Student Organizations

Eagles on Wall Street

Eagles on Wall Street (EoWS) is an experiential learning course for Georgia Southern students. It is structured similarly to study abroad programs, but is domestically based with the travel component set in New York City.

Learn More about Eagles on Wall Street

Finance Association

Do you want to network with the finance community and other finance students? Join the Finance Association!

The Georgia Southern Finance Association is an active business organization that strives to provide its members with valuable information and contacts. As a business organization, we will help maintain communication between the business community and the academic world. Along with valuable career advice, we want to introduce and expand network opportunities for all students wishing to participate in the organization.

Come out and join us in

Discussing finance-related topics
Networking
Guest speaker series
Career advice & strategies

Officers

President: Lincoln Owens
Vice President: Nicholas Milcarek
Treasurer: Aubrey Steadman
Secretary: Hunter Jones
PR: Caleb Lumpkin

Faculty Advisors

Axel Grossmann, Ph.D. (agrossmann@georgiasouthern.edu)
Danielle Smith (daniellesmith@georgiasouthern.edu)

Past Finance Association Meetings

Guest Speaker Events

Sea Island Bank (Commercial Loans)
Mr. Joseph Shuford, VPMr. Brannen Smith, VP

State Farm (Insurance Industry)
Mr. Sam Sharpe

Johnson Control (Mergers & Acq.)
Dr. Mathias Schmitt

Ameriprise Financial (Financial Planning)
Mr. Ronald Wasburn

Source Capital Partners (Equity Firm)
Mr. Benjamin Emmons

Georgia Southern University (Professional Resume)
Mr. William Norton

Option Floor Market Maker
Southern Aquatic Services, LLC
Mr. Steven Kelly Dabb

Gulfstream (Corporate Finance)
Susan Herring
Ansley Drake

Vinings Bank (Fixed Income)
Mr. Todd Makant

Capital Group (Fixed Income)
Mr. Luke Farrell

Safe Systems, Inc. (Chair of the board & CEO)
Danny Johnston

Wells Fargo Capital Finance (Commercial Lending)
Rob Griffin

Arch Advisory Group (Financial Planning)
J.D. Lester

Steve H. Powell & Company (Loan Review & Regulatory Compliance Support)
Steve R. Shepherd

Northwestern Mutual (Financial Advising)
Jack Green

Stifel, Nicolaus & Company, Inc. (Financial Advising)
Steven C. Bacon

Invesco (Senior Portfolio Manager)
Scott Hixon

Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta (Staff Director in Community Bank Supervision)
Marion Williams

Merrill Lynch (Investment Analyst)
Caleb Tucker

Wells Fargo Advisors (Associate Vice President of Investments)
Barret Benton

Finance Association Trip to Federal Reserve Atlanta

Twenty students participated in the group’s visit to the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta. They learned about the structure of the Federal Reserve System, the characteristics of each regional Federal Reserve Bank and the roles they play in the monetary policy, toured the “Money Museum”, saw the cash room where money comes into the FED and visited the Board Room in which the Board of Directors for the Atlanta FED meet.

The members and advisors of the Finance Association would like to thank Mrs. Audrey Williams from the Federal Reserve for all her help organizing the visit as well as the Parker College of Business Dean’s Office and the Department of Finance and Economics for their financial support.

Finance Association Helps DSDA’s Home For Heroes

The Finance Association has joined the Downtown Statesboro Development Authority (DSDA) in their Homes For Heroes project. In the inaugural year of the project, the DSDA along with the Finance Association plans to develop affordable homes for firefighters and police officers in the downtown area and simultaneously help develop the poverty stricken neighborhoods around Main Street. The DSDA purchased three corner homes right off of East Main Street that were built in the 1940s but have not been maintained. The homes were littered with trash and debris, including furniture, countless empty bottles and food containers. Over the course of two weekends the Finance Association devoted their Saturday and Sunday to help entirely clean out the houses and prepare them for construction. The next step will be renovating and updating the houses to make them livable and desirable homes for the heroes of the community and to set them at an affordable price that will allow the DSDA and their sponsors to continue this project in the long-term.

Southern Investment Association (SIA)

About the SIA

The Southern Investment Association is a select group of Georgia Southern University students who seek to increase their knowledge and experience in the field of investments. We apply skills learned in the classroom to actively manage our portfolio. Since our founding in 2014, the SIA has set the highest possible standard as we aim to compete with other student-managed funds. We demonstrate our skills in finance, economics, accounting, and marketing through the development and management of our financial portfolio. We manage a value-based fund and strive to prepare our members for successful careers.

Current Officers

President – Lincoln Owens
Executive VP – Walker Dollar
VP of Investment Strategy – Maverick Boring
VP of Recruitment – Aubrey Steadman
VP of Operations – Thomas Jackson

SIA Membership Benefits

• Real World Investing Experience
• 3 Hour Finance Elective Credit via Professional Certifications Class
• Alumni Mentorship Program and Alumni Network
• Bloomberg Market Concepts Certification
• Thomson Reuters Eikon Certification
• Nathan Ashcroft Scholarship
  • Established in 2019, The Nathan Ashcroft Scholarship is intended to financially assist the most influential SIA member each semester. The SIA is very thankful to Nathan Ashcroft for making this scholarship possible.
    
    Scholarship Recipients
    Joel Varghese (Fall 2019)
    Tyler Collins (Spring 2020)
    Kinley Stubbs (Fall 2020)
    Lincoln Owens (Spring 2021)

Investment Strategy

The fund follows a long-only strategy of value investing in stocks of mid-to-large market capitalization. Value investing involves buying underpriced stocks trading below their intrinsic value. We identify value stocks as those that sell at a discount versus their own intrinsic value as well as the median stock in the respective industry. Additionally, we focus on those underpriced stocks whose fundamentals are above their industry median. The goal of the fund is to continuously outperform Vanguard Value Index as well as the S&P 500 index. Below, we provide a more specific explanation of our investment strategy including a description of the main financial variables utilized in our analysis.

Sia Alumni Hold Positions at The Following Companies