[Singapore, 21 August 2013 (Wednesday)] – Singapore Exchange (SGX) and Singapore Management University (SMU) are partnering to enhance the investment knowledge of SMU business students, investment professionals and the public.  Focusing on listed securities, the collaboration will benefit all undergraduate and postgraduate students taking finance-related programmes at SMU.  The investment and financial market-related contents from SGX’s own school, SGX Academy, and SGX’s investor resource portal, My Gateway, will be added to SMU’s business curriculum.

Professor Howard Thomas, Dean, SMU Lee Kong Chian School of Business, and Lynn Gaspar, Senior Vice President and Head of Retail Investors from SGX officially sealed the collaboration through a Memorandum of Understanding at a signing ceremony held today at SMU.

In October, SMU and SGX will also launch the SMU-SGX Quantitative Trading Course, a training programme open to students and the public, in particular, traders who want to find new trading strategies.  Designed and delivered by faculty members of the SMU Lee Kong Chian School of Business in conjunction with industry partners, the course will give participants hands-on trading experience within SMU’s Simulated Trading Room.  This short-term course will also be open to participants from the ASEAN region, in line with Singapore’s role as an international financial centre and SGX’s position as the Asian Gateway.

Plans are also underway for joint efforts to increase research and resources for the investing and trading communities.

“The collaboration with SGX exemplifies our strategy to make SMU’s research and brand of education relevant to the industry.  The live-feed market data to our classroom will create an exciting learning experience for our students.  In time to come, I see great potential in this collaboration which will produce significant results that impact and transform the financial industry,” said Professor Howard Thomas, Dean of SMU Lee Kong Chian School of Business.

“At a time when investors want to be better informed about investing in financial markets, this collaboration with SMU allows us to offer them knowledge for beginners to professionals.  By adding SGX content to the university’s business curriculum, we will help new graduates prepare to enter the workforce and be more confident in their investment decisions,” said Lynn Gaspar, Senior Vice President and Head of Retail Investors at SGX.

About Singapore Exchange

Singapore Exchange (SGX) is the Asian Gateway, connecting investors in search of Asian growth to corporate issuers in search of global capital. SGX represents the premier access point for managing Asian capital and investment exposure, and is Asia’s most internationalised exchange with more than 40% of companies listed on SGX originating outside of Singapore. SGX offers its clients the world’s biggest offshore market for Asian equity futures, centred on Asia’s three largest economies – China, India and Japan.

In addition to offering a fully integrated value chain from trading and clearing, to settlement and depository services, SGX is also Asia’s pioneering central clearing house. Headquartered in Asia’s most globalised city, and centred within the AAA strength and stability of Singapore’s island nation, SGX is a peerless Asian counterparty for the clearing of financial and commodity products.

For more information, please visit www.sgx.com