Sales & Trading and Asset Management Club
About
STAM’s goal is to find a group of highly passionate and motivated students pursuing careers in Sales & Trading and Asset Management and place its students at financial institutions. Based on the experience of the primary contacts for this organization, recruitment for these positions in New York and Chicago is highly selective. To be successful, a student not only must learn the financial aspect, but also must engage in arduous networking and extra-cirricular work to demonstrate an intellectual curiosity toward the subject. Based on conversations with numerous alumni, they are only able to help so much – a student must also demonstrate they are polished and educated enough to be successful in an internship position.
Club members will develop in two ways: professionally and subject-specific. With the help of alumni (who are eager to help this organization), students will spend time improving networking skills and participate in outside case-studies to get a first-hand education.
At each weekly meeting (running 1 hour to 1.5 hours), half the time will be spent for each development purpose. Professional development will consist of resume editing, communication improvement, emailing practices, and do’s/dont’s of networking. The latter half of each session will consist of a discussion of weekly market movements (Dow, S&P, and commodities) and the drivers behind the movements. We will go through sell-side research reports and publish our own findings based on real-world data.
Students will also take the free Bloomberg Market Concepts course in the library to enhance their understanding for the markets. As the semester progresses, we will be speaking with alumni in S&T and Asset Management about their work/experiences, and get their perspectives on the markets to further enhance the education of our members.
During winter break sophomores will travel to New York City and Chicago to meet with the sales and trading and asset management divisions across numerous banks.
Our core goal: to increase the presence of badgers in the financial services industry.