Spring 2017 ETF Global® Portfolio Challenge - Final Leaderboard

Spring 2017 ETF Global® Portfolio Challenge - Final Leaderboard

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After 10 weeks of intense competition that was characterized by constant change atop our leaderboard, the Spring 2017 ETF Global® Portfolio Challenge has come to a close. Our fourth edition of the portfolio challenge brought in a new wave of talented college students from a diverse array of universities and academic backgrounds. Drawing students from 190 schools, 24 countries on 5 continents, this semester’s competition helped enlarge the portfolio challenge’s already broad global footprint and create highly competitive playing conditions.

Our contestants all began the semester with a virtual balance of $100,000 and with the task of constructing the best performing portfolio of ETFs. Students were afforded weekly rebalancing opportunities and were allowed to invest in a minimum of 4 and maximum of 10 ETFs at a time. Despite facing heavy competition all semester, these 5 select students were able to separate themselves from the rest of the field.

Please join us in congratulating the winners of the Spring 2017 ETF Global® Portfolio Challenge!

Name	Class	Degree	School	Return
Ethan O’Donnell	2018	Bachelors	St. John Fisher College	21.33%
Cole Smith	2018	Bachelors	St. John Fisher College	21.05%
Phat Huynh	2018	Bachelors	St. John Fisher College	18.27%
Carlin Lydon	2018	Bachelors	St. John Fisher College	17.95%
John Lehsten	2018	Bachelors	St. John Fisher College	16.68%

In addition to their stellar portfolio returns, this class of winners accomplished an unprecedented feat. After our final tally and audit of the performance results, St. John Fisher College became the first school in the history of our portfolio challenge to claim ownership to all 5 of the contest winners. While these students held different positions in their portfolios, they all followed an Energy and Commodities-heavy strategy that enabled them to generate outsize returns. This statistical anomaly shattered the previous record held by University of Central Florida with 2 of the top 5 students. Moreover, St. John Fisher College managed to accomplish this despite representing under 5% of our 1,000 total contestants and facing the competition’s largest and most globally diverse playing field ever. This is a clear reflection of not only the high quality of students that St. John Fisher College possesses, but also the talent that can be found in smaller schools outside the collegiate mainstream.

As the Top 5 Winners of this semester’s challenge, these students will be featured and recognized during the ETF Global® Portfolio Challenge Awards Ceremony at the upcoming Fall 2017 ETP Forum (www.etpforum.org) on Tuesday, November 28^th at the New York Athletic Club.

Please see below for the students that rounded out our Top 25 participants:

Name	Class	School	Return
Sagar Jain Prabhakar	2017	University of Manitoba	16.16%
William Ryan	2017	St. John Fisher College	14.09%
Christopher Tie	2017	University College London	13.89%
Kyle Reid	2017	St. John Fisher College	13.66%
David Irizarry	2018	University of Puerto Rio – Rio Piedras	12.41%
Matt McKenney	2018	University of Maine	12.26%
Jodie Ernestaputra	2018	Monash University Malaysia	11.14%
Gage Paul	2017	University of Akron	10.28%
Baptiste Dermaux	2017	ESSEC	9.45%
Dustin Wallace	2020	Fresno City College	9.24%
Rania Aghoutane	2017	ESSEC	9.09%
Sheng Ya Ng	2018	Imperial College London	9.06%
Edwin Lee	2018	Rutgers University	8.32%
Adam Ellis	2018	University of Manitoba	8.10%
Chi Lun Ng	2018	Hang Seng Management College	8.09%
Troy Terveer	2019	University of South Carolina	7.83%
Ryan Pete	2018	St. John Fisher College	7.81%
Chad Martin	2017	University of Maine	7.62%
Dan Dang	2017	St. John Fisher College	7.28%
Lauren Marotta	2017	St. John Fisher College	7.22%

As reflected in the table above, our winners hailed from a diversity of schools and academic disciplines. St. John Fisher College again broke another milestone by placing 10 students in our top 25, surpassing our previous record holder University of Texas at Austin from the Spring 2016.

Since its inception in the Fall 2015, the ETF Global® Portfolio Challenge has attracted students from 6 continents and over 300 schools. As millennials continue to increase their usage of ETFs, we encourage all college students to take advantage of this opportunity and learn about this fast-growing investment vehicle before they enter the marketplace.

The performance of our Spring 2017 contestants was thoroughly impressive, upholding the high standard set by our previous contestants. We’d like to give a special thanks to Fidelity Investments, our executive sponsor for the Spring, who served as a fantastic partner for this semester’s challenge. We are proud to support this initiative and play a part in the education of the next generation of investors.

Registration for the Fall 2017 competition will open at the end of May.  For more information and to sign-up for the Challenge, please visit: www.etfportfoliochallenge.com.

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