$2.4 million, run by students. Over 90% of them get placed.
IMG is the only student-led fund at Baruch that manages real capital. Members research the companies, build the models, and pitch the positions the fund actually holds. Most go on to Investment Banking, Sales & Trading, Equity Research, or other high finance roles. Every major is welcome and no experience is required.
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Not a case competition. An actual portfolio.
Most finance clubs practice. We invest. Members research companies, pitch them to the room, and vote on what goes into a long-only equity portfolio with real money behind it. Very few students have done that before they graduate.
Real capital, real decisions
The only student-led, real-money fund on campus. Every position in the book was researched, pitched, and approved by students.
Trained from zero
You do not need experience and you do not need to be a finance major. We start at financial statements and build from there.
Elective credit
The only club at Baruch that offers elective credits to its members, so the work counts toward your degree and not just your résumé.
What you actually learn to do.
Find the idea
Screen, read, and notice something about a business before everyone else gets there.
Think forward
Anyone can read last year. The job is having a view on the next three to five years, and knowing why you hold it.
Build the case
Statements, a model, comps and a DCF, and an investment rationale that survives someone pushing on it.
Pitch it, then own it
Present the idea to the fund, defend it live, and stay with the position after the vote.
Finance recruiting begins earlier than you think.
Finance internship applications open well before most students finish their upper-level coursework. Starting in your first year puts three things in place before that: the technical skills, an actual track record you can talk about in an interview, and a group of upperclassmen and alumni who have already been through it.
What happens the summer after.
Getting the offer is one thing. The first few weeks of the internship are another, and that is usually where the fund work shows.
You have done it before
By the time you start, you have read filings, built a model, and defended an idea to a room that pushed back. That covers a fair amount of what a first-year analyst does.
You come in with a view
Members spend the year around people who ask why. That habit transfers to a desk where having an opinion is the expectation.
The ramp is shorter
Going from nothing to useful in ten weeks is hard. Starting from a year of research and modeling is a different starting point.
Come to one meeting.
All three general interest meetings cover the same material and every one runs 12:30 to 2:30 PM. If you only make one, make it No. 3. It is the only in-person session, the whole club is there, and you get real face time with members and the board.
General Interest Meeting No. 1
General Interest Meeting No. 2
General Interest Meeting No. 3Come to this one
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Frequently asked questions.
No, and that is the point. We train a new class from scratch every year. Plenty of the people running the fund now joined without having opened a filing.
No. All majors are welcome and we actively want the mix. Some of the sharpest analysts on the fund came in from outside the business school.
The opposite. Freshmen get the most out of it because there is time to build something before recruiting starts asking what you have done.
Yes. IMG is the only club at Baruch that offers elective credits to its members.
All three cover the same material, so any one of them works. That said, come to No. 3 if you can. It is the only in-person session, the whole club will be there, and you get face time with members and the board instead of a Zoom window. If you cannot make any of them, apply anyway before the September 18 deadline.
Applications close September 18.
All majors welcome. No finance experience required.
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