A team of Griffith Business School finance students managed a distinguished top three finishin the Asia-Pacific regional round of the Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) Research Challengein Bangkok.
The five member team — Elias Greil, Rhyan Nash, Lisa Rawlings, Ruby Sethi and Riven Zhang – presented a strong case to the judges who marked them highly as they argued their business case on a sell recommendationfor their chosen ASX-listed company.
Best of the Aussie teams
Griffith finished the highestof the three Australian universities, Monash and Curtin, which competed at the Asia-Pacific Round Challenge.
Dr John Fan, a lecturer at the Department of Accounting, Finance and Economicsisthe faculty adviser and was extremely proud of the team’s achievement.
“There were 25 or so teams involved from around the region and to finish as high as we did was pretty exciting.
“We argued our case methodically and expertly and I know the judges, who are all leading asset fund managers, were very impressed but it was exceedingly strong competition.”
The Griffith Team (l-R Ruby Sethi, Lisa Rawlings, Rhyan Nash, Elias Greil, Riven Zhang) finished third in the Asia-Pacific Challenge.
The Asia Pacific round was taken out by Singapore Management University who now challenge for the major prize in the global finalin late April
Mr Ken Howard, a senior private wealth adviser from Morgans Financialwas the industry adviser for the Griffith team.
To view Griffith’s presentation in Bangkok, click herewith the team’s presentation startingat 1:02:18
