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Europe's First Student Managed Fund. Trinity Student Managed Fund (Trinity SMF) is the first student managed fund in Irish history.

It is comprised of a real-life financial portfolio managed by a team of committed undergraduate and postgraduate students under the guidance of an advisory board of investment industry experts. The primary aim of Trinity SMF is to provide Trinity students an unparalleled and self-sustaining educational resource which bestows upon them experience in business analysis, investing and risk management.

In the fulfilment of this aim Trinity SMF will also seek to make a contribution to our community. Thus, while the majority of profits on investments will be reinvested to see the fund grow in perpetuity, a proportion will be donated to non-profit organisations through the Trinity Foundation. The Fund has access to institutional brokerage and research services from Davy Stockbrokers as well as AIB and RBS market research reports. Deloitte provide advice on auditing and taxation issues.

04/08/2026

🎙 FULL EPISODE OUT NOW 🎙 Google’s Global Managing Director on how AI may close the gap between the developed and emerging world. Available on Spotify, Youtube and Apple Podcasts. Link in bio.

28/07/2026

🎙️ New Episode | Bethany McLean, The Journalist Who Broke Enron | Author, “The Smartest Guys in the Room”
Tune in as Matthew Barnes sits down with Bethany McLean, the former Goldman Sachs analyst turned investigative reporter, who wrote the famous article ‘Is Enron Overpriced’.
Months later, it was (then) the largest corporate bankruptcy in U.S. history. Bethany went on to write the definitive books on Enron (“The Smartest Guys in the Room”) and the 2008 crisis (“All the Devils Are Here”) and is now a contributing editor at Vanity Fair.
In this episode:
▪️ How she broke the Enron story as a young reporter
▪️ 2008 | The GSEs, Ratings Agencies, and the Government
▪️ AI’s strategic role in Geopolitics
▪️ Lessons for today’s young professionals

Out now on Spotify, YouTube, and Apple Podcasts. 📎Link in bio!

30/06/2026

🎙️ New Episode | Brendan McDonagh - Former CEO, HSBC North America | Chairman, PEAL Capital
The Trinity SMF Podcast is back! Tune in as Matthew Barnes sits down with Brendan McDonagh, former CEO of HSBC North America, Chairman at PEAL Capital, and Former Deputy Chair at AIB, to hear how he thinks about leadership, lessons from the crisis, and building a career across continents.
Brendan spent three decades at HSBC, rising to become CEO of HSBC North America, one of the largest financial institutions in the United States. Brendan led the turnaround of Butterfield Bank in Bermuda and has just recently stepped down from his role as Deputy Chairman of AIB after 9 years. He is now Chairman at PEAL Capital, a Private Equity Firm investing in longevity and hormones. Brendan is also an alum of Trinity College Dublin and serves on the Audit Committee🌍
In this episode:
🔹 His first role & The Irish postal strike of 1979
🔹 The 35,000 emails and a nationwide roadshow | Lessons on leadership
🔹 Testifying before Congress | Leading HSBC North America through the financial crisis
🔹 The turnaround of Butterfield Bank in Bermuda
🔹 The lessons he would give every young professional today

▶️ Out now on Spotify, YouTube, and Apple Podcasts. Links below. 👇
🔗 Spotify - https://open.spotify.com/show/2KCU3PAzG5vzeg6nKshDvk?si=54cfa709191d468f
🔗 Youtube - https://www.youtube.com/
🔗 Apple Podcasts - https://podcasts.apple.com/sk/podcast/trinity-smf-podcast/id1534318333

27/04/2026

We are pleased to announce the next installation of our Country Reports from the Trinity Student Managed Fund’s Research team. Thank you to our Head of Research Cathal O’Brien, for facilitating this. Special thanks to co-authors Seamus Kavanagh, Conor Bowe, Daniel Schwer and Rory Lenaghan McErlean for their hard work on this report.

If you are interested in learning more about the Japanese economy, this report is for you! It provides an overview and analysis of political developments, economic policies, our outlook, and more! Link in bio to read full report!

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