Students form investment group
By Ahsan Rahim | May 4, 1994Two enterprising undergraduates recently created an investment group that allows students to pool their money so they can invest in the stock market. The purpose of the group, called Performance Investing, is "to provide people who would ordinarily not be able to invest, from lack of sufficient capital, an opportunity to invest in the stock market and gain valuable investment experience," said Omar Lari '96, co-founder and chair of the group. "This organization will allow investors to pool their money and invest in a diversified portfolio, thus lowering the risk premium" said Sanjay Natarajan '96, the other co-founder and the group's chief financial officer. The group, which was originally named The Dartmouth Investment Group, was renamed Performance Investing at the advice of Sean Gorman, associate counsel for the College, to make it clear that the group has nothing to do with Dartmouth. The group is similar to a mutual fund in the sense that investors pool their money, Lari said.