Taking stock

A record 110 teams of students were out in force to test their investing skills in an annual stock-picking competition.

The Singapore Exchange centre in Shenton Way.
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Plenty of students are keen to pick up investing skills but reservations about insufficient capital, the weight of assignments during academic terms and social commitments usually put such plans on the back burner.

But that did not deter around 400 students from trying their hand at the SGX-NUS Stock Pitch Competition held in February.

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A version of this article appeared in the print edition of The Sunday Times on May 13, 2018, with the headline Taking stock. Subscribe