Terese Kelly Investment Group
This isn’t practice. The money is real. The investors are serious. The decisions are yours.
You are pitching a company to an investment group that is going to decide whether to buy shares for their portfolio.
As you stand in front of the board, looking like the consummate professional in your requisite dark suit, you roll through your analysis: industry factors, revenue growth, direct competition comparison, valuation, key ratios and statistics, growth rates, potential risks and, finally, your recommendation to buy shares at current market price. Your investors grill you on debt-to-equity, competitive landscape and market opportunity, and you field the questions expertly, growing in confidence with each answer.
In the end, you get a unanimous decision from the board to invest. Success! But, really, it’s just a regular day in the life of a student in the Terese Kelly Investment Group.
Graduates who participated in the Terese Kelly Investment Group have garnered roles at top firms, including:
- Goldman Sachs
- Deloitte
- Citi
- Fitch Rating
- PwC
- Bloomberg
- BlackRock
- National Fuel
Gain exposure to executive boardroom meetings during exciting off-campus visits to financial capitals of the world, like New York City, Boston and Chicago, and such firms as:
- Quent Capital
- Treasury Partners
- Hutchin Hill Capital
- Barclays Investment Bank
- Charles Schwab & Co.
- Solus Alternative Asset Management
- Bloomberg
- Morgan Stanley Wealth Management
- UBS Financial Services
The fund is structured as an endowment owned by the Department of Finance, so your investment success translates instantaneously into resources available to you, your faculty and your peers.
- The Terese Kelly Investment Group is an independent study course with a full academic year commitment.
- Membership is by invitation for high-performing students who demonstrate academic success and a commitment to a career in financial markets.
- Students serve in leadership and analyst roles and earn 1.5 elective credits in both the fall and spring semesters. Leaders of the fund gain valuable experience running an investment management company, while analysts focus on conducting detailed valuations of companies in different sectors of the economy with the goal of finding undervalued companies.
- Investment decisions are up to the students.
- Twice a year, students present reports to the board about fund performance and rationale for fund decisions and management.
- Terese E. Kelly, BA ’68, MLS ’73
- Fouad Azzam, MBA ’99, General Partner, Life Sciences Partners
- Chris Buonafede, MBA ’96, Financials Co-Sector Head, Holocene Advisors LP
- John Canty III, BS ’04, Senior Vice President, Roosevelt & Cross Inc.
- Mary Collins Sanborn, BA ’75, CEL ’98, President and CEO, Collins Advisors
- Ronald Coombs, BS ’85, Chief Financial Officer - SPAC Operations Group, Navigation Capital Partners
- Gregg S. Fisher, BS ’92, Founder and Portfolio Manager, Quent Capital
- James T. Goede, BA ’07, Chief Financial Officer, Everyrealm Inc.
- Thomas Insalaco, BS ’08, Business Valuation, MPI Business Valuation & Advisory
- Kapil Kashyap, BS ’81, MBA ’86, Principal, Kashyap Asset Management
- Jayson Katz, BS ’15, Investment Associate, Launch NY
Admissions
150 Jacobs Management Center
Buffalo, NY 14260-4000
Tel: 716-645-3204
Contact Admissions
Student Services
203 Alfiero Center
Buffalo, NY 14260-4000
Tel: 716-645-3200
mgtgsrv@buffalo.edu
Amazing opportunities for hands-on learning do not happen without the generous support of people like Terese Kelly.
Anytime a candidate is able to step into an interview with real-life experiences, they are at an advantage. Working as part of a real-money investment fund provides practical application to help prepare UB students for a job in financial services. The opportunity that Terese Kelly has provided to business students is outstanding.
Brian McCallion ’01, CPA, CFA. Vice President, Goldman Sachs.