A Winning Season: Thousands of Teams, Bigger Stakes, and the Top 50 2026 Wharton Investment Competition Teams Revealed
If investing were a sport, let’s just say it has been quite a season so far for the 2025-2026 Wharton Global High School Investment Competition.
Led by this year’s client Connor Barwin (WG’23), former NFL star and founder of Make the World Better (MTWB) foundation, Wharton Global Youth’s annual financial education competition at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania – the largest competition of its kind globally – has seen some fierce growth and team effort.
At the start of trading on Monday, September 29, 2025, the competition welcomed more than 6,300 registered teams from around the world, an increase of 1,300+ from the previous year.
In other big numbers, for the first time since the start of the competition in 2012, students were crafting compelling investment strategies and building investment portfolios with $500,000 in virtual cash, up from $100,000.
On December 12, some 2,300 teams from 79 countries submitted final reports, an increase of nearly 30% over last year’s competition.
The Big Reveal
And now, with the help of our Wharton School student evaluators, as well as a professional review panel of asset managers from Aberdeen Investments in Philadelphia, we have arrived at a pivotal competition moment: the announcement of this year’s semifinalist teams, including a team from last year’s winning school, Deerfield Academy.
The Top 50 Teams advancing to the 2026 Semifinal Round of the Wharton Global High School Investment Competition are:
🌟 Aeternum Capital: Sinav College High School, Turkey
🌟 Allocated Capital: Richard Montgomery High School, Maryland, U.S.
🌟 ARC Investing: Deerfield Academy. Massachusetts., U.S.
🌟 Arrowit Capital: Tarbut V’ Torah Community Day School, California, U.S.
🌟 Asgard Assets: The Village School, Texas, U.S.
🌟 Better Future Fund: Buckingham Browne & Nichols School, Massachusetts, U.S.
🌟 Broke Bulls: Jamnabai Narsee International School, India
🌟 Bullish Bearcats: The Hotchkiss School, Connecticut, U.S.
🌟 Cistercian Team 1: Cistercian Preparatory School, Texas, U.S.
🌟 Dominator Of Destiny Pro: Basis International School ShenZhen, China
🌟 End Zone Equity: Ramaz School, New York, U.S.
🌟 Endzone Investments: Walter Payton College Preparatory High School, Illinois, U.S.
🌟 FigCapital: Stuyvesant High School, New York, U.S.
🌟 Finance From France: Lycée Français de Chicago, Illinois, U.S.
🌟 Forbes Top Five: Havergal College, Canada
🌟 Gain Rain: Shanghai Arete Bilingual School (China)
🌟 Gregory Quant Capital: The Gregory School, Arizona, U.S.
🌟 HHA Investments: Colégio Marista de Brasília, Brazil
🌟 Hooke Investments: Westminster School, U.K.
🌟 Keystone Capital: Stuyvesant High School, New York, U.S.
🌟 Kpop Demon Dealmakers: University of Toronto Schools, Canada
🌟 LEDger & Turf: Springfield Commonwealth Academy, Massachusetts, U.S.
🌟 Levani Capital Management: Ridgewood High School, New Jersey, U.S.
🌟 Liberty Capital: Parish Episcopal School, Texas, U.S.
🌟 Lumen Field Investments: Amity International School Sector 6, Vasundhara, India
🌟 Malo Management: Winston Churchill High School, Maryland, U.S.
🌟 Money Mantra: American High School, California, U.S.
🌟 Mustang Wealth Management: Marriotts Ridge High School, Maryland, U.S.
🌟 Mustangs of the Market: Fudan International School, China
🌟 NP FundaQuants: Gymnázium a základní škola Nový PORG, Czech Republic
🌟 PAO Investment: Chadwick School, California, U.S.
🌟 Patriot Portfolio: Olentangy Liberty High School, Ohio, U.S.
🌟 Perse Capital Group: The Perse School, U.K.
🌟 Piccolomini Investment Group: Istituto d’Istruzione Superiore Enea Silvio Piccolomini Siena, Italy
🌟 Pink Dolphins: Island School, Hong Kong
🌟 Portfolio Predators: BASIS Peoria, Arizona, U.S.
🌟 RCDS Investments: Rye Country Day School, New York, U.S.
🌟 Redbluegold: Anglo-Chinese School, Singapore
🌟 Riverhawk Traders: Farmington High School, Connecticut, U.S.
🌟 ScaleAlpha Investments: Maxfort School, Rohini, India
🌟 Seafarer Capital: Amity International School, Mayur Vihar, India
🌟 Shower Trader: Ruamrudee International School, Thailand
🌟 Stockers: Neerja Modi School, India
🌟 Tackling the Market: The Paideia School, Georgia, U.s.
🌟 The Bigger Blue: Phillips Academy Andover, Massachusetts, U.S.
🌟 The Compounders: Vandegrift High School, Texas, U.S.
🌟 Wall Street Winners: Brookline High School, Massachusetts, U.S.
🌟 WealthStone: Amity International School, Noida, India
🌟 Wolves of Western: Western Canada High School, Canada
🌟 Year 11-9687357: Berlin Brandenburg International School, Germany
Congratulations to the 2025-26 semifinalists!
Stronger Community
And to all the thousands of competing students and teacher-advisors who joined us in September 2025, we appreciate your time, energy and enthusiasm for this year’s Wharton Global High School Investment Competition. Teams that competed at least through the mid-term report submissions will receive a participation badge in February to display on your résumé and on LinkedIn.
We consider you all part of our Wharton Global Youth community. We hope you will check back here in our newsroom, as well as sign up for our monthly newsletter, to stay connected to Wharton Global Youth and to follow the progress of the top teams as they compete in the semifinals over the next several weeks and meet virtually the week of March 9 to learn the 10 teams that will move on to the Global Finale on the Wharton School campus, held this year on April 24 and 25.
Game on!