McGill Desautels finance students expand horizons with small-cap fund

Thanks to a generous donation from Montreal finance leader J. Sebastian Van Berkom, students in the Honours in Investment Management (HIM) program at McGill’s Desautels Faculty of Management will now manage a newly launched small-cap fund through Desautels Capital Management (DCM)—Canada’s first university-owned registered investment firm.

The addition of the small-cap fund marks a significant expansion of DCM’s portfolio, and complements the firm’s existing large-cap and fixed-income funds, expanding students’ exposure to diverse investment strategies, including AI-driven and socially responsible investing.

Van Berkom, founder of Van Berkom Global Asset Management, launched a similar program at Concordia. Inspired by McGill alumnus Jonathan Ross Goodman (MBA’94), he’s now helping prepare McGill students for careers in finance, consulting and entrepreneurship.

Read more about how this initiative is helping shape the next generation of investment leaders.