Macro Risk Advisors Launches University of Chicago Booth School of Business Scholarship Fund

NEW YORK, Jan. 4, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Macro Risk Advisors (MRA), a leading provider of global market risk analysis and trade execution for institutional investors, today announced it has established the Macro Risk Advisors Scholarship Fund at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business.

Beginning in the 2012 academic year, the lifetime endowment will award a two-year scholarship of $25,000 annually to a student enrolled in the full-time MBA program. The scholarship will be awarded every other year. This endowment will support students demonstrating heightened aptitude and exceptional potential in the study of finance. Prospective students can apply at www.ChicagoBooth.edu.

"Chicago Booth is one of the country's foremost business schools with a best-in-class student body," said Dean Curnutt, the founder and CEO of MRA and a 1996 Booth graduate, who received the Citibank Award for best performance in finance as a student. "My two years at Booth provided an unmatched foundation for my professional pursuits, generating the insight and network to launch an independent risk advisory firm."

"It is always gratifying when our alumni give back to support our current students," said Sunil Kumar, Booth dean and George Pratt Shultz Professor of Operations Management. "We are very grateful to Macro Risk Advisors for financially assisting some of our most talented students." 

About Macro Risk Advisors

Macro Risk Advisors is an equity derivatives strategy and execution firm headquartered in New York and specializing in translating proprietary market intelligence into specific trading ideas for its clients. MRA provides services to a client base of institutional and alternative managers, collectively with AUM in excess of $150 billion.  The company is a FINRA-registered broker-dealer. For more information, visit www.macroriskadvisors.com or MRAD < GO > on Bloomberg.

About University of Chicago Booth School of Business

The University of Chicago Booth School of Business is one of the leading business schools in the world. The school's faculty includes many renowned scholars and its graduates include many business leaders across the U.S. and worldwide. The Chicago Approach to Management Education is distinguished by how it leverages fundamental knowledge, its rigor, and its practical application to business challenges. Chicago Booth offers a full-time M.B.A. program, an evening M.B.A. program, a weekend M.B.A. program and an executive M.B.A. program in Chicago, London and Singapore. The school also offers a Ph.D. program, open enrollment executive education and custom corporate education.

SOURCE Macro Risk Advisors