Caption: Daniel Choi, the founder of the Stocks Club, talks about the necessity of financial education in college.
Photo credit: Seohyun Kim, a staff writer in The Voice
By buying stocks from different companies, you become a partial owner of them. By owning stocks, university students can learn how to maximize profit from investments and how to protect their savings from external crises. This is more practical than traditional education from textbooks. Considering such advantages, the Stocks Club at George Mason University Korea was established by Daniel Choi (MK, Business, ’27) in the 2023 Fall semester.
The Stocks Club mainly invests in one chosen company and sees whether it works in the long term throughout the whole semester. It also hosts lecture series and education sessions in finance-related fields. When asked about the key goal of the club, Daniel replied, “University students need to learn how to protect their finances in dangerous situations that are unexpected to their own life. The Stocks Club aims to provide such practical education by forming a community with common interests from diverse areas.”
“No matter how smart and professional you are, anybody can do stocks. If you are only dedicated to learning stocks focused on your favored topic or whatever interests you, there is no limitation to starting it,” said Daniel. He consistently emphasized unrestrictive accessibility to begin stocks regardless of majors and interests. In fact, there are lots of tools to help beginners such as stock mutual funds, which refer to products that pool capital from multiple individual investors to purchase and manage investment assets. Such products provide the convenience of automatic investment depending on individual investment strategies.
In terms of the direction of economic education for Mason students, Daniel mentioned, “Students should learn how to spend money through experiences such as buying books and going to museums. Education needs to include analyzing their spending and practicing investment toward experiences without making them feel guilty.”
“Stocks is meant for everyone. Stocks are not about numbers; it is about philosophy,” was his last interview comment. He strongly expects students to acquire beneficial knowledge regarding long-term wealth creation through collaboration and networking in the club. The Voice of Mason Korea looks forward to students who are joining to invest with the Stocks Club.
Written by Seohyun Kim |Staff Writer
Revised by Madison Sailakkham |Managing Editor
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