Charles R. Blyth
A part of Occidental’s endowment, the Blyth Fund is a premier six-figure, student-managed investment portfolio.
Established in 1977 with a gift from Richard Link and named in honor of legendary banker Charles Blyth, the Fund was created to give students hands-on experience in investment management and to broaden interest in finance among the most promising of students. (Two other Blyth Funds were created at Stanford and Caltech, but only Stanford’s remains active.) The Fund is wholly student managed: a 14-person board, chosen each spring, studies the stock market and maintains a portfolio. Students buy and sell as they see fit.
The Blyth Fund has two primary goals which have been maintained through its history. They are:
1. Asset Preservation
2. Education
Members are chosen on the basis of academic performance, diversity of backgrounds, interest in investing, and overall ability. Each year, the selection committee aims to replace the graduating seniors with a group of intelligent minds of varying academic and cultural backgrounds to create the most versatile and well-balanced group of investors possible. We strongly believe that success in investing is not a product of pure business knowledge, but of intelligence and diversity of experience combined with an innate desire to learn.
Directors major in a wide variety of fields, including science, politics, economics, diplomacy, mathematics, and many others. We seek to leverage our abilities as intelligent and diverse students in order to identify investment opportunities and differentiate ourselves from most investors. Equally important, all investment opportunities are analyzed from different angles, utilizing our wide array of unique skill sets.
1. Asset Preservation
2. Education
Members are chosen on the basis of academic performance, diversity of backgrounds, interest in investing, and overall ability. Each year, the selection committee aims to replace the graduating seniors with a group of intelligent minds of varying academic and cultural backgrounds to create the most versatile and well-balanced group of investors possible. We strongly believe that success in investing is not a product of pure business knowledge, but of intelligence and diversity of experience combined with an innate desire to learn.
Directors major in a wide variety of fields, including science, politics, economics, diplomacy, mathematics, and many others. We seek to leverage our abilities as intelligent and diverse students in order to identify investment opportunities and differentiate ourselves from most investors. Equally important, all investment opportunities are analyzed from different angles, utilizing our wide array of unique skill sets.