Growing Future Assets Investment Competition 2026/27

Growing Future Assets is not a stock-picking game dressed up for schools. Future Asset has built the programme around a more useful question: can a group of young people investigate a real company, weigh competing evidence and explain what an investor should think? The company analysis and short pitch make financial judgement visible, while the Teacher Champion and industry coach give teams a route into a field that can otherwise feel closed or overly technical. Its strongest feature is the combination of access and accountability. Teams receive support from someone working in investment, but they still have to own the recommendation and answer for the quality of their reasoning. Hamilton Grammar School and Lasswade High School provide recent examples of teams that came through this structure successfully. The cases matter less as names to emulate than as evidence of the programme's reach across different school communities. From an editorial perspective, the competition is worth watching because it treats finance as a form of evidence-based public reasoning, not merely a career label.