Deadline: April 8, 2018 00:00 CEST
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Prizes: amounting to EUR 1700,-
Eligibility: All participants must be full-time undergraduate, master’s, PhD or high-school students. A participant can only apply as a part of a team of 3. Each team member should register separately under the same team name.
Location: Online; The final event takes place in Riga, Latvia
SSE Riga Finance Challenge 2018
The SSE Riga Finance Challenge is a brand new competition for high-school and university students from all over the world, which has no analogues in the Baltics.
Why attend?
Participants will get an opportunity to apply the knowledge in Economics and Finance in practice as well as to win valuable prizes amounting to EUR 1700!
The online preliminary rounds start on April 9, 2018 and last for 4 weeks, after which 15 best-performing teams are invited to the Grand Final to the Stockholm School of Economics in Riga.
How it works
Participants are required to form teams of 3 people and come up with a name of a team (consisting both of letters and numbers, and each team member must register; however, during the whole game there will be 1 account per team). If you do not have enough team members, you will be randomly assigned to other participants with the same condition.
The competition challenges contestants to complete tasks on Corporate Finance, Financial Reporting and Analysis, Valuation, Investment Banking, Portfolio Management and Macroeconomics.
- The preliminary round
The preliminary rounds include tasks on Corporate Finance, Investment Banking and Investment Solutions. The tasks will be sent out to participants via e-mail, as well as published on their profile on sserfc.com, and will have to be submitted via e-mail or the profile.
- The final event
The final event takes place in Riga, Latvia, on May 19-20, 2018. 15 best performing teams are invited to the final, where they will compete in solving cases on Finance which will be evaluated by professional judges from the industry.
The winning team gets a prize of EUR 1000, the second place gets EUR 500 and the third place gets EUR 200, as well as valuable prizes from our sponsors.
Interested in attending the SSE Riga Finance Challenge 2018? Register your participation by following the registration link and taking the suggested steps.
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