UQ Business School students selected to play UBS mock trading game

Applications close tomorrow for an interactive trading game to be run by financial services giant UBS at UQ Business School on Tuesday May 3.

On game day, UBS will present a brief introduction to basic concepts and terminology and students will work in teams to buy and sell options and forwards – with the aim of amassing the most valuable portfolio by the end of the game.

Each team will be joined by UBS traders and will compete against each other to win the game.

UBS campus recruiter Elizabeth Naylor said any student in their penultimate year of study would be eligible to enter.

She said, “We’re looking for students with very strong quantitative skills and a passion for trading.”

UQ Business School Finance Lecturer Jamie Alcock said the School’s Commerce (Honours) program allowed students to specialise in quantitative finance.

He said, “As well as their coursework in corporate finance, students undertake quantitative finance electives, attend specialised seminars, and complete a highly technical research project.”

He said electives available to students included advanced asset pricing, financial mathematics, stochastic calculus, computational finance, and advanced econometrics.

UBS will this year run the game in their Sydney and Melbourne offices as well as at The University of Queensland Business School, which is the first higher education venue to be included.

UBS is a leading global financial services firm with about 67,000 employees. UBS is present in all major financial centres worldwide, with offices in 50 countries. In Australia and New Zealand, UBS is market leader and employs more than 1,000 people.

For more information

Dr Jamie Alcock
Lecturer in Finance
Phone (07) 3365 6961
Email j.alcock@business.uq.edu.au

Cathy Stacey
Marketing Development Manager
Phone (07) 3365 6179
Email c.stacey@business.uq.edu.au