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IIFT wins CFA Global Investment Research Challenge-India FINALS

Wednesday, December 14, 2011 Posted by Bibaswan Banerjee

Five students of MBA-IB, second year ( Navin Babu, Thangaraj Venkatachalam, Maharajan Nallasivan, Pranav Bajoria and Arul Vel Arasan) made IIFT proud yesterday by emerging winners in the National Finals of the CFA Global Investment Research Challenge held in the Bloomberg Office in Mumbai.

The competition is supported by three premier organizations including NSE (National Stock Exchange), Bloomberg and Bloomberg UTV as sponsors and long term corporate partners.
CFA Institute, the global association of investment professionals worldwide, promoting the best practices in equity research among the next generation of analysts in association with the Indian Association of Investment Professionals (IAIP), launched the “CFA Institute Research Challenge”. This is an annual, global educational initiative launched by the CFA Institute.

The panel of judges for the event included:
  • Sunil Singhania, CFA, Head - Equity Investments, Reliance Capital Asset Management Ltd; and President of IAIP
  • Ratnesh Kumar, Managing Director and Head, Standard Chartered Securities India
  • Alan Meder CFA, SVP and Chief Risk Officer, Duff & Phelps Investment Management Co.; and Vice Chair, CFA Institute Board of Governors
  • Ramesh Damani, seasoned investor with over two decades of experience
The team now moves on to compete in the Asia Pacific Final that will be held in Hong Kong in March 2012 and which will feature the best B-schools from Asia. 

IIFT has yet again proved its mettle edging out several of the top b-schools in this country like the IIM's to win this honour.

All the best guys for the Asia Pacific Round! GO IIFT GO!!

1 comments:

  1. Harshit said...
    December 14, 2011 at 7:10 PM

    Brilliant work guys. Congratulations !!

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