Trips
SFA recognizes the value in visiting finance professionals in order to observe financial concepts in action. Each semester, students have the unique opportunity to visit financial institutions and corporations in a wide variety of financial fields in cities throughout the US.
SFA students
with Pat Dorsey, Director of Stock Analysis at Morningstar.On our trips, students are expected to actively engage the finance professionals at the places we visit, so that the experience is rewarding for everyone. In order to adequately prepare for the trips, students will attend a pre-trip meeting to discuss the stops that we will be making. At the meeting, we will also provide reading material that students are required to read prior to going on the trip.
Demand to go on these trips is high and we are frequently limited as to the number of students allowed. Therefore a trip application is mandatory for all students interested in going on trips. The link below provides an application as a Word document. This must be filled out and turned into the Finance Office prior to the applicable deadline. In addition to completing the application, students must also submit a trip deposit and be current on their dues.
2007-2008 Trips
Below are the trips that we have made this academic year. Please feel free to browse through these trips and those from past years as some of the stops may be of particular interest to your future career.
- New York - March 6th-9th, 2008
In the 2008 semester during March, a group of SFA members made their annual trip to New York City visiting many businesses. This trip is made possible every year by Kansas State Alumni, Jeff Gates owner of Gates Capital Management. This year students stopped at Deloitte & Touche to hear a presentation on Global M & A. They talked with Jeff Gates at Gates Capital Management about hedge funds. For lunch Joe Searles took all of the students out to Sylvia's in Harlem.Go to Sylvia's The next day students were able to visit with brokers at Abel/Noser, and go on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange. Later the students were able to attend the closing of the Nasdaq. After the close of the stock markets the group walked to Lehman Brothers.
- Boston - November 15 - 18, 2007
During November SFA students traveled to Boston where they visited professionals at private equity firm Bain Capital, Goldman Sachs, Bain & Company, Bank of America and Harvard Business School. The trip would not have been possible without the gracious support of Bain Capital's Paul Edgerley and Jane Colford. In addition to arranging the business visits, Mr. Edgerley treated the students to a Boston Celtics game. Above is a photo of Mr. Edgerley, part owner of the Celtics, and K-State students in a suite at the Boston Garden.
- Kansas City - October 26, 2007
To begin the 2007/2008 SFA trips, students visited Kansas City to meet with prominent alumni in the city. Stops during the trip included:
- American Century Investments where students met with one of the country's top fund managers and his equity analyst as well as fund traders.
- Kansas City Board of Trade to witness Winter Red Wheat Trading first hand at the market close.
- An influential visit to George K. Baum and Co. to speak with Investment Banking Associate, Adam Wieden.