Finance track · Designed by CMT Association
The Fund Manager Challenge
Question the AI. Build a fund that survives.
You act as a fund manager for a family saving for their daughter's university fees. You build a simple set of rules that decides where the family's money goes, test those rules on past market data, and then seal your fund so it can be tested on periods you have never seen. Along the way you check charts drawn by an AI, find its mistakes, and judge its advice. You need no finance background and no coding.
Learn
Learn the ideas
Seven short lessons, a glossary and a rulebook planner. Then join the workshop led by CMT Association on Google Meet, 21 November 2026, 6:00–8:00 PM IST.
Open the learning packPractice
Practice in the sandbox
Build a fund with the five building blocks and run as many tests as you like on US market data from 1960–1969. Nothing in the sandbox is scored.
Open the sandboxCompete
Two rounds
The elimination round on 22 November 2026, 11:00 AM–1:00 PM IST. The top 30 reach the final on 29 November 2026. Twenty students win.
How the rounds work
Key dates
Your journey at a glance
All times are India Standard Time (IST). UAE students: subtract 1 hour 30 minutes for Gulf Standard Time (GST).
Portal opens
12 November 2026
Activate your account and open the practice sandbox.
Workshop
21 November 2026
6:00–8:00 PM IST
On Google Meet, led by CMT Association.
Elimination round
22 November 2026
11:00 AM–1:00 PM IST (9:30–11:30 AM GST)
Online, 120 minutes, one clock for everyone.
Shortlist
22 November 2026
By 6:00 PM IST
The top 30 reach the final.
Final round
29 November 2026
Start time set by Edept
Online, about 2 hours 10 minutes. Results the same day.
Recognition event
5 December 2026
Tentative
WUD campus, Sonipat, run by Edept.