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Issue 6 - December 2015
@BahrainBourse
www.bahrainbourse.comTRADEQUEST CHALLENGE FOR UNIVERSITIES 2015/2016
Bahrain Bourse (BHB) official-
ly announced the kick-off of the
TradeQuest Challenge for uni-
versities for the year 2015-2016
on Thursday, 19
th
November
2015. The kick-off meeting was
held at Bahrain Bourse’s prem-
ises, where all participating stu-
dents, teams’ advisors, and invest-
ment advisors, who will monitor
and coach the teams during the
program, attended the event.
During the meeting, a detailed
presentation was made to explain
to the participants the objectives
of the program, the program’s
timeline, rules, and approach.
This year’s TradeQuest program
includes 4 university and educa-
tional institutions teams, and they
are: Ahlia University, BIBF, Bah-
rain Polytechnic, Royal Universi-
ty for Women. The total number
of participants in the program
is more than 40 participants.
TradeQuest is a simulated busi-
ness-education partnership pro-
gram that focuses on investment
trading in world financial markets,
which operated for the first time in
the Kingdom of Bahrain in 1996
in cooperation with financial in-
stitutions and educational parties.
Several financial and banking in-
stitutions in Bahrain are sponsor-
ing TradeQuest and taking part in
the program by conducting lec-
tures and workshops of the pro-
gram, and assigning investment
advisors for the participating
teams and they are: Esterad In-
vestment Company, Mumtalakat,
Tamkeen and United Gulf Bank.