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McGill inaugurates new Desautels trading room

Published: 5 March 2012

On March 1, McGill University held the inauguration ceremony for the Alphonse-Desjardins trading room on the second floor of the Bronfman Building. The event drew McGill students, McGill alumni who work for Desjardins, senior McGill administrators, and Desjardins employees who were either directly involved with the project or attending in support of the longstanding relationship between the Desautels faculty of management and the association of credit unions.

...This new trading room will serve as a classroom during the day and a computer lab by night. Finance professor Sebastian Betermier and his students will be the ones primarily working and learning in this new space. Betermier said he looks forward to working with this useful learning tool.

...Kyra Azzopardi, Management Undergraduate Society VP Academic, raved about the new software and how convenient the trading room makes it.

"Bloomberg is a program that gives market news. You can look up a company on its ticker and see its market value," Azzopardi said. "It's a really expensive, valuable software program ... and now if I'm doing a group project I can just go in there and use it."

Read full article: McGill Tribune, March 5, 2012

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