Pukyong National University Wins Korea Championship of Investment Analysis Olympics 'CFA Institute Research Challenge'

Seong Chang-wook, Kim Hee-young, Jeong Woo-jin, Kim Se-ung, Han Seo-jun

Qualified for March Asia-Pacific Championship Participation

Students of Pukyong National University (President Jang Young-su) won the final round of the ‘2023/24 CFA Institute Research Challenge’ Korea competition, known as the Investment Analysis Olympics.

The university’s Challiance team consists of students Seong Chang-wook (Public Talent·Finance Cooperative Program, Master’s Year 1), Kim Hee-young (Public Talent·Finance Cooperative Program, Master’s Year 1), Jeong Woo-jin (School of Business Administration, Year 3), Kim Se-ung (Department of Economics, Year 3), and Han Seo-jun (School of Business Administration, Year 1) (Advising Professor: Lee Yoo-kyung, School of Business Administration; Mentor: Kim Yeon-guk, CFA).

They won the championship at the competition held on the 27th of last month at the SKY31 Convention in Lotte World Tower, Seoul, hosted by the CFA Korea Association and sponsored by the DB Kim Joon-ki Cultural Foundation, receiving the championship trophy and CFA program scholarships.

Students from National Pukyong University who won the CFA Institute Research Challenge. (From right: Seong Chang-wook, Han Seo-jun, Kim Se-ung, Jeong Woo-jin, Kim Hee-young)

The ‘CFA Institute Research Challenge’ is a global investment analysis presentation competition held for university (graduate) students worldwide. Winners are determined by combining scores from report evaluations on the analyzed stocks and presentation evaluations, and the entire process is conducted in English.

The Korea competition, which started last August and lasted six months, saw participation from about 100 university (graduate) students forming 23 teams from 17 universities. Six teams, including Pukyong National University, Kyung Hee University, Dankook University, Seoul National University, Hanyang University, and Hongik University, advanced to the final round to compete for the championship.

The Pukyong National University student team was recognized for their outstanding expertise and excellent English presentation skills, including in-depth research, modeling, and corporate analysis, as well as stock analysis, providing buy or sell recommendations to investors for the assigned industry and companies in this competition.

The Pukyong National University student team, which won the Korea competition, will represent Korea at the Asia-Pacific (APAC) regional competition in March, competing against 26 teams. The top two teams from this competition will face the top two teams from the Americas (AMERICAS) region and the Europe/Middle East/Africa (EMEA) region to determine the final champion. This year’s global final competition is scheduled to be held in Warsaw, Poland, in May.

The CFA Korea Association has been hosting this competition annually since 2012, and the past winning universities in chronological order are Handong University, Sogang University (twice), Korea University (twice), Sungkyunkwan University (twice), Seoul National University, Hongik University (twice), and Dankook University.

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