Hoperation Fund
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We Invest.
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We Educate.
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About the Hoperation Fund
The Hoperation Fund is a student-led charitable investment fund committed to raising capital, investing in the stock market, and directing its profits to often-overlooked nonprofits, especially those supporting human welfare, environmental protection, and education in underserved communities.
At the same time, we seek to bridge the gap between school and real life by helping students develop essential financial skills that are often overlooked in traditional education, including saving, budgeting, and investing, so they are better prepared to take charge of their financial future.
Latest News
(Meeting #115) Hoperation Fund will host its 115th meeting at 9:00 AM Central Time on June 21. In this meeting, Ms. Olivia Zhang and Dr. Zhilin Zhang will analyze the stock market and discuss risk control strategies. Please contact Hoperation Fund for the Zoom link if you are interested.
(Meeting #114) On June 20 at 9:00 AM Central Time, Hoperation Fund will host its 114th meeting, which is also the 2nd talk of the Quantitative Trading Lecture Series. The President Ms. Olivia Zhang will give a talk on Empirical Asset Pricing via Machine Learning. Based on the paper by Gu, Kelly, and Xiu, the session will introduce how machine learning can be used to predict stock returns, rank stocks, and construct long-short portfolios. The talk will also discuss why nonlinear models, such as tree-based methods and neural networks, can improve empirical asset pricing. Please contact Hoperation Fund to receive the Zoom link.
(Meeting #113) On June 16 at 10:00 AM (Central Time), Hoperation Fund will hold its 113th meeting, discussing the ARK Invest’s report, Big Ideas 2026. The session will be hosted by our advisor, Dr. Zhilin Zhang. Please contact Hoperation Fund to receive the Zoom link.
(Meeting #112) On June 14, Hoperation Fund and Lumos AI Club will cohost an AI roundtable meeting. During the meeting, students will watch two lectures on synthetic media and deepfake technology, presented by Prof. Hany Farid from UC Berkeley and Prof. Luisa Verdoliva from the University of Naples Federico II. For more details, please check the email from Hoperation Fund.
(Meeting #111) On June 13, Hoperation Fund will hold the first lecture in its Quantitative Trading Lecture Series. The lecture, titled “Time Series Forecasting Using Foundation Models,” will cover topics including the evolution from statistical models to foundation models in forecasting, zero-shot prediction and TimeGPT, challenges in real-world time series data, explainability in deep learning models, and the future of forecasting and AI. For more details, please check the email from Hoperation Fund.
