The China Post
Date: March 27, 2017
By: The China Post news staff

TAIPEI, Taiwan — Following an intense eight-week competition, the winners of Franklin

A deputy general manager of Franklin Templeton Investments, first from right, poses with QFC, the first-place winners of its investment competition, Sunday, March 26. (Kuan-lin Liu, The China Post)

Templeton Investments Investment Competition were announced on Sunday, March 26.

The competition attracted 1191 of Taiwan’s college students comprising 394 teams to engage in online investment simulations that featured the TAIEX, NASDAQ, Dow Jones, the Shanghai Stock Exchange Composite Index, and the Hang Seng Index.

Speaking at the awards ceremony, Professor Chu Yun-peng (朱雲鵬) of the Asia Pacific New Economic Association said that “participating in this competition was a learning process not just for the skills of investment and trading but also on how to be a good person.”    [FULL  STORY]