Daisy Ru
Doha: A Carnegie Mellon University (CMU-Q) student recently won the Refinitiv Portfolio Management Competition, Middle East and Africa edition, beating competitors from 17 universities from seven countries.
Daisy Ru, a third-year Business Administration student, bagged the first place in the Refinitiv Portfolio Management Competition, Middle East and Africa edition.
She said: “Our faculty are so amazing and supportive. Professor O’Brien and Professor Serkan in particular helped me to improve my presentation and share my strategy in the most efficient way.”
Serkan Akguc is an assistant teaching professor of finance at CMU-Q, and John O’Brien, who retired in December 2021, was a Carnegie Mellon associate professor of accounting and experimental economics.
For his part, CMU-Q Dean, Michael Trick said: “The Business Administration program at Carnegie Mellon focuses on decision-making based in quantitative analysis. Daisy has embraced this approach, and I am so pleased to see how well she did against talented, experienced competitors from the region.”
The competition challenged students to build a portfolio of S&P 500 companies and mana
Doha: Carnegie Mellon University in Qatar (CMU-Q) student Daisy Ru won the Refinitiv Portfolio Management Competition, Middle East and Africa edition. The competition included competitors from 17 universities in seven countries.
The competition challenged students to build a portfolio of S&P 500 companies and manage it over several weeks. The top ten students were selected to present their strategy to a panel of judges. Ru scored at the top of the field, edging out the second-place competitor by only a fraction of a point.
Michael Trick, dean of CMU-Q, congratulated Ru on her exceptional performance: “The business administration program at Carnegie Mellon focuses on decision-making based in quantitative analysis. Daisy has embraced this approach, and I am so pleased to see how well she did against talented, experienced competitors from the region.”
Ru is a third-year business administration student who has a concentration in business analytics.
“Our faculty are so amazing and supportive. Professor O’Brien and Professor Serkan in particular helped me to improve my presentation and share my strategy in the most efficient way,” Ru said.
Serkan Akguc is an assistant teaching professor of finance at CMU-Q, and John O’Brien, who retired in December 2021, was a Carnegie Mellon associate professor of accounting and experimental economics.
ge it over several weeks. The top ten students were then selected to present their strategy to a panel of judges. Ru scored at the top of the field, edging out the second placer by only a fraction of a point. Moreover, nearly all of her fellow competitors are in graduate school, or their final year of undergraduate studies.
