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The Competition

Our mission is to improve diversity and access to financial services careers for young people through simulating investment analysis and teamwork.

The series starts with a fast paced tour of the roles available to graduates in the city, and simulates equities trading in the form of a stock picking competition by one of our speakers. A second more detailed lecture on “what moves a share price”  completes students basic knowledge enabling teams to choose a balanced portfolio of investments in retail shares taking account of the prevailing economic environment.

To finish, a short written report explaining their choice of investments is then required for each participant to receive a Certificate of Attendance – demonstrating an awareness of and exposure to financial services to prospective employers or educators and even the DofE as a Skill.

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JT Founder Marc’s investment career began at an early age and he famously used his school old pay-phone to buy and sell shares before working his way up on dealing floors to be a Director of an Investment Bank specialising in the Retail Sector. He later launched and floated his own investment management plc with over £1bn client assets under management in the UK and Guernsey as CEO.

Marc has acted as broker to Tesco, Wal-Mart, and several other retailers and worked the then new hedge-fund trading desk at Kleinwort turning over $100m/day before launching several innovative funds in the Channel Islands and becoming one of the youngest AiM CEO’s to IPO.

Through this competition, Marc’s aim is to improve the diversity of finance applicants, helping unlock doors into the City for as many students as possible in lieu of rare work experience placements.

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The perfect opportunity to learn more about stocks!

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It increased my communication skills massively

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The competition was very useful and helped my personal statement

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Trading in real life which was an interesting and great experience

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I know more about what a career in finance is like - hearing real experiences in the sector was really insightful

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I have a better knowledge than I did before about how the stock market works

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The Junior Trader programme helps pupils develop their knowledge and experience in trade and finance.

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We have grown over the last 15 years. As a not-for-profit project committed to delivering real world experience in financial services to students, there are costs involved not all. We rely on our Financial Institution Partners to provide access to their firms freely through sponsorship of schools’ entry where needed.

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