Department of Commerce (Investment Management) - Activities

Activities & Events Conducted in Academic Year 2025-2026

Event : Participative Learning Workshop

Date : 21/06/2025

Venue : Room no 611

Faculty : Abhijit Ray

Number of learners : 22

With an objective to sharpen the skills of group discussion, team spirit, presentation, and practical learning  on the subject of commodity markets of the third year learners the department organized a participative learning activity. The learners were  divided into separate groups and given separate topics related to current affairs in commodity markets. Each group discussed their topics and presented before other groups. To increase the excitement the activity was gamified by providing point on their performance by the supervising faculty.

Outcome : Learners were deeply engrossed in the discussion and asked questions beyond the syllabus.

Event : Public Speaking activity

Venue : Room number 611

Date : 26/06/2025

Faculty : Dr Rumpa Sanpui

Number of learners : 20

With an objective to enhance the public speaking capacity of the outgoing learners of the department, a public speaking activity was conducted in which the learners were given hands on training on different topics. They were taught the nuances of public speaking and encouraged to apply them in front of the entire class. 

Event : Educational visit to MCX, India’s most important commodity exchange

Date : 11.07.2025

Number of learners : 29

With an objective to provide the learners an experiential learning opportunity, and deepen the industry institute connect the department arranged an educational visit to Multi Commodity Exchange (MCX),  the world’s 7th largest commodity exchange and India’s largest by value. The learners experienced a feel of the exchange, which they learn in their syllabus, derivatives, commodity market functioning in the exchange in a practical manner. The participation was interactive and learners were excited by this visit. 

Outcome : As an instance of deepening industry connect, Mr Saurav Khanna, from MCX  visited in our college to participate in the panel discussion. The learners were able to understand the concepts and reproduce it in their subsequent exams.

Event : Sampark --  An Alumni Interaction event

Name of Alumni : Sujal Thakur, passed out in 2024, CFA Level 1, NISM Series VB, X, XII, XV

Venue : Room no : 611

Date : 14/07/2025

Number of third year learners present : 30

The department of Investment Management believes in maintaining a strong bond between the learners even after they have successfully passed out of the institution. The illustrious alumni was invited to give a academic counselling talk on how to pass the NISM exams, CFA, skills they need to master. The third year learners were benefitted by the same. 

Outcome : Fenil Shah has appeared for NISM (Series V)

Event : Antar Prerna – An event on entrepreneurship

Date : 05/09/2025

Venue : Seminar Hall, First floor

Resource Persons : Ms Sridevi Shetty, Executive Director at Kuberan’s Startup Education Pvt. Ltd.

                    Ms Anupama Padhi, Founder Dhaani Foods

                    Ms Bhavini Parikh, Founder, BunkoJunko, Social Entrepreneur

Number of participants : 389

With an objective to encourage the spirit of entrepreneurship especially among girls, the department carried ahead with legacy of organizing the event on women entrepreneurship. The women entrepreneurs who had been successful but had risen from humble backgrounds were invited to speak on their journey and enthuse the young learners to take up entrepreneurship as their profession. The event ended with a Q & A session. To attach an uniqueness, the event was entirely organized by the girl learners of the department.

Event : Contrarian – Department Distinctiveness

Venue : First floor Seminar Hall

Date : 13/09/2025

Resource Person : Mr. Arup Mukherjee, former MD & CEO, India International Clearing Corp. Ltd

Mr Nipul Shah, Investment advisor

                    Mr Saurav Khanna , Manager, Training & Education, MCX

    Mr Nalin Karn, Manager, AXIS Asset Mnagement

                                  Mr Vidit Chaturvedi, Deputy Manager, Bandhan Asset Managenent Company

Number of learners : 289                     

The department of Investment Management  organized its premier event of department distinctiveness  tiled Contrarian in which industry experts from Commodity markets, mutual fund managers, Equity markets converged at the college to participate in two panel discussions on the Themes: 1. Navigating investment through current crosswindz    2.  VIKSIT BHARAT 2047: clearing the mist for the youth. The panel discussions were moderated by learners of the department. Leraners from the entire college was the audience. It was an academia industry connect with the faculties participating from the audience. The resource persons praised the initiative and promised to take part in previous sessions to help learners get an industry exposure.

Event : Career Counselling Session

Venue : Room no 609

Date : 20/9/25

Resource Person : Dr Amanpal Singh Chawla, Executive Director, Skillspade Solutions

Number of learners : 91

With an objective to provide the learners the opportunity of understanding the career options available to the finance learners and the skillset that is required to be developed, the department organized a career counselling session for the learners of the  department.

Event : Gender Equity ---A guest lecture on workplace ethics

Venue : Room no 609

Date : 25/9/25

Number of participants : 89

Resource person : Melrita Mascarenhas,  Director,  Marsh McLennan, heading the Employee Relations

With an objective to sensitise learners about workplace ethics, gender sensetisation and POSH Act the department carried out a guest lecture on gender equity. The speaker eloquently interacted with the learners and explained the importance of the topic in days to come.