This year the presentation of the iFund board 2011-2012 was held at Soros Auditorium on 29th of August. During the brief introduction of the organization the main activities of the organization, such as the Investment Game, Investment UNlimited and Annual Conference, were announced. Since the currently the board is expecting rapid growth in its member quantity, the board was delighted numerous ways of students’ personal involvement (seminars, market overviews, real  [ Read More ]

The Academic year has already started and we are looking to our presentation on Monday. Regardless of that, we are still continuing our outlook of the world’s largest emerging economies and their current situations as well as attractiveness for investment. This time it is the turn for our Eastern giant – Russia, a country that exposes high growth potential as well as attractiveness for investment. The Russian economy has undergone  [ Read More ]

The iFund board sincerely congratulates all the new and incoming students with the start of the new Academic Year at SSE Riga. We truly hope that this year will be a period of fruitful cooperation both between the organization and all students interested in Economics and Finance. Stay tuned for our presentation next week when you will get to know more about the organization and ways you can involve and  [ Read More ]

The iFund board continues its quest around the world exploring its most potent and rapidly growing economies. The second article is devoted to the an emerging giant of Latin America – Brazil, which despite multiple economic mishaps has established a strong and vibrant economy which is bound to be one of the leading forces in the forthcoming decades. The Brazilian economy’s consistent and solid performance during the financial crisis and  [ Read More ]

Having actively observed the recent occurrences in the developed economies as well as their financial market, our board has been left with such a question.  At least a year ago the world came to think that the nightmare was over and the economies of developed countries started to recover as a result of the government fiscal measures starting to take effect. And what is happening now? Almost instantly, the world  [ Read More ]

The iFund board is pleased announce a cycle of weekly reviews devoted to the BRIC (Brazil, Russia, India, China) countries. These have been lately referred to as the countries with the highest growth potential which mainly derives high labour availability and low expenses, favourable conditions for investment as well as presence of natural resources. Hence, they are frequently called the next future big deal as people readily invest there for  [ Read More ]