McCombs TODAY

The Austin American-Statesman, March 31, 2009

There’s one word that University of Texas graduate business students Brittany Braden and Kullen Kifer used to describe what it’s like to be faced with the prospect of managing $11 million in real money during what may be the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression: humbling.

“There is a lot of stress involved in just being responsible for investors’ money,” said Braden, 28.

Braden and Kifer are part of a group of about 20 graduate business students chosen from a pool of dozens at the McCombs School of Business to participate in the MBA Investment Fund and manage millions of dollars in three separate funds consisting of money from 60 investors for an entire fiscal year, from March through the end of February. Read more.