User:FEP Finance Club/sandbox

FEP Finance Club was formed in March 2012 by MSc in Finance students from University of Porto – FEP. Club´s main goal is to promote an approach from its members to the world of professional finance, both enhancing skills and promoting University of Porto MSc in Finance course within the finance community. FEP Finance Club was established as the University´s “Finance & Investment Club”, following the tradition of major business schools. Although, since the beginning, founders and remaining members see the Club as a platform to develop new ideas and activities.

Since its foundation, the FEP Finance Club has four key areas of action:

1) Sharing Finance: this field positions the Club as a manager of new projects & studies suggested by parties of both the course - students, institutional partners and professors - and the professional community. The goal is to provide students with research skills and the ability to apply their knowledge to a real business environment, while developing critical thinking and teamwork skills.

2) Personal & Professional Development: this segment commits the Club to help MSc in Finance students managing their professional and academic careers. Scheduling informal meetings and seminars with successful professionals, sharing information about international job opportunities and academic graduations are some of the tasks developed.

3) Financial Markets: since the Club aims to stimulate an interest on students about financial markets, deepening their expertise in equity and markets research, this field of action develops two parallel projects: - An Investment Club through which participants conduct presentations of their own reports and manage an investment portfolio. - A Stock Exchange Competition to all school´s students, sponsored by a virtual trading platform developer.

4) External Relations: this segment aims to strengthen relationships between the academic and the professional world. It includes tasks like organizing business meetings and reporting to the community and media all the Club-related activities.