The FLAME Investment Lab (FIL) aims to provide its student members skills to help them improve their understanding of the financial markets. It is a medium that bridges theory with practice. FIL tries to mimic and show, as closely as possible, how investment decisions are made in the real world.
FLAME Investment Lab - The Epicentre Of Value Investing In India
FIL organizes interactive sessions with investment gurus like Rakesh Jhunjhunwala, Madhusudan Kela, Ramesh Damani, Raamdeo Agrawal, Sanjoy Bhattacharya and Chetan Parikh amongst others. This forum gives students the unique opportunity to interact with giants in the investment world and benefit from their insights. Given the importance of investment in today’s world, students of all majors and NOT only finance are encouraged to attend so as to bring intellectual diversity and multi-disciplinary viewpoints to the lab.
The FIL program entails classroom learning, book reviews, case studies, presentations, industry interactions, investor conferences and most importantly the stock market challenge. Even though classroom content includes topics like financial statement analysis, valuation, behavioural finance and technical analysis, the emphasis of the FIL is on personal initiative and sharing content with other members for mutual and inclusive growth. Reviewing investment-related classics, analyzing successful and unsuccessful company case studies, participating in investor conferences and competing in research challenges enables members to apply academic learning to the investment world.
Once equipped with these tools, student members channelize it to the stock market challenge. The challenge allows members to invest in the stock market from a corpus made available to them. Investment recommendation presentations are made to a committee who judges the rationale of the investment and decides whether the particular investment should be made. The profit generated from these transactions would be credited and transferred to the respective students who generate such profits. Loss, if any, will be borne by the lab and not by the members. The FLAME Investment Lab is a platform to harness a student’s investment acumen, help them understand risk, and analyze the market as a whole before they become active participants.
The CFA Institute Research Challenge is a global competition, which tests the analytic, valuation, report writing, and presentation skills of management students. Last year nearly 2500 students from over 546 institutes in 45 countries participated and learned best practices in equity research from leading industry experts.Local CFA societies host and launch local competitions involving teams of three to five business and finance students from participating institutes who work directly with a local company in researching and preparing company analysis.FLAME students won the 1st position in the western region in 2012, beating many reputed and renowned Business Schools.
The aim of the Entrepreneurship Lab is to give the students hands-on experience about the creation, inception and management of an entrepreneurship venture by providing them initial seed capital. The Lab aims to prepare students to become competent in the areas of management viz. finance, accounting, marketing and production. The Lab helps build students’ capacity to think and develop an entrepreneurial idea for a micro enterprise. It also strives to develop effective teamwork abilities in students.
Realizing that improved industry interface offers many benefits to the learner as well as knowledge institutions, a new course on DRIVERS has been introduced. It focuses on improving industry interface. At the end of the course, students develop expertise in selected sectors and promising companies.
AXIS 20:20 is an annual corporate meet organized by AXIS Capital. Selected FLAME students get the opportunity to attend the meet. Students interact with industry leaders and get an understanding of current economic and industry trends. They also gain insight from interacting with other institutional investors, learning from their analytical abilities and research skills.