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Masters’ Union’s student-managed trading fund will be allocated under its newly launched programme.
The fund will be deployed by the inaugural Postgraduate Programme in Capital Markets & Trading batch.
Masters’ Union, a Gurugram-based business school, has announced a Rs 40 lakh student-managed trading fund under its newly launched Postgraduate Programme in Capital Markets & Trading (PGP-CMT). This is the first time an Indian academic institution has entrusted students with real capital to actively trade across live markets.
The fund, according to an Economic Times report, will be deployed by the inaugural PGP-CMT batch from August 2025. They aim to offer hands-on training to students across eight asset classes, including equities, derivatives, fixed income, commodities, currencies and regulated digital assets.
Reportedly, the capital is drawn from the larger Masters’ Union Investment Fund (MUIF) and is designated strictly for educational purposes.
The institute clarified that the students will be trading in real-time but under “structured academic supervision”. They clarified that the trading fund does not constitute a collective investment scheme and does not involve third-party funds.
The ET report stated that the students would operate the fund under the mentorship of seasoned professionals, including high-frequency traders, hedge fund managers, and portfolio strategists. Among the 20+ industry practitioners teaching the course are former Director of IIFL Sanjiv Bhasin, Ambit Investment Advisor MD Siddhartha Rastogi, Founder of WallStreet School Manoj Goel and Aman Singhania, Senior VP at NSE Indices.
The programme aims to fill a much-needed gap in the Indian landscape of trading education. In addition, to live trading experiences, the course also has a wealth management challenge that is a situation-based module where students learn about building a compliant advisory model without managing real capital.
One of the educators, Sanjiv Bhasin, was quoted in the ET report saying India’s trading education system was fragmented and dominated by self-taught investors with little formal grounding. He added that the Gurugram Business School’s initiative will bring structure to otherwise chaotic learning space. Bhasin added that trading is about understanding markets, risk, and strategy.
Masters’ Union said the model would establish a leading model for practical finance education in India, allowing students to further their careers in areas like investment banking, portfolio management and high-frequency trading.
Where the trading fund offers students genuine exposure, the programme is overseen with detailed academic oversight to maintain compliance with regulations and education-oriented controls.
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