ifs Student Investor Challenge 2011/12
The national final is done and dusted – congratulations to Surplus Value from Pate's Grammar School in Cheltenham, winners of this year's ifs Student Investor Challenge! Read all about the 2012 national final here.
You can see the list of regional finalists here, or check out everyone's final standings in online phase of the game here.
The ifs Student Investor Challenge is the UK's premier investment competition for UK students aged 14-19 that offers winners a whole host of prizes, including an all expenses paid educational trip to New York. Have you got the skill to invest £100,000 and produce a winning portfolio? Trading in the ifs Student Investor Challenge is now over, and the top teams are currently going head-to-head in the live regional finals.
Resources for teachers
Activity sheets, posters and teacher's notes can be found here.
Would you like a visit to your school to explain the practices of
share trading and investing?
We'd be happy to send along a member of the team to demonstrate how the challenge and investing works. This will be the perfect opportunity to have your questions about the competition process and share trading answered.
Just fill in the request form and we'll contact you to arrange a suitable date and time.
"We have all really enjoyed taking part in the ifs Student Investor Challenge and have gained hugely from the experience. It was a case of third time lucky for us today and it goes to show that hard work and perseverance pays off in the end."
"We still can't quite believe we've won and that we're going to New York. This has been such a great experience, from our first share trade to today's final, it's been a real learning curve and we would encourage everyone to get involved"
"The ifs Student Investor Challenge has been an invaluable aid in helping us prepare our economics students, not just for their examinations, but also for the real world. Their financial awareness, their overall understanding of our economy and the wide-ranging skills needed for the presentation will stand by them for the rest of their lives."
