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IFS Student Investor challenge

Congratulations to teamexcel [Akash Jhunjhunwala, Marios Kyriacou, Rohan Sheth, Kelvin Wong], who have won an all-expenses paid trip to New York following the National final of the International School of Finance Student Investor challenge.

The first stage was to trade a virtual £100,000 on the stock market - the team more than doubled their investment.  The second round was held in London - the team had to answer a series of questions about the financial markets.  Their success in that round took them to the National Final where they delivered a presentation judged by members of Deutsche Bank, Bloomberg and Foreign and Colonial Investment.  32,000 students had entered the first stage of the competition from around the country.