The mission of DePaul Investment Group (DIG) is to provide DePaul University students with financial knowledge, investment strategies, and hands-on experience in trading and investment management careers. The organization aims to bridge the gap between academic finance and practical investing, helping members understand and navigate financial markets.
DePaul Investment Group members attend a Securities of Trading Association Young Professionals event on 'Blazing Your Path Into Market Data' presented at the Old Post Office
Students will be exposed to a niche area of finance of trading and investment management through workshops, guest speakers, and build knowledge about the financial markets. Students will also meet other like-minded finance individuals and build a community to last throughout their careers.
At DIG, we make it our main priority to host events that are exclusive to our club. We use our personal network to find speakers.
We have an interview only quant team within our club called the City Quants. The City Quants compete in trading tournaments year-round.
The DIG Newsletter is our member's favorite product. It consists of regular market updates, trading ideas, trivia, and our next events.
With no clubs at DePaul that focused on trading and quantitative finance, Demetri Frangiadakis set out to build DePaul Investment Group to cater towards traders, mathematicians, and computer scientists looking for a community of like-minded individuals.
The first major success with DIG events was a four part series from different employees at the Options Clearing Corporation. The topics covered in this series were options clearing, market data, options quotes, and risk management.
Demetri calls Thomas Zaborenko, a financial mathematics student at DePaul who had shared the same ideas and passion to create the best trading club at DePaul University. Thomas and his quant team join DIG.
Although DIG is primarily focused on trading, our student board hosted the largest event of 2025 at DePaul University with Goldman Sachs. This event had over 100 students attend with a pizza party to cap it off.
We hit off the new year with star hosts from tastylive who brought a copy of Julia Spina's book 'The Unlucky Investor's Guide to Options Trading'. The event started with personal finance, then moved to options 101, and capped it off with a few options strategies.
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"By attending many DIG events, it helped me establish a network in Chicago and led me to find some of my best friends."
Alumni Highlight - Matt Kulis
