ASAP 101 begins today!

Now that our small class of portfolio managers (to be) is acclimated to the MBA rigor and have begun to peak on the "efficiency curve" (of being grad students), our ASAP 101 class begins today. The class has also been called Investing 101. The class has three purposes:

• To provide us with intros to investment analysis and tools to do so


• To meet with and learn from many investment professionals throughout the year


• To merge academics with real-world ideas and get us ready to get into the business (and, more importantly, manage the school's fund of $13M)

ASAP 101 runs for the remainder of the academic year. I will try to post a snippet of each class, that way those of you who read my blog to learn more about UW and, in particular ASAP, can get a better feel for what it's all about. Today we'll be talking about investment styles and beliefs about markets in general.

In a way, this is where the rubber meets the road. There are 10 of us this year who are going into the business and we have a plethora of resources to choose from, access to many investment pros, and we all love talking about the markets and investments. Now I'll be looking forward to Fridays!