MICHIGAN
TECH STUDENTS APPEAR ON "POWER LUNCH"HOUGHTON—Members of Michigan Tech's championship investment team appeared on CNBC's finance program "Power Lunch." Students in Dean Johnson's Applied Portfolio Management Program were featured on Wednesday, Feb. 19.
The team members are Lisa Rajala, of Houghton; Peter D. Heydlauff, of Chelsea; Autumn Chalker of Buckley; Dawit Dagmawi,of Versoix, Switzerland; Chad Habermehl, of Rogers City; Christoph Gasser, of Thun, Switzerland, Oren Bottoms, of Hibbing, Minn.; and Jeremy Resmer, of Shelby Township.
"This is another in a long string of successes for the students in this
program," said Johnson, an assistant professor in MTU's School of Business
and Economics. "They deserve a lot of credit."Last year, students in the Applied Portfolio Management Program beat out dozens of student investors from business schools across the U.S. and Canada to win the second annual RISE Symposium in the Blended category. As one of the three winning teams, they opened the Nasdaq stock exchange in Times Square and appeared on the CNBC finance program "Squawk Box."
Since then, they have been featured in Business Week, and two student
team members placed first and third in the Pine Mountain Music Festival Stock
Picking Contest.The Applied Portfolio Management Program lets students manage an investment portfolio of real money that has grown to over $300,000, largely from alumni donations but also from the careful management of the student investors.