The Student Managed Portfolio holds all meetings in the John B. and Lillian Neff Trading Room. We also conduct our research in the Trading Room where we have access to Bloomberg terminals and software from Credit Suisse Holt, Thomson One, and The Applied Finance Group.
On Friday, October 22, 2004, the
College of Business Administration dedicated the John B. and Lillian Neff
Trading Room. The facility was financed by a generous $1 million donation by
Mr. and Mrs. Neff. Students benefit from the Trading Room through interactive
courses of study using real and delayed-time information from the NYSE, NASDAQ,
and Chicago Board and Trade.
John Neff served as manager of the
Vanguard Windsor Fund, now run by Vanguard Mutual Funds of Chicago, Illinois,
USA.
His investment style is known to be based on buying good companies with
moderate growth and high dividends while out of favor, and selling once they
rise to fair value. He is known as 'the professional's professional', because
many fund managers entrusted their money to him in the belief that it would be
in safe hands. That view was justified by his remarkably consistent
performance. For more than 30 years, the Windsor Fund routinely featured in the
top 5 percent of all US mutual funds.
Mr Neff studied industrial marketing
at college, but attended night classes to get a degree in banking and finance.
In 1954, he became a securities analyst with the National City Bank of
Cleveland. Both there and at his next firm, Wellington Management, he pursued a
value style of investment modeled on the writings of Ben Graham. He went on to
apply this to three equity-and-income funds - Windsor, Gemini and Qualified
Dividend - with spectacular results until his retirement in 1995.
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Trading Room - Spring 2009
Staff familiar with Bloomberg are scheduled during hours listed below
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Location:
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ST 2051
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Hours:
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Monday
Tuesday
Wednesday
Thursday
Friday
Saturday
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9:00 am-12:00 noon
10:30 am-4:30 pm
9:00 am-12:00 noon
10:30 am-4:30 pm
9:00 am-3:00 pm
9:00 am-3:00 pm
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Telephone:
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419-530-4567 or
419-530-2436 (Finance Office)
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