University Securities Investment Team

University of Texas at Austin's largest premier investing organization.

Our Story

The University Securities Investment Team (USIT) was founded in 2010 by Forrest Wilkinson and Harvey Powers to address a need at UT for comprehensive investing teaching. USIT’s mission was and remains the engagement of students in an educational and interactive atmosphere that promotes personal, occupational, and academic growth through active securities investing.

Since its inception in 2010, USIT has grown from a small handful of members to UT’s largest, premier investing organization with a $50K+ student-run portfolio and 300+ members of all majors. From general meetings to analyst groups to industry funds, USIT offers its members numerous avenues to learn and pursue their interests. Members of USIT have gone on to pursue investment banking, consulting, entrepreneurship, private equity, corporate finance, and graduate school, just to name a few.

Additionally, USIT provides interested members with supplementary training in quantitative finance and applied data science through its Quantitative Market Intelligence (QMI) division. By enabling all members to advance highly-sought after technical skills, QMI empowers USIT members to become quantitatively intelligent investors and business leaders.

Beginning in 2020, USIT expanded further into a philanthropy fund to allow members to both experience a private equity style of due diligence as well as foster a broader sense of the meaning of return on investment. The Philanthropy Investment Team (PIT) gives away 100k a year to select charities decided by the Giving Committee and students.

Due to our strength as both an educational and social organization focused on expanding the opportunities of students interested in finance, we have been named as McCombs' Most Outstanding Organization in 2012, 2015, 2017, and 2021 and Finalist for Best Professional Organization in 2018 UT Swing Out Awards.

With some of the brightest, most hard-working peers you can ask for and an alumni network spanning the globe, USIT is one of the best communities you can join in college!