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Over the winter interim, Trustee Scholar Emmett Jusino ’08 (Freeport, N.Y.) spent four days getting a taste of the investment industry by shadowing an alumnus on Wall Street.
Jusino worked with economics graduate Mitchell Winter ’79, senior vice president for investments at Merrill Lynch in Manhattan. Jusino is the second student Winter has hosted through Lafayette’s externship program. He considers the program to be a terrific way to help current students at his alma mater.
Jusino enjoyed working with Winter, who made him feel like a member of his team.
“Mr. Winter took the time to explain things to me that I did not understand and to talk with me every day about what was going on and what the day would involve,” he says.
Winter tried to provide Jusino, a double major in economics & business and music, with a variety of experiences during the externship.
“He got a chance to observe as well as lend a hand,” Winter says.
Jusino observed meetings with prospective and current clients of the company’s wealth management services division and assisted Winter with writing client proposals. He also attended meetings involving planning and organization strategies for Winter’s work group. The two also discussed trading strategies involving the bond market and other fixed income securities.
“I learned a great deal about what it is like to work in private client services, both from talking to Mr. Winter and from talking to other members of his work group,” Jusino says. “It was interesting to learn about the trading and active management part of the job. This externship was an exciting one for me because it gave me confidence that working in the finance field would be something I would enjoy.”
Jusino believes his experience with trading will give him an edge in his business classes. The externship also started him on the habit of following current financial news through the Wall Street Journal and other sources.
“Keeping up on current trends will certainly help in school and in whatever future career I choose,” he says.
After Lafayette, Jusino plans to enter the workforce and pursue an M.B.A.
Last year, Jusino collaborated with George Torres, associate professor of music; economics and business major Jessica Bigness ’07 (East Stroudsburg, Pa.); electrical and computer engineering major Christopher Jacoby ’07 (Madison, N.J.); and neuroscience major Brad Maurer ’07(Loveland, Ohio) on research on obscure Latin jazz through the Community of Scholars program. He is a member of Guitar Ensemble and tutors children at the Boys and Girls Club through the Landis Community Outreach Center.
Selected from among Lafayette’s top applicants, Trustee Scholars like Jusino have distinguished themselves through exceptional academic achievement in high school. Lafayette provides them with an annual minimum scholarship of $7,500 ($8,000 effective with the Class of 2009) or a grant in the full amount of their demonstrated need if the need is more than $7,500.