Finance Club: Stake to Success
Reading between the lines
- Closes today. Whatever you're doing, it's less important.
- Needs up to 4 people. Everyone competent is already in three groups — ask today.
- No PPO. Enter for the prize or the practice — just be honest about which.
The ask
Stake to Success is a two-stage, team-based finance event. Teams of 3-4 members from the same institution first compete across a 3-round quiz (Beginner, Intermediate, and a fund-building Hard round), then enter into an Investment Portfolio stage where they allocate capital across companies and present their reasoning. Guidelines: Open to all UG and PG students; participation is team-based only, with each team consisting of 3-4 members from the same institution. Team composition cannot be changed after registration, and teams must bring their own laptops. Stage 1 (Quiz) runs across 3 rounds of increasing difficulty — Beginner, Intermediate, and Hard — and teams must qualify in each round to advance. Qualification criteria for Round 1 are revealed on the event day. In Round 3 (Hard), teams choose one sector — Stock Market, Corporate Finance, Current Affairs, or others — and answer 10 questions from that area, starting with a fund of ₹20,00,000. Correct answers add ₹1,00,000 and wrong answers deduct ₹1,00,000 per question; all 10 questions must be answered. The fund a team ends Round 3 with becomes their investable capital for Stage 2 (Investment Portfolio). St…
Who can enter
Read this before you write forty slides, not after.
- Engineering Students
- Postgraduate
- Undergraduate
- Management
- Medical
- Law
Skills involved
And the ones you'll add to LinkedIn on Sunday night.
- Team Coordination
- Decision Making
- Financial Markets Knowledge
- Investment Principles
- Portfolio Construction
- Financial Analysis