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University of Liechtenstein’s team impresses in equity analysis

Students from the Master's degree programme in Finance at the University of Liechtenstein were able to secure the second place in the Swiss final of the CFA Research Challenge.

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Master of Finance students at the University of Liechtenstein have come second at the 13th CFA Research Challenge, with ten groups in the running. This is the first time a university team from Liechtenstein has made it to the next round.

According to a press release, a group of four Master of Finance students from the University of Liechtenstein have been placed second in the 13th CFA Research Challenge. Competing against ten Swiss universities and universities of applied sciences, the next generation of analysts from Liechtenstein made it into the next round with their work researching and reporting on a publicly traded company.

For the 13th time, a high-profile panel of judges of financial experts assessed a presentation and research report on a predetermined publicly traded company delivered by each student team. The company analyzed this autumn semester was SIG Combibloc with headquarters in Neuhausen in the canton of Schaffhausen.

The budding financial experts from Liechtenstein pitted their analyses against competitors from the Universities of Basel, Fribourg, Geneva, Neuchâtel, Lausanne, St.Gallen, Zurich, the Università della Svizzera Italiana and the Zurich University of Applied Sciences (ZHAW). They will now join the number one team from the University of Lausanne and advance to the EMEA (Europe, Middle East and Africa) regional final in April and May 2022, which will take place virtually.

The equity research competition was launched in 2007 with the aim of giving students an insight into the work of financial analysts under the guidance of an internal faculty advisor and a mentor from the CFA Society Switzerland. The global CFA Institute Research Challenge had, in its last edition, 6,400 students from more than 1,100 universities in 90 countries worldwide. The record participation this year is a sign of “the huge interest among both students and universities”.

The Institute for Finance at the University of Liechtenstein currently comprises three Chairs, namely Banking, Finance and Tax.