On behalf of CFA Society North Carolina, we’d like to invite your school to find out about the CFA Institute Research Challenge. Like any great challenge, this annual initiative provides all participants-including students and volunteers with incredible opportunities. 

The Research Challenge gives students all around the world the chance to learn best practices in equity research through hands-on mentoring and intensive training in company analysis. Last year’s competition featured over 6,000 students from more than 1,000 universities worldwide. 

Open to both graduate and undergraduate students, as a participating university your team of three to five students will compete against other universities in the area and will have the chance to: ·   Analyze a public company·   Be mentored by investment management professionals·   Write an equity research report·   Present their research to a high-profile panel of experts·   Advance to Regional and Global levels of competition if they win the local challenge