Five Stamford-based University of Connecticut business graduate students are celebrating their victory in the 2021 Bloomberg Global Trading Challenge, in which they beat out about 500 teams from around the world.
The students, whose trading portfolio passed a Bloomberg benchmark by nearly $470,000, are Sayem Lincoln, Justin Keish, Matt Ciaburro, Varun Katari and Jayabhushan Nallakannu. They were told of their first place finish on Nov. 23.
The students, all studying financial risk management, beat out a team from a university in Saudi Arabia by more than $100,000.