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Brandes Institute Manager Challenge®
Conducted completely online, teams can participate from anywhere in the world with internet access.
The tournament is typically divided into two categories for participation:
1. Investment Professionals: Individuals or teams from any organization in the business of allocating assets among investment managers. In addition to clients of Brandes Investment Partners, L.P., consultants, financial advisors, and institutional investors such as pension funds, endowments, and foundations are invited to participate. (Please identify yourself as an investment professional when you register via email to challengeinfo@brandes.com.)
2. Individual Investors: Those who have an interest in learning more about asset allocation, manager research and selection, and portfolio monitoring.
The team from each category with the highest excess returns will be the winner in that category. The week-long event will advance by one period each day, allowing teams to research and allocate their selections over a 24-hour period, and according to their own schedule.
The winning teams will receive gift cards and be recognized at the Brandes Institute website.
We currently do not have a scheduled date for our next Manager Challenge.
If you are interested in joining our next Tournament, please contact us at challengeinfo@brandes.com.
Brandes Client Conference Manager Challenge 2008 Tournament
The Brandes Institute Manager Challenge 2008 Tournament was played over two week-long qualifying events during the year. The Tournament was open to clients of Brandes Investment Partners, L.P., consultants, financial advisors, and institutional investors worldwide.
Each week-long event advanced by one period each day, allowing competitors 24 hours to research and allocate their portfolio accordingly. The team with the highest excess return in any single event was declared the champion.
The winner of the 2008 Tournament was Philip Read from England-based Metal Box Pension Trustees Limited. Playing as "Parametrics," he earned an invitation to the Brandes "Intelligent Investing Worldwide" Institutional Client Conference at the Grand Del Mar Resort in San Diego, and was awarded the 2008 Tournament Trophy.
The Brandes Institute Manager Challenge 2007 Tournament
The Brandes Institute Manager Challenge 2007 Tournament was played over three week-long qualifying events during the year. The Tournament was open to clients of Brandes Investment Partners, L.P., consultants, financial advisors, and institutional investors worldwide.
Each week-long event advanced by one period each day, allowing competitors 24 hours to research and allocate their portfolio accordingly. The team with the highest excess return in any single event was declared the champion.
The winner of the 2007 Tournament was Leah Jones from Chicago-based Mosaic Financial Group, LLC. She earned an invitation to the Brandes Institutional Consultant Seminar at the Grand Del Mar Resort in San Diego, and was awarded the 2007 Tournament Trophy.
Brandes Institute Manager Challenge – Institutional Client Tournament 2006 (open only to institutional clients of Brandes Investment Partners, L.P.)
The Brandes Institute Manager Challenge – Institutional Client Tournament 2006 offered participants an opportunity to represent their organization in a worldwide competition open to teams affiliated with any institutional client of Brandes Investment Partners, L.P.
The 2006 Tournament was played over four qualifying rounds during the year. The top 10 teams were prizewinners, and the top two qualified for the Championship round.
In the Championship round, the two highest-scoring teams from the qualifying rounds competed at the Brandes Institutional Client Conference at the St. Regis Monarch Beach Resort & Spa in Dana Point, on October 24th, 2006. In the 2006 Tournament final the “Mad Cows” of Lockwood Advisors defeated the “Doji Bears” of IKANO Fund Management for the trophy.
For more details, please contact us at challengeinfo@brandes.com.
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This material was prepared by the Brandes Institute. It is intended for informational purposes only. It is not meant to be an offer, solicitation, or recommendation for any products or services, or for the purchase or sale of any products or services. All information concerning managers, products and investments is fictitious. Any resemblance between managers, persons or products in the Manager Challenge and any real manager, persons, or products is unintentional. No investment strategy can assure a profit or protect against loss.
The Brandes Institute, together with academic researchers, may use data and results from the Manager Challenge in order to study investor behavior in this simulated investment environment. Throughout the Manager Challenge, the administrator may record information about team actions, including, but not limited to, hirings, firings, and when such actions were effected. The Brandes Institute reserves the right to publish results of any such research (possibly in conjunction with its academic collaborators) at the Brandes Institute website and/or in an academic journal. Any such study or research will not use the names of individuals who participate in the Manager Challenge nor the names adopted for their teams.
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