CFA Institute Research Challenge

« The CFA Institute Research Challenge is an equity research competition among student teams from the world’s top university business and finance programs. Students write an equity research report on a publicly-traded company and present their findings to an expert panel. The teams are judged and a winner selected based on their written reports and presentations. Throughout the competition, leading investment professionals volunteer as mentors and judges, and teach the students the best practices in equity research and corporate analysis ».

Source: CFA Society Switzerland

CFA Society Switzerland CFA Institute Research Challenge

Our students in the challenge

Since 2014 our students have been taking part of the CFA Institute Research Challenge.

15 February 2024

Swiss Final – 1st place!

Five MScF students, representing the University of Neuchâtel, won the final of the prestigious CFA Institute Research Challenge 2023/2024 in Switzerland in Zurich. Congratulations for their great achievement!

CFA Society Switzerland press release MScF Finanz und Wirtschaft

Source photo: Carole Fleischmann

3 May 2023

Global Final

We are very proud of our team from the University of Neuchâtel which participated in the Global Final in Washington! They did a terrific job! Only 6 teams participated in the final (among more than 1100+ universities that participated this year). Participating was already an incredible achievement.

CFA Society Switzerland MScF Finanz und Wirtschaft

Source photo: CFA Institute

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