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The meeting started off with Dingwei, our Publicity Chair, giving a market update. The Dow reached a five-year high. The Sequester, the cut in federal spending, took effect on March 1st and there is a lot of speculation on how this will affect the economy exactly.

Apple held its annual shareholders meeting today and Tim Cook spoke about the disappointment of shareholders in Apple’s current share price but urged everyone to focus on the long term and future profits and revenues.

We watched another interesting episode of Shark Tank.

Lise pitched a new stock, Michael Kors and we had a discussion on luxury goods.

See you all next week!

Dingwei did a quick market update at the start of the meeting!

Andrea discussed future events that OIG is planning. Some of them include:

-A proposed Skype event with an alum of the Class of 2007 to discuss negotiating a career path back to China. This event is not open to only Chinese students.

-A forum with alums working in Singapore, Hong Kong and London in management, finance, marketing and sales.

-A forum with an alum working in environmental consulting in Jakarta.

-A forum with an alum working in investment banking in Mexico City.

These events will be open to all students on campus and not just members of OIG. However, the events are still in the works but we will keep you posted!

Alisha did a review of our portfolio. She discussed some of the stocks we are planning on selling.

Lise pitched a stock: Huaneng Power International Ltd. Huaneng is one of the five largest power producers in China. It engages in development, construction and operation of large power plants.

The meeting ended at 10:00pm. See you all next week. Same place, Same time!

The link for signing up for resume critiquing and senior mentorship during out Career Networking Session on 02/13/2013 in Dalton 300 from 9pm to 10pm is pasted below. We encourage seniors from all majors and career interests to sign up!

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0ApJhnbjaUz58dHlpMUNnRmdCLWNUNkNwQW5HMHJkdXc#gid=0

Welcome back everyone!

Our first meeting of the year and semester was held in Taylor G and started at 9:10pm.

Andrea gave an overview of OIG’s schedule for the semester. She gave a summary of intended events and trips that OIG is planning for the semester.

Alisha gave a brief overview of investing. She talked about the meaning and importance of investing, the concept of compounding, types of instruments that we could invest it, and portfolios and diversification.

We watched an episode of Shark Tank to get an idea of real world investing and entrepreneurship.

Dingwei gave us a market update.

Yiwen pitched a stock: Ellie Mae Inc. and we will be looking further into it.

The meeting ended at 10:10pm.

 

 

 

 

 

 

The meeting started at 9:10 pm.

Alisha presided over the meeting in the absence of Andrea.

She talked about OIG’s plan to donate towards Hurricane Sandy relief and a possible phonathon to raise money. Then we went over the portfolio and saw changes in it that had occurred recently. Some members talked about how they felt about some of the stocks in the portfolio.

Wendy and Alisha took us through the Excel tutorial which was interesting and educational.

The meeting ended at 10:10 pm.

See you all next week!

We started the meeting at 9:00pm.

Andrea talked about the release of the new Ipad Mini by Apple and the decrease in the value of Apple’s stock.

Then we had the new Portfolio Management Committee take us through stocks that we may be investing in. Lise talked about HALO, Aly talked about Tempur-Pedic Intenrational Inc, Esther talked about New Oriental Education & Technology Group (EDU), Yiwen talked about Esterline Technologies Corporation (ESL), and Alisha spoke about Swift Transportation (SWFT). Alisha also gave us market updates.

Meetings ended at 10:00PM

The meeting started of at 9:10 pm.

Andrea started off by going over our portfolio. We talked about the stocks that we will be selling and then re-investing the funds into other stocks. We also reviewed some other stocks on the portfolio that have been performing poorly. We are hoping that these stocks do pick up!

We also learnt the meanings of some financial terms.

Then Andrea reviewed the stocks that the Adirondack Team is considering in investing in for the Adirondack Competition.

Andrea rounded up the meeting with talking about the BlackRock trip this Friday. She reminded all members about the proper mode of dressing and proper etiquette while there. Everyone’s looking forward to the trip.

The next General Body Meeting will be after Fall Break on the 24th of October. Same place, Same time. See you all then!

 

If you would like to request a donation from Owl Investment Group please  click here.

Donation Request forms are due by October 21st, 2012

Club presentations will be on Tuesday, October 23rd, 2012

* Detailed budget presentations must be turned in as PowerPoints by 5:00pm- Tuesday, October 23rd, 2012

Questions: please email oig.brynmawrcollege@gmail.com