Laurier Graduate Student Investment Fund
The Laurier Graduate Student Investment Fund (LGSIF) provides the opportunity for our graduate students to gain hands-on experience in equity valuation and asset management. The fund follows a prudent investment strategy and adopts a value investment style in small cap stocks.
Students are selected to join LGSIF as analysts or portfolio managers and receive training to manage the fund under the supervision of faculty and industry professionals. All graduate students at Lazaridis School are eligible to apply.
“Stocks aren’t cheap and popular at the same time.”
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“Being a value investor means you look at the downside before looking at the upside.”
– Li Lu
“We worry top-down, but we invest bottom-up.”
– Seth Klarman
“You have to turn over a lot of rocks to find those little anomalies. You have to find the companies that are off the map – way off the map.”
– Warren Buffett
Portfolio Managers
Chun Yat Lai
Soham Hitesh Thakker
Equity Analysts
Linfan Deng
Rifat Islam
Vinay Makode
Srishti Singh
Minrui Xu
Jonathan Yosef
Fall 2023
Portfolio Managers
Ming Ju
Saachi Punjabi
Lingxiao Yuan
Equity Analysts
Ryan Antiochos
Yash Brahmbhatt
Yiwei Chen
Praduymna Chiplunkar
Chloé Cui
Batool Fatima
Perith Malebennur
Mohammed Saqib
Austin Tam
Spring 2023
Portfolio Managers
Luke Molnar
Deepesh Baburaj
Nimesh Singh
Equity Analysts
Kyla Li
Suyash Sharma
Evan Wang
Jinyang Wu
Fall 2022
Portfolio Managers
Alex Hendershot
Nimesh Singh
Minzhao Wu
Equity Analysts
Yi Guo
Lihan Liu
Shah Stavan
Xiaotian Xiang
Yaoxu Xiao
Tong Ye
2021/22
Portfolio Managers
Kola-Olawuyi, Ajibolaoluwa
Spiering, Kevin
Verma, Mallika
Equity Analysts
Dang, Thanh
Chen, Jiacheng
Chen, Jiaqi
Chen, Wenyan
Chen, Zhuo Yu
Gao, Peini
Jing, Chenlei
Li, Yitong
Li, Xiaoxuan
Liu, Mingfei
Wang, Hongbing
Xia, Xuan
Zhang, Jingru
Zhao, Jeffrey
2020/21
Portfolio Managers
- Chang, Xin
- Gaba, Zain
- Gharagozloo, Ramtin
- Luo, Xinbei
- Al Akhras, Mulham
Equity Analysts
- Gao, Chenxi
- Lam, Jonathan
- Leong, Joseph
- Lyu, Qingyang
- Mahmoudysepehr, Mohsen
- O'Brien Dave
- Shyam, Lathika
- Simon, Brad
- Sun, jiaqing
- Sun, Xiaoqing
- Talibov, Ali
- Wan, Jiayuan
- Yang, Pilu
- Zhang, Jiushen
- Zhi Li
2019/20
Portfolio Managers
- Blake Whiteley
- Kanan Rajbhara
- Yanzuo Li
Equity Analysts
- Andrew Bodo
- Jiali (Alisa) Zhan
- Mary Abousawan
- Ying Shao
- Zihang Liao
- Yao Lian
- Esther Adegoke
- Xiao (Dan) Tan
Risk Analysts
- Hongzhi Jiang
- Jiajun Huang
- Joshita D'Souza
2018/19
Portfolio Managers
- Simiao Wang
- Stephen Bang
- Xuesong Zhao
Equity Analysts
- Abbas Merchant
- Ahmed Aslam
- Aniket Shah
- Chelsea Zhu
- Cheng Xu
- Farhan Iftikhar
- Jiaxin Guo
- Jordan Barr
- Jubin Mathew
- Jyot Vohra
- Limin Xu
- Richard Kyerreboah Jnr.
- Shibo Gu
- Shishuang Li
- Yufei Gao
- Ziwei Chen
Risk Analysts
- Xue Yu
- Yangyang Xue
- Yunjie Luo
Macro Analysts
- Andrew MacDonald
- Jeff Guan
2017/18
Portfolio Managers
Equity Analysts
- Joaquin Villalba
- Kodi Lee
- Jing Guan
- Chenshuo Ye
- Wei-Che Hsu
- Shen Wang
- Umaima Humayun
- Jasdeep Mann
- Junhao Zhang
- Shengyu Zhang
Risk Analysts
- Yi Yang
- Ruiru Guo
- Yuanyuan Huang
2016/17
Portfolio Managers
- Anthony Tavella
- Shane Obata-Marusic
Analysts
- Akhtar, Samaiudin
- Ali, Sumaya
- Bhatti, Puneet
- Ford, Michael
- Fung, Kin
- Li, Menghua
- Liu, Yushan
- Lunscher, Eugene
- Michalagas, Dean-Andrew
- Nie, Guanghai
- Pan, Dai
- Plaunt, Andrew
- Ren, Xuejiao
- Ren, Zhonghao
- Tang, Weilun
- Tian, Chenyu
- Wang, Chaomin
- Wang, Lina
- Wang, Xueting
- Wang, Yuxuan
- Xing, Zhian
- Xue, Xinyuan
- Yang, Kang
- Yang, Wanzhen
- Yang, Xinyi
- Zeng, Ao
- Zhang, Jiaxun
- Zhang, Shuohan
- Zhang, Zhiyuan