Carnegie Mellon Qatar student tops MENA portfolio management competition

Daisy Ru, a third-year Business Administration student, bagged the first place in the Refinitiv Portfolio Management Competition, Middle East and Africa edition. 

A Carnegie Mellon University (CMU-Q) Daisy Ru, recently won the Refinitiv Portfolio Management Competition, Middle East and Africa edition. She beat competitors from 17 universities from seven countries, winning first place, a report in The Peninsula, Qatar, says.

Daisy Ru, a third-year Business Administration student, bagged the first place in the Refinitiv Portfolio Management Competition, Middle East and Africa edition. Nearly all of her fellow competitors are in graduate school, or their final year of undergraduate studies.

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 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.

The CMU-Q Dean, Michael Trick said: “The Business Administration programme at Carnegie Mellon focuses on decision-making based on 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 manage it over several weeks. 

The top ten students were then selected to present their strategy to a panel of judges. Ru scored with top marks, edging out the second-place competitor by only a fraction of a point.

Ru is a third-year business administration student who has a specialisation 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.

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