Daisy Ru, a student at Carnegie Mellon University in Qatar (CMU-Q), a Qatar Foundation partner university, has won the Refinitiv Portfolio Management Competition, Middle East and Africa edition. There were competitors from 17 universities in seven countries.
The contestants had 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.
Ru is a third-year business administration student who has a concentration in business analytics. Nearly all of her fellow competitors are in graduate school, or their final year of undergraduate studies.
The contestants had 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.
Ru is a third-year business administration student who has a concentration in business analytics. Nearly all of her fellow competitors are in graduate school, or their final year of undergraduate studies.