About VVI

Founded in 2017, Victors Value Investments (VVI) is a selective undergraduate finance club at the Ross School of Business with over $20,000 in assets under management. We manage a diversified long-only portfolio of equity stakes, investing in publicly traded U.S. companies across 7 select sectors. To supplement our internal investment experience, we host an annual stock pitch competition in the Tozzi Electronic Business & Finance Center at the Ross School of Business.

Our mission is to develop cohorts of exceptional students who are interested in long-term, fundamentals-based investing. We aim to cultivate disciplined thinking, intellectual curiosity, and strong analytical judgment by teaching how to evaluate businesses from the ground up.

VVI was founded to give students practical exposure to investing beyond theory. We believe that strong investors are built through process, patience, and rigorous analysis.

EDUCATION

Professional Training

Our goal is to help our members secure competitive junior summer internships or full-time analyst positions at top firms and prepare analysts for successful careers in finance.

We accomplish this through a five-part strategy:

1. An educational lecture series covering investing, accounting, capital markets, valuation, and financial modeling.

2. A required year-long stint on our investment committee, covering risk assessment and portfolio management.

3. A multi-day trek to New York City, visiting 10+ top investment banks and buy-side institutions where our alumni work.

4. An intensive recruiting program with resume reviews, mock interviews, and a formal two-part private mentorship program.

5. An event series with private recruiting events, guest speakers, and workshops with industry professionals and alumni.

Flowchart illustrating a progression from WVU Alumni Network to Finance Bootcamp, then New Member Education, and finally Mentorship.

VVI is dedicated to professional and personal development. Every new member obtains a host of informal mentors through our executive board members, sector heads, and committee heads. Additionally, members are paired with a dedicated formal mentor during their first semester and a successful upperclassman recruiting mentor going into sophomore year.
New members embark on a semester-long education with our VPs of Education. The education consists of a final capstone pitch project, teach-ins, presentations from other upperclassmen, and weekly classes. Members receive hands-on training on accounting, investing fundamentals, capital markets, financial modeling, valuation, and macro-economic analysis.
Finance bootcamp is an optional rigorous year-long program for members recruiting for both sell-side and buy-side roles in financial services. Our VPs of Professional Development teach advanced financial concepts, train networking skills, host structured mock interview sessions, and provide extensive interview preparation prior to recruitment.
We work at some of the world’s most respected companies spanning across investment banking, private equity, hedge funds, equity research, management consulting, computer science, engineering, law, medicine, and more. Our alumni often provide feedback and assistance to current members recruiting for these roles. View select firms we work at here.