PCI History
Founded in November of 2000 as the Student Endowment Investment Group, Pioneer Capital Investments (PCI) strives to educate students about financial markets. PCI was established through a $100,000 grant by the college’s endowment and has been student run since its inception. Continuously operating for almost two decades, the group has taught generations of Grinnell students investing skills.
PCI consists of a diverse collection of students. Members include students of all graduating classes and many majors, both domestic and international students, and students of varying levels of expertise in the financial markets. With this distinct blend of students, the group is able to analyze multiple viewpoints before making a decision regarding the portfolio.
The key purpose of PCI is to educate students. We also bring in guest speakers such as professors, alumni, and other people from around the community who have experience in finance, accounting, investment management and mathematics.
Join Us
Weekly Meeting8:00 PM Wednesdays
HSSC 3118
For general questions we invite you to send us an email.
E: invest@grinnell.eduFor website changes, please open a pull request if able. Otherwise, send an email.
GitHub: PCI-WebsiteE: hodsonsi@grinnell.edu
Portfolio
Accessing the portfolio, which displays all current holdings and their gross returns, requires logging into the PCI Grinnell Yahoo account login.
Reccomended Resources
Reading financial books, papers, and news is the best way to become familiar with investment terminology and opportunities.
Grinnell College Endownment
Pioneer Capital Investments operates under the supervision of the Grinnell College Office of Investments.
Recomended Resources, in no particular order
Books
- (Textbook) Investment Banking, Joshua Rosenbaum & Joshua Pearl
- (Textbook) Security Analysis, Benjamin Graham & David Dodd
- The Intelligent Investor, Benjamin Graham
- The Most Important Thing, Howard Marks
- The Complete Investor, Charlie Munger
- A Random Walk Down Wall Street, Burton Malkiel
- Shareholder Letters, Warren Buffett
- Irrational Exuberance, Robert Shiller
- Inside the Black Box, Rishi Narang
- The Signal and the Noise, Nate Silver
- (Narrative) More Money Than God, Sebastian Mallaby
- (Narrative) The Quants, Scott Patterson
- (Narrative) Flash Boys, Michael Lewis
- (Narrative) The Snowball, Alice Schroeder
- (Narrative) Barbarians at the Gate, Bryan Burrough & John Helyar
- (Narrative) Liar’s Poker, Michael Lewis
- (Narrative) Too Big to Fail, Andrew Sorkin
- (Narrative) The Big Short, Michael Lewis
News & Blogs
- Bloomberg
- Wall Street Journal
- Value Investors Club
- Musings on Markets, Aswath Damodaran
More
- Bloomberg Terminal (Burling)
- Quantopian
- Bloomberg Market Concepts (Short Course)
