Research Challenge

CFA Institute Research Challenge

The CFA Institute Research Challenge is an annual global competition that connects university students with investment professionals from within the CFA Society® network. The competition provides students with hands-on mentoring and intensive training in financial analysis and ethics and tests participants' analytical, valuation, reporting writing, and presentation skills.

Members of our society, along with a faculty advisor and an industry mentor, work with teams of students to value a stock, write a research report, and present their recommendations. Teams then compete with peers from other schools at local-level competitions organized and judged by CFA Society members and volunteers. The winning university team(s) from each local competition then advances to see who will become the sub-regional, regional, and global champions. 

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Southern Ohio Research Challenge

CFA Columbus is proud to be partnering with CFA Cincinnati and CFA Dayton for the 2025 Research Challenge.

Timeline:

Kick-off meeting to be held early October

Target company visit - late Octboer/early November (depending on company availability)

Draft report due mid-December

Final report due end of January

Local final presentation held end of February

2025 Research Challenge

Interested in being part of the 2025 Research Challenge? Click on the button below to e-mail the Research Challenge team.

Research Challenge Team