<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><item href="/news/blog/2023/student-investment-fund.php" dsn="blogs"><type>Internal</type><external_link/><featured/><category>The Charger Blog</category><pubDate>02/23/2023</pubDate><title>University's New Investment Fund Enables Students to Take Charge as Investors</title><description>As part of their work with the University’s Gaia Initiative, students are gaining real-world experience through a student-led environmental, social, and governance (ESG) investment fund – the first of its kind at the University. With the support of their faculty mentors and a generous alum, they’re learning to manage a type of fund that’s becoming increasingly of interest to investors.</description><hide-description/><author>Renee Chmiel, Office of Marketing and Communications</author><author-details/><hide-author/><date>February 23, 2023</date><image><img src="/_resources/images/business/news/2023/orange-campus-building.jpg" alt="Orange Campus"/></image><image-caption>The University’s campus in Orange, Conn.</image-caption><hide-image/><tags><tag>News</tag><tag>news-all</tag><tag>news-blog</tag><tag>year-2023</tag></tags></item>