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Triton Investments doubles seed money and returns $50,000 to UOG

Triton Investments doubles seed money and returns $50,000 to UOG

Triton Investments doubles seed money and returns $50,000 to UOG


4/25/2022

Triton Investments doubles seed money and returns $50,000 to UOG
(From left) UOG Senior Vice President & Provost Anita Borja Enriquez; UOG President Thomas Krise; Associate Professor Leila Kabigting, Triton Investments adviser; Triton Investments officers Jude John Bautista, Christina Ha'ani Cruz, Elthea Miguel, Ulysses Story, Jomar Calumaya, and Thor Hauerbach; SBPA Dean Annette Santos; and UOG Vice President of Administration & Finance and Chief Business Officer Randy Wiegand.

After doubling the value of its investment portfolio, the University of Guam Triton Investments student organization — formerly the Student Investment Club — has returned its seed money of $50,000 to the University of Guam.

“Life is like investing in the stock market: There are highs and lows, but with knowledge and resilience, you can find success in both.”

– Christina Ha’ani Ichihara Cruz, President of Triton Investments

The UOG Board of Regents entrusted the student organization with the seed money in 2007 to give students an opportunity to gain real-world investment experience and develop skills and abilities in managing an investment portfolio. Triton Investments grew the portfolio to more than $72,000 in 2017. Then, after the board reset the portfolio to $50,000, the student organization more than doubled the investment to $102,000 in November 2021.

The BOR passed Resolution No. 22-09 in February to recognize the student organization for its achievement.

Associate Professor of Finance Leila C. Kabigting, the faculty adviser of Triton Investments and chair of the Professional Master of Business Administration program, said Triton Investments allows students to apply what they have learned in their finance and economics classes, especially BA-323 Corporate Finance and BA-421 Investments & Real Estate.

Students analyze macroeconomic and corporate news to evaluate each company’s stock in the portfolio. Past and present Triton Investments executive boards commit to being fiduciaries of the investment portfolio, and market indices are used to benchmark the portfolio’s performance.

“Each executive board has its own investing style, which keeps Triton Investments very much dynamic,” Kabigting said.

Aside from managing its portfolio, Triton Investments reaches out to the community through its financial literacy presentations.

Triton Investments officers
Triton Investments officers (from left) Vice President of Finance Thor Hauerbach, Vice President of Administration Ulysses Story, President Christina Ha'ani Cruz, Adviser and UOG Associate Professor of Finance Leila Kabigting, Vice President of Investments Jude John Bautista, and Vice President of Records Jomar Calumaya.
As Triton Investments President Christina Ha’ani Cruz said, “Life is like investing in the stock market: There are highs and lows, but with knowledge and resilience, you can find success in both.”

Cruz is joined by the following executive board members in managing the portfolio under the guidance of their faculty adviser: 

  • Elthea Miguel, Senior Vice President 
  • Jude John Bautista, Vice President – Investments 
  • Jomar Calumaya, Vice President – Records 
  • Thor Bjorn Hauerbach, Vice President – Finance 
  • Ulysses Sebastian Story, Vice President – Administration

The board credits valuable contributions of past executive boards led by former president Jonathan Pablo from 2017–2018 and former president Josiah Lanuza from 2018–2020.