IFMR Business School, Chennai, has emerged as the winner of the CFA Global Investment Research Challenge India South Zonal Final, after battling against six teams from leading business schools of the South Zone .IFMR Business School’s team comprising of Mr Abhishek Jain , Mr Abhishak Bohara and Mr Suvra Shankha Dutta emerged winners after competing against Indian Institute of Management (Bangalore), Indian Institute of Management (Kozhikode), Indian School of Business (Hyderabad), Indian Institute of Technology (Chennai), T.A.Pai Management Institute (Manipal), and Great Lakes Institute of Management (Chennai).
The CFA Institute Research Challenge is a global competition which tests the analytic, valuation, report writing, and presentation skills of university students. Students have the unique opportunity to develop and present an equity research report and be mentored and judged by leading industry experts. Local CFA Institute member societies host and launch local competitions involving teams of three to five business and finance students from participating universities who work directly with a local company in researching and preparing a company analysis. The local winning teams will advance to the respective regional finals held in Asia Pacific; Europe, Middle East & Africa; Americas; and New York regions. The regional winners will then advance to the global final in the hope of being crowned as the global champion.
This completes the round of four zonal finals and now IFMR Business School will compete with other Zonal winners i.e. IIT Mumbai (West Zone), IIFT Delhi (North Zone) and IIM Shillong (East Zone) in the India National Final on December 13th to select two teams to represent India in the Asia Pacific Regional Final in Hong Kong on March 2nd, 2012.
