Bahrain Bourse kicks-off TradeQuest Challenge
MANAMA, November 23, 2015
Bahrain Bourse (BHB) has officially kicked-off the TradeQuest Challenge for universities for the year 2015-2016.
The kick-off meeting was held at Bahrain Bourse’s premises, where all participating students, teams’ advisors, and investment advisors, who will monitor and coach the teams during the program, attended the event, said a statement.
During the meeting, a detailed presentation was made to explain to the participants the objectives of the program, the program’s timeline, rules, and approach, it said.
This year’s TradeQuest programme includes four university and educational institutions teams - Ahlia University, Bahrain Institute of Banking and Finance, Bahrain Polytechnic, Royal University for Women. The total number of participants in the programme is more than 40 participants.
TradeQuest is a simulated business-education partnership programme that focuses on investment trading in world financial markets, which operated for the first time in Bahrain in 1996 in co-operation with financial institutions and educational parties.
The programme aims at stimulating relevant learning through realistic experience by learning the rules and regulations implemented in financial markets, analysing and selecting shares, and managing a portfolio of investment instruments listed at New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) and Bahrain Bourse.
TradeQuest consists of three trading periods where universities are required to make a presentation at the end of each trading period in front of the Investment Review Committee to outline their performance, objectives, and strategies.
Several financial and banking institutions in Bahrain are sponsoring TradeQuest and taking part in the program by conducting lectures and workshops of the programme, and assigning investment advisors for the participating teams and they are: Esterad Investment Company, Mumtalakat, Tamkeen and United Gulf Bank. - TradeArabia News Service
