{"id":361,"date":"2014-08-22T14:47:10","date_gmt":"2014-08-22T14:47:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.tntech.edu\/visions\/?p=361"},"modified":"2018-02-08T13:37:08","modified_gmt":"2018-02-08T13:37:08","slug":"finance-students-outperform-wall-street-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.tntech.edu\/visions\/finance-students-outperform-wall-street-again\/","title":{"rendered":"Finance students outperform Wall Street, again"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.tntech.edu\/visions\/files\/2014\/08\/TVAInvestmentComp_20MAR1400005.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-475\" style=\"padding-left: 10px\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.tntech.edu\/visions\/files\/2014\/08\/TVAInvestmentComp_20MAR1400005.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"363\" height=\"242\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nFor the fifth time, Tech\u2019s investment class won the Tennessee Valley Authority\u2019s annual investment challenge and outperformed Wall Street with its stock purchases. Twenty-five colleges and universities participate in the competition, which began 16 years ago.<\/p>\n<p>Undergraduates and graduate students pitch and monitor investments and news that may affect market performance.<\/p>\n<p>By investing in Tesla, biotechnology and industrials, the class of fewer than 10 students earned a 47.6 percent return. By contrast, Standard &amp; Poor\u2019s 500 index earned a 32.4 percent return.<\/p>\n<div style=\"clear:both\">\n&nbsp;\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For the fifth time, Tech\u2019s investment class won the Tennessee Valley Authority\u2019s annual investment challenge and outperformed Wall Street with its stock purchases. Twenty-five colleges and universities participate in the competition, which began 16 years ago. Undergraduates and graduate students pitch and monitor investments and news that may affect market performance. By investing in Tesla, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-361","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-fall14"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.tntech.edu\/visions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/361","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.tntech.edu\/visions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.tntech.edu\/visions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.tntech.edu\/visions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.tntech.edu\/visions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=361"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.tntech.edu\/visions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/361\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1201,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.tntech.edu\/visions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/361\/revisions\/1201"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.tntech.edu\/visions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=361"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.tntech.edu\/visions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=361"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.tntech.edu\/visions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=361"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}