Texas Southern University · Jesse H. Jones School of Business
Student Investment & Financial Literacy Club
Learn how money and markets work, then test your ideas on a $100,000 student portfolio.
Thursdays at 7:00 PM in the Jesse H. Jones School of Business
Free for every TSU student, any major
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What we do
SIFLC helps Texas Southern students learn personal finance and investing by doing it. Every major is welcome, and nobody needs prior experience because the first workshops start with how to read a stock quote.
Learn
Our workshops cover budgeting, credit, saving, and investing in plain language, and we rewrite any lesson that members find hard to follow.
Practice
Members manage a $100,000 paper portfolio on MarketWatch. Prices are real and the money is pretend, which makes mistakes cheap and useful.
Pitch
After researching a company and writing a thesis, you present it to judges who score the pitch out of 100 and send back written comments.
Connect
Professionals visit every semester. This fall that means the Energy Finance Roundtable, and the year ends with a networking event.
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Coming up
- Oct8
Interest Meeting and Orientation
Thursday, 7:00 PM · Jesse H. Jones School of Business, Room 107
Find out how the club runs, meet the e-board, and sign up. Every TSU student can attend for free.
- Oct22
Financial Literacy and Investment Workshop
Thursday, 7:00 PM · Jesse H. Jones School of Business
This session compares short-term and long-term investing and explains how the portfolio game works. The student portfolio competition opens once it ends.
- Nov19
Building a Portfolio and Pitch Prep
Thursday, 7:00 PM · Jesse H. Jones School of Business
Learn how to put positions together, how large each one should be, and how to prepare a pitch.
- SoonTBA
SIFLC Energy Finance Roundtable
Date to be announced
Industry guests discuss risk, value, and decision-making in the energy sector.
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The gap we are closing
HBCU students want to build wealth and few are given the tools to do it. SIFLC brings those tools to campus.
89%
of HBCU students report financial stress, regardless of income
UNCF Institute for Capacity Building, 2026
35%
of personal finance questions answered correctly by Black Americans
TIAA Institute-GFLEC, 2019
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A manual for members
Rookie is a first-year student who starts with a single stock quote and ends with a full portfolio. The member manual follows him the whole way, using real company numbers and real report layouts. Members unlock it with the club passcode.