Est. 2026 · Ithaca, New York
Real research. Real capital. Emerging markets.
The Mobius Emerging Markets Fund Foundation is a not-for-profit that teaches university students to research, debate and invest in emerging-market companies, and then gives them a real portfolio to do it with.
Our mission
Real capital, for real learning.
Paper trading and classroom cases only go so far. Our students build their skills on an actual Emerging Markets Portfolio, because some lessons only come from managing real money.
The Foundation is a New York not-for-profit corporation organized for charitable and educational purposes. Every dollar it manages is there to educate.
- Advance public understanding of emerging-market economies and capital markets.
- Provide applied investment-analysis and portfolio-management education to university students.
- Steward charitable capital prudently and in service of these purposes.
- Promote transparency, accountability and sound stewardship of Foundation assets.
The program
From new member to analyst.
Every analyst first completes our New Member Education program, a training course in emerging-markets investing run by the Fund Managers. Only students who complete it join the investment team.
New Member Education
Our first class learns the fundamentals: macro and country risk, company analysis, valuation, and how to write and defend a pitch.
Investing begins
Onboarded analysts start researching and pitching. Fund Managers build the Emerging Markets Portfolio from their work.
Review & renewal
The Board of Directors reviews the Fund’s performance and reporting, and each year a new class is trained to continue the work.
How we’re organized
Student-run, with experienced oversight.
Board of Directors
The governing body. It sets strategy, oversees reporting and compliance, and reviews the Fund’s performance and management.
Fund Managers
Students who run the education program and the day-to-day investment work, and decide on portfolio actions based on analyst research.
Analysts
Students who have completed New Member Education. They research companies and markets and pitch ideas to the Fund Managers.
Our namesake
In the spirit of Mark Mobius.
Dr. Mark Mobius spent more than three decades showing the world that emerging markets were worth taking seriously, and that the way to understand them was to go and see for yourself.
He was a generous mentor to students. This Foundation carries his name and his conviction that curious young people, given real responsibility, can do remarkable things.
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