Investment club garners national recognition

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LAKE SUPERIOR STATE UNIVERSITY

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Lake Superior State University's Investment Club and their faculty advisor, accounting professor Gerry Root, are thumbs up and all smiles after their stock portfolio took top honors at an international asset management competition held last month in New York City.

The club won first place in the core style portfolio undergraduate division during the Global Asset Management Education II Forum, beating out 154 other undergraduate and graduate teams from schools from all over the world.

Pictured in the first row from left (with home towns) are Tim Moran (Westland, Mich.) and Brenna Moher (Sault Ste. Marie, Mich.); row two, Quinton LaCrosse (Dafter, Mich.), Allison Walsh (Sault Ste. Marie, Mich.), Prof. Gerald Root, Austin McKay (Toronto, Ont.), and Elaine Oberle (Sault Ste. Marie, Mich.); back row, Fausto Astudillo Caicho (Sault Ste. Marie, Mich.), Erin Anderson-Scott (Hamilton, New Zealand), Andrew Sonnevil (Decatur, Mich.), and Eric Drapluk (Pembroke Pines, Fla.).

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(PHOTO: LSSU/John Shibley)