Research Challenge

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CFA Institute Research Challenge

The CFA Institute Research Challenge is an annual global competition that connects university students with investment professionals from within the CFA Society® network. The competition provides students with hands-on mentoring and intensive training in financial analysis and ethics and tests participants' analytical, valuation, reporting writing, and presentation skills.

Members of our society, along with a faculty advisor and an industry mentor, work with teams of students to value a stock, write a research report, and present their recommendations. Teams then compete with peers from other schools at local-level competitions organized and judged by CFA Society members and volunteers. The winning university team(s) from each local competition then advances to see who will become the sub-regional, regional, and global champions. 

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North and South Texas Research Challenge

Overview

We just completed the Texas Research Challenge for 2025 and on the CFA Societies Texas website under the Research Challenge tab there is a full description of the Challenge including how it originated, the Timeline, the Official Rules and the Results over the years along with a picture of the winning teams for this year's 2025 North Texas Challenge (Texas Tech) and South Texas Challenge (UTSA).

Results

Click here for a FULL DESCRIPTION AND RESULTS FOR THE TEXAS RESEARCH CHALLENGES.

2025 Winners

Texas Tech University

Texas Tech University

University of Texas San Antonio

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