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Keele Management School News l Summer2015

Success for KMS students
in Bloomberg competitions
MSc Financial Risk Management students from Keele Management School, Todor Penchev and Savvas Ioannou,
won the Inter-University Trade-Idea Investment Competition using the Bloomberg Professional Platform.
MSc Financial Risk Management students Todor Penchev and
Savvas Ioannou proved their skill in the use of the Bloomberg
Professional Platform by winning the Bloomberg InterUniversity Competition. Each competing university team was
given a notional cash allowance of £500,000 to invest into the
universe of stocks from FTSE 100, S & P 500 and Euro Stoxx 50
market indices. All trades were made in real time and at current
market prices using the Bloomberg Professional Platform
which made this experience very similar to real-world trading.
Participating teams were also asked to provide comments
on each trade which reflected the type of analysis that
they used: fundamental, quantitative or technical; which
Bloomberg functions they used, and any other supporting
documents and analytical reasoning for their trade decisions.

The performance was measured using the team’s Portfolio
Total Return. Todor and Savvas made a profit of £4,777 and
obtained 0.96% in Portfolio Total Return.
As part of their prize, they were invited to lunch with experts
and managers from Bloomberg European Headquarters in
London on 17th April 2015.
The School’s own annual KMS Bloomberg competition
was won this year by Financial Risk Management student
Paul Ndikum Fru, with 2nd prize going to Anthony Alles
(also Financial Risk Management) and third prize to
Finance student Chung Yeung. Here they are pictured with
Dr Alena Audzeyeva and Professor Robin Bladen-Hovell
receiving their certificates.