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The Parker Center is widely acknowledged to be at the pinnacle of graduate education in investment research and asset management. What sets us apart is our combination of innovative, high-impact research; our student-managed hedge fund; superb teaching, and unparalleled electronic facilities.
- We produce and disseminate leading-edge research of critical value to investment managers.
- Our $14+ million Cayuga MBA Fund is operated by a team of student fund managers who receive continuous feedback and advice from our world-class faculty and a group of senior investment professionals who serve as advisors.
- Our innovative education draws from our depth of faculty in every area of finance, accounting, economics, and all aspects of management, and offers students immersions and exceptional applied performance-learning opportunities.
- Our Robert S. Boas Trading Room and Richard A. Marin Family Investment Studio are equipped with analytical software and data feeds valued at more than $1.8 million in annual licensing fees - an array that outstrips many Wall Street firms.
- The Parker Center is named in honor of a generous gift from alumnus Jeffrey P. Parker (MBA '70), now retired. He founded and served as CEO of CCBN, Managing Director of Private Equity Investments, and a founder of First Call. Jeff remains actively engaged as an advisor to the Parker Center as well as to the Johnson School as a whole.
A Word from Jeffrey Parker"In 1997, the Johnson School embarked on fulfilling an ambitious vision of integrating leading-edge research and teaching in capital markets with the real-world resources and practice of investment management. Within a very short time, the school created a significant investment fund and built a state-of-the-art teaching platform where students work with real-time data and analytical software that surpasses that available at many Wall Street firms."
"The Johnson School's Parker Center provides students the unique opportunity of managing real money for real investors, of interacting on a business level with investment professionals, and of being exposed to the faculty's world-class research findings in equity valuation and capital markets.
"Johnson School students have more than proved their mettle. The Cayuga MBA Fund's performance has been stellar, and its student fund managers have gone on to make real contributions to the professional investment industry."
Jeffrey P. Parker '70
Chair, Parker Center Advisory Board
