Home
Securities transactions
This section describes all aspects of securities transactions in a Bourstad simulation, both transactions carried out following transaction orders given by participants and transactions resulting from dividends or splits.
Type of portfolios and categories of securities
The participants in the Bourstad Challenge are divided into two types of portfolios. The selection of securities proposed for the Bourstad Challenge includes 17 categories of securities or financial assets.
Securities of the Bourstad Portfolio
Which securities may trade the manager of a Bourstad portfolio.
Exchange-traded index funds of the Bourstad Portfolio
Managers of a Bourstad Portfolio may trade in the participating units of 77 exchange-traded index mutual funds.
Precious metals fund
Participants in the simulation may trade 2 gold bullion funds held in a secure depository.

Precious metals fund

Participants in the simulation may trade 2 gold bullion funds held in a secure depository.

One of these funds is managed and maintained in Canada and trades on the Toronto Stock Exchange, the other trades on the New York Stock Exchange.