Mutual Fund Project Sheet
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This project will give you and your partner the opportunity to manage a stock mutual fund of your own creation for the next ten weeks.  This fund will be comprised of a mixture of stock holdings selected by you and your partner. Your goal is to increase the value of your fund as much as possible over the length of the project.

Here are some of the basic guidelines for the project:

  • Each pair will start with $1 million
  • All stocks held must be traded on either the NYSE or the NASDAQ
  • Each pair will come up with a legitimate professional name for their fund.
  • Transactions (buying or selling the stock that is in your fund) can be carried out on Mondays and Thursdays - each transaction made after 3/04/04 must be documented by a transaction slip signed by myself or one of the TA's.  You will be turning in all of your transaction slips with your final project.
  • Each transaction carried out after 3/04/04 will carry a $500 fee charged against the assets in your fund.
  • You will be responsible for charting the weekly value of your fund on an Excel spreadsheet you will be creating and maintaining in class.  This spreadsheet will contain the number of shares of each stock that you hold, as well as weekly price updates.  Any dividends that are paid by the stocks you are holding will be added to the overall value of your fund, and these should also be reflected in your spreadsheet.
  • Overall fund holdings will be posted weekly on this website so that you can track the performance of your fund against the others.
  • Your goal is to beat the indexes, you want your fund to outperform the NASDAQ and the NYSE (as well as the funds of all your classmates, of course)
  • You will be turning in your spreadsheet, your transaction slips, and an analysis of why each stock you held performed the way that it did