Annual Investment Competition for Local Schools

The competition aims to serve as an introduction to the UK stockmarket and broaden the interest of students in their business studies as well as providing an extra resource for teachers.

This year's competition will run for 6 months from 1st November 2016.  Once again each team of 4 students starts with a theoretical sum of £10,000 to play the UK stockmarket and the team with the highest value portfolio on the 30th April 2017 will be the winner.   Members of the winning team will receive £25 each and an HSBC goody bag and, in addition, the winning School will receive a cheque for £100.

A presentation lunch for the winning team will take place at the Wynnstay Hotel, Oswestry during the Summer Term.

In recent years the Competition has received excellent support from prominent local schools and was won last year by a team from Moreton Hall. This year 17 teams have entered from 4 schools.

Each month the teams' progress will be measured by Sean Meakin, Senior Customer Service Officer at HSBC Bank plc Oswestry, who will report on the status of their investments.

The first report can be seen below as valued on 18th November 2016.