The Stock Market Game - Corporate Challenge
Corporate Challenge
Corporate teams compete to be the best in The Stock Market Game - Corporate Challenge!
The Stock Market Game™ – Corporate Challenge has concluded! Congratulations to Team Johnny and the Fontaines (Advantage Futures) on your first place win!
Thank you to the following companies for sponsoring the Stock Market Game program through the Corporate Challenge: Advantage Futures, Cabrera Capital Markets, Castle Bank, Citigroup Foundation, and Wells Fargo Foundation.
The program invites firms to put a corporate team together and play the game portion of the SMG program while competing against other corporate teams.
This is a new event that provides a hands-on opportunity to learn about a program that has shown success in students’ testing scores. The competition began in February and will conclude with an after-hours award reception in May.
- Team members manage a simulated investment portfolio
- Teams can be listed with either company name or a unique team name to maintain anonymity
- Game runs 10 to 15 weeks - the length of time of a school grading period
- The top teams receive awards at an award reception
- All stock trades placed during market hours receive real-time pricing
- Investments may include stocks, bonds and mutual funds
- Compare your portfolio values to 4th - 12th grade teams who compete against other schools throughout the state.
Benefits to companies
- Experience: Employees experience first-hand a program that works in the classroom
- Teamwork: Participation provides an opportunity for teamwork
- Volunteer: Companies have the option of sponsoring and/or connecting to a school, with short-term and long-term partnership possibilities
Get involved
Start planning now to have a team in the 2012-2013 SMG Corporate Challenge. Watch this page for updates on this year’s competition and for posting of registration information for next year’s Challenge.
Registration and payment can be made conveniently and safely online through PayPal. Choose from four sponsorship levels:
- Sell - $3000 (one corporate team plus a school sponsorship)
- Buy - $2000 (one corporate team)
- Award Reception - $1500 (after-hours event to recognize the top corporate teams)
- School sponsor - $1000 (sponsors a school to participate in the SMG program)
The Stock Market Game - Corporate Challenge Committee
Jeffrey Egan, HSBC Global Asset Management
Mike Algrim, Castle Bank
Greg Carroll, CME Group
Cynthia Lau, Cabrera Capital Markets, LLC
Gabe Martinez, Wells Fargo Advisors