If someone tells you how to become rich in a day, don’t believe that person. However, if experienced students guide you on how to invest through a year-long span, that’s Investor Club, SSE for you.
Aiming to focus on giving the members a better insight into financial literacy, Tanuj Sahgal, a second-year student and the Head of Investors Club, leverages his experience and expertise in this regard. Investing since the age of 18 and having completed modules from NSE, makes him the ideal sailor of this ship!
With such immense knowledge and experience, the club has ambitious plans for the academic year 2020-21. Here’s a glimpse and a more detailed insight into the club activities:
1) Investor’s Club aims to uncover the power of compounding, understand the value of money, and know why it is essential to generate a reasonable rate of return.
2) It understands the types of investors and identifies them in the market, their goals, and whether they are aligned with the long-term rather than just focusing on making a quick buck.
3) The club aims to focus on long term investing and capital appreciation through the long term.
4) It focuses on discovering the risks of the financial markets and analyses various asset classes.
5) It aims to create structured discussions with the members on the analysis of buzzing stocks in the market through different resources including annual reports, using ratios such as P/E, P/BV, ROA, ROE, PEG, EPS.
6) Investor Club aims at understanding stock screeners online which helps students understand which aspects should be considered while picking a stock.
While intense financial jargon and buzzwords such as Derivatives, Hedge Funds, Options, and others might confuse you, do not fret because the Investor’s Club has got your back!
Through detailed discussions at a later stage, the club also aims to delve into deeper financial markets and cover intrinsic details once the basics are covered. Lastly, the club attempts to set up a portfolio for the club, by pooling the resources of the entire club and investing the pooled amount in the market, which makes the Investor Club extremely innovative and different from all the other clubs.