Albers Team Wins Local Finals of CFA Institute Research Challenge

Albers Team Wins Local Finals of CFA Institute Research Challenge

Victory marks SU's ninth in 12 years of competing in annual event

Seattle University's Albers School of Business and Economics bested seven other teams to win the local finals of the CFA Institute Research Challenge organized by CFA Society Seattle.

The Challenge is an annual competition for university students, testing their skills as future financial analysts. 'Students work in teams to research and analyze a publicly traded company and then write a research report on their assigned company with a buy, sell, or hold recommendation,' says the CFA Institute's website.

Members of the Albers team that represented Seattle University were:

• Online MBA student Brooks Hopp
• Masters in Finance student Sneha Pendaya
• Undergraduate Finance major Nancy Vuong
• Undergraduate Finance and International Business student Shelby Ward
• Masters in Finance student Yichen Zhou

This year's competing teams were fielded by the University of Washington Bothell, the University of Washington Seattle, the University of Puget Sound, Central Washington University, Western Washington University, and the University of Oregon. The last fielded two teams.

The Albers group will be advancing to the Americas sub-regional finals this month. 

The CFA Institute Research Challenge win is the latest feather in the cap for the Finance department of Albers. In December 2020, the value of its student-run Redhawk Fund . The Masters in Finance program is also celebrating its 30th year.