College participants invest a hypothetical sum of Rs 200,000 in SEM’s listed securities by creating an Investment Portfolio and experience investing, without spending a cent of their own money! Participants team up in groups of 5 GRADE 12 students. Students manage their portfolio to achieve optimal total return over 2 months (capital gains + dividends, bonus issues and rights issues received on Ex-date, if any), and receive updated portfolio-reports by e-mail from SEM, following buy/sell trade orders.
- Inculcate an investment culture for the young generation by providing a practical, interactive, and free-to-play simulation platform for participants by being in the shoes of real investors;
- Provide a holistic approach and support to learning via interactions with SEM, stockbrokers and listed companies, and guiding participants to SEM's digital investor services (mySEM & SEM website) to follow daily market data and corporate actions/published accounts of listed companies;
- Submit a Report, aimed at testing higher-level skills of stock market performance research and analysis, financial statement analysis of listed companies, quantitative/qualitative critical application of financial ratio analysis, with the ability to make a judgement and draw conclusions. The Report should contain a logical structure with an evaluation of findings based on a systematic approach of info gathering from original work.
Portfolios are updated daily and on last day of competition (31st July 2025), are valued as final, taking into account all dividends, bonus and rights issues allocated on Ex-Date, if any. Each team should submit a Report in 2 parts (Investment Plan and Investment Report) at end of competition. Report Submission and Portfolio Valuation, respectively, carry 40% and 60% of the marks.
