Registrations remain open throughout the challenge, so even if you missed the starting date, you can still enter.
University students must form a team with a minimum of two members and maximum of four members registered at the same institution. Each team must have a minimum of two and a maximum of four members. Each month, the best-performing teams and schools in each portfolio will win R500 per team member, R500 for the school and R500 for the supervising teacher. There are also five annual cash prizes per portfolio up for grabs, amounting to R60,000 per portfolio. Teams are eligible for a maximum of two monthly prizes for the duration of the competition.
“We were already part of the Young Investors Programme, which is a joint initiative by UWC and Coronation and is now known as the UWC Investors’ Society. The JSE Investment Challenge presented us with the perfect opportunity to practically apply what we were learning,” he says.