital_Performance-Chart-280x167.png 280w, https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/business-council\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1217\/2020\/02\/HawkCapital_Performance-Chart-320x191.png 320w, https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/business-council\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1217\/2020\/02\/HawkCapital_Performance-Chart-640x381.png 640w, https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/business-council\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1217\/2020\/02\/HawkCapital_Performance-Chart-360x214.png 360w, https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/business-council\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1217\/2020\/02\/HawkCapital_Performance-Chart-150x89.png 150w, https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/business-council\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1217\/2020\/02\/HawkCapital_Performance-Chart.png 1348w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Hawk Capital Student-Managed Fund (SMIF) was up 36.4 percent in 2019, outperforming its benchmark, the S&amp;P 500 Index, by 5.1 percent. At the end of the year, Hawk Capital had positions in nineteen equity securities and one exchange-traded fund, ranging from 11 to 2 percent of the portfolio. 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