CFA Society Czech Republic

A Member of the CFA Institute Global Network of Societies

CFA Institute Research Challenge hosted by CFA Society Czech Republic

Congratulations to the winning team from Masaryk University!

Photo of the winning team: Matej Zabadal, Tatiana Kološtová, Michal Šperka, Markéta Smolková a Samuel Zima

The CFA Institute Research Challenge is an annual global competition that provides university students with hands-on mentoring and intensive training in financial analysis. Students work in teams to research and analyze a publicly traded company — sometimes even meeting face-to-face with company management. Each team writes a research report on their assigned company with a buy, sell, or hold recommendation and may be asked to present and defend their analysis to a panel of industry professionals.

The CFA Institute Research Challenge offers students the unique opportunity to learn from leading industry experts and compete with peers from the world’s top finance programs. This annual educational initiative promotes best practices in equity research among the next generation of analysts through hands-on mentoring and intensive training in company analysis and presentation skills.

The Challenge gathers students, investment industry professionals, publicly traded companies, and corporate sponsors together locally, regionally, and globally for a real world competition. Additionally, all participants are introduced to and held to the standard of the CFA Institute Code of Ethics and Standards of Professional Conduct.

Last year, the competition featured more than 4,250 students from over 925 universities worldwide.

Research Challenge 2017 Schedule

Participating Universities

Anglo-American University

VŠB - Technical University of Ostrava

Charles University

University of Economics, Prague

Masaryk University

University of Tomas Bata

CERGE-EI

Mendel University Brno

Comenius University in Bratislava

School of Management/City University of Seattle

Univerzita Mateja Bela v Banskej Bystrici

University of New York in Prague

Ekonomická univerzita v Bratislavě

Thank you to our Local Level Sponsor and Partner Companies

RC Local Sponsor

RC Partners

Research Challenge Local Media Partners

RC Global Platinum Sponsor

Schedule of Events

10 Oct 2016	Kick off presentation for students (VSE) Today´s online streaming of Kick-off presentation All news will be provided via Facebook event page
24 Oct 2016	Teams selected by the participating institutions & student registration
25 Oct 2016	Teams orientation
26 Oct 2016	Subject Company Presentation 12:30, in EY, Na Florenci 2116/15, Praha, (Florentinum)
24 Nov 2016	Q&A Session/Analyst call (13:00-16:00, dial-in TBD)
6 Dec 2016	Final Drafts of Written Reports submitted to Industry Mentors
21 Dec 2016	23:59 Written Reports Due
6 Jan 2017	Announcement of the Teams (12) advancing for a final presentation
6 Feb 2017 26 - 28 Apr 2017	RC Local Final, VŠE, W. Churchilla 4, Prague 3 RC EMEA & Global Final in Prague