It’s the moment that thousands of competitors have been waiting for! The Wharton Global Youth Program has identified the Top 50 Semifinalist Teams in our annual Wharton Global High School Investment Competition, which this year launched on Monday, September 25, 2023.
Following the end of trading on Friday, December 1, Wharton Global Youth received more than 1,600 final reports from students representing 63 countries.
After careful consideration by our internal reviewers and a group of professional asset managers from abrdn in Philadelphia, we have selected this year’s strongest teams – including one team from last year’s first-place school, Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology, which won an automatic spot among the semifinalists.
The top 50 teams advancing to the 2024 Semifinal Round of the Wharton Global High School Investment Competition are:
4RFMs: Kolej Yayasan UEM, Malaysia
A.S.L: Point Grey Secondary School, Canada
Ace Analysts: Peddie School, U.S. (NJ)
Alpha Asset Management: Instituto Alpha Lumen, Brazil
Arcadia Avengers: Arcadia School, United Arab Emirates
Beats from D-Street: Amity International School, Noida, India
Big Apple Investment: Stuyvesant High School, U.S. (NY)
Capital Catalysts: Dhirubhai Ambani International School, India
ChaChaPartners: Marriotts Ridge High School, U.S. (MD)
CHS Invest Elites: William P. Clements High School, U.S. (TX)
Croton Securities Council: Croton Harmon High School, U.S. (NY)
DMV’s Finest: Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology, U.S. (VA)
Dulwich Investors: Dulwich College Beijing, China
Eagle Equities: Singapore American School, Singapore
Finance Bros 🤑: The Harker School, U.S. (CA)
Finance X: Qingdao New Oriental Academy, China
Finlytical: University of Toronto Schools, Canada
InvestIQ: Jayshree Periwal International School, India
Matadors-WATA : Miramonte High School, U.S. (CA)
Mice In Suits: Carmel High School, U.S. (IN)
Mission Peak Capital: Stratford Preparatory Blackford, U.S. (CA)
NeuralNomics: Sage Hill School, U.S. (CA)
NPIS_1: Nový PORG, Czechia (Czech Republic)
PeakCap: Kunshan Liren Foreign Language School, China
PG: Point Grey Secondary School, Canada
Playmaker Investments: The Ramaz School, U.S. (NY)
Prep Econ Society: Bangkok Prep International School, Thailand
Primitive Panthers: H.B. Plant High School, U.S. (FL)
Profit Pilgrims: Amity International School, Pushp Vihar, India
Prosperity: The Experimental High School Attached to Beijing Normal University, China
Prosperity Pinnacle Investment Co.: Hwa Chong International School, Singapore
Serve and Set Finances: Amity International School, Saket, India
Serving Up Performance: Lambert High School, U.S. (GA)
Silk Quest Capital: Amity International School, Noida, India
Six Hundred Thirteen Capital: The Ramaz School, U.S. (NY)
Spark Investments: Bergen County Academies, U.S. (NJ)
Stadium Capital: Walter Payton College Prep, U.S. (IL)
Stock Surgeons: Amity International School, Sector- 46, Haryana, India
Team Mochi: Newton North High School, U.S. (MA)
The Wolves of Wharton: Pleasant Valley High School, U.S. (IA)
Torchbearer Capital: Island School, Hong Kong
Touchstone Research: Canyon Crest Academy, U.S. (CA)
Trading Edge: Podar International school CBSE Powai, India
Turkey Traders: Richard Montgomery High School, U.S. (MD)
Unreal Investments: Carmel High School, U.S. (IN)
WeCARE Investments: Crofton House School, Canada
Wolf of Western Co.: Western Canada High School, Canada
Wootang: The Lawrenceville School, U.S. (NJ)
Wreckers Wealth Management: Staples High School, U.S. (CT)
WSETTERS: Rochester Adams High School, U.S. (MI)
Congratulations to the 2024 semifinalists!
And to all the thousands of competing students and teacher-advisors who joined us in September 2023, we appreciate your time, energy and enthusiasm for this year’s Wharton Global High School Investment Competition. Those of you who at least submitted midterm reports should have received surveys to help us better understand your individual competition journey. Please fill them out, so we can continue to build a fun, educational and rewarding competition experience.
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 virtually in the semifinals in March 2024 to determine the 10 teams that will move on to the Global Finale on April 20.
Until then, keep following those stocks and ETFs with a strategic eye and a long-term mindset.