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.”
– unknown
“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
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