The UCONN Opportunity Fund Project

The UCONN Opportunity Fund Project was initiated to broaden and deepen the access our students have to hands-on experiential learning around investing. Its genesis was when Steve Wilson joined the faculty of the business school at UCONN as the Director of the Investment Management Initiative within the finance department. When asked about this project, Steve said, I have taken on this role after 43 years of managing institutional equities for a long array of leading organizations both here in the US and In Europe. My mission is two-fold, to serve as a bridge for the students between the textbook and Wall Street and to increase access for students earlier in their academic careers to the powerful experiential learning experience of managing real money in the stock market. To that end, I created The Opportunity Fund Project. This program is a monumental advancement for the school, creating a younger and more diverse cohort to train as investors, as it is open to all students. T...