Have Your Students Join the Green Stock Market Game!

The Green division of the Stock Market Game Simulation (“GSMG”) offers a unique opportunity for students to engage in a stock market investment simulation in publicly traded American companies that positively address climate change, and human rights.

It promotes researching these issues and investing in companies that are positioned to protect their investors from the impact of climate change as well as take advantage of opportunities to provide new products and services. This educational experience employs the Foundation for Investor Education’s traditional Stock Market GameTM program, and overlays it with stock selection
criteria employing the KLD Research and Analytics (“KLD”) screening software. The game will use the KLD “Environment” and “Human Rights” evaluation criteria to determine whether or not companies are acting in ways that are consistent with well defined standards of corporate conduct in the areas of climate change and human rights. Stocks will be selected based on these criteria. Then the game will simulate making investments in those companies in the traditional Stock Market GameTM program of the Foundation for Investor Education.

Student participants in this GSMG simulation enter their specific equity choices into the KLD “screens” for environmental and human rights accountability. Only those equities that on balance have greater strengths than weaknesses and thereby pass the overall Qualitative Issues review for KLD screens on Environment and Human Rights accountability, may be included in the student’s GSMG portfolio for the Green GameTM.

At the end of the 10 week game period, the winner of the special Green Division will be determined by the asset value of their portfolio. The purchase of a stock that on balance does not address the environmental or human rights issues and thereby fails the KLD screen for either will disqualify a team from the competition.

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In the News

The Connecticut Economy

A Quarterly Review of the Connecticut Economy

http://cteconomy.uconn.edu/

Research Papers in Economics

http://repec.org/

The Economist

http://www.economist.com/index.html

Bloomberg.com

http://www.bloomberg.com/?b=0&Intro=intro3

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Workshops

Workshops will be custom tailored to your school or schools' needs. The Center with Connecticut Council on Economic Education support offers workshops in areas such as teaching economics in Mathematics or teaching economics in American or World History. These economic concepts will not only teach students reasoning and critical thinking skills, but enhance the core subject matter itself.

We also can provide current topics workshops on such issues as Globalization, Economic Development, Poverty and Wealth, etc. Financial literacy, entrepreneurship and career forecasts and prospects might also of interest to you and your teachers.

If you have an idea or a need for workshops please contact us and we will try to accommodate your request(s).

We can also provide discounts on almost any and all economic and financial literacy materials for your district from the AP economics level to elementary. Please see the National Council on Economic Education website http://www.ncee.net/ for examples, but we are, of course, not limited to those materials.

Contact William Alpert to schedule a workshop.

Center for Economic Education offers UCONN Economics Classes on Line or traditionally (in person)!

The Center for Economic Education and the Economics Department offers University of Connecticut courses in high schools with/or without on line support!  These courses are offered via the University’s Early College Experience Program

UConn Early College Experience (ECE) is a concurrent enrollment program that allows motivated high school students to take UConn courses at their high schools for both high school and college credit. Every course taken through UConn ECE is equivalent to the same course at the University of Connecticut. Students benefit by taking college courses in a warm setting that is both familiar and conducive to learning.

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Long Term Investing Game

Most investors make their stock market investments for years, not weeks or months. This is known as “buy and hold” investing. “The Long Term Investing for a Better World: Statewide Investment Competition” is designed to give students the opportunity to learn about and describe their selection rationale for investments based on issues that determine the investment’s long term expected value. Since the Stock Market GameTM cannot be run over a five year period, the long term investing competition will be based on an essay that describes the rationale for the stock selection of a portfolio that is expected to yield superior net returns over a five year time period.

As with the stock market game, this aspect of the game will involve teams of up to four students. Using a hypothetical $100,000, students will select a minimum of four domestic equities and a maximum of 10 stocks to make up a long-term portfolio. This portfolio should be designed to maximize net returns over a period of five (or more) years. The selection of these stocks should be based on their ability to provide long term net returns in the global economy in the face of sustainability issues, such as climate change, international efforts to limit CO2 and other greenhouse emissions, developing technology, human rights challenges, changing global supply chains, etc. The portfolio can be made up of any companies. Because the goal here is long term – buy and hold – you will not make any additional buy or sell decisions after the initial investment. Each security held in the portfolio must pass the KLD Research and Analytics, Inc. “Environmental” and “Human Rights” screens

Analysis of Current Events

Introducing young individuals to an economic way of thinking

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Can an election futures market be more accurate than a public-opinion poll?

Challenge your high school students to find out which approach delivers the best results.

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