UCC students excel at Global Investment Research Challenge
14.02.2011
A UCC team from Accounting & Finance has won the Irish round of the CFA Institute’s Global Investment Research Challenge (GIRC) held at Davys Stockbrokers earlier this month. The team of final year students from the BSc Finance and BSc Accounting are: Dorota Donigiewicz; Don Duggan; Frank Kenny; Richard Murphy; Richard O'Donovan. The team’s professional mentor is Ken Power of Killeevan Investment Consultants and Dr Ray Donnelly is the academic mentor. The team’s financial analysis of Paddy Power plc enabled them defeat teams from NUI, Galway, Trinity College, UCD and DCU in the Irish final.

The Global Investment Research Challenge is a real world investment competition. About 2,500 students representing over 500 of the top university business and finance programs worldwide are participating in the GIRC. The universities assemble teams of three to five business and finance students who work directly with a company in researching and preparing a company analysis. The teams' final presentations are locally evaluated by high-profile panels of heads of research, portfolio managers, and chief investment officers from the world’s top firms. The local champions advance to regional competitions in the Americas, Asia, and Europe and then to the global finale.

This is the second time in the past three years that UCC has won the Irish leg of this competition. The team will now compete in the Europe, Middle East and Africa final in Madrid on March 3rd where they will be hoping to emulate the UCC team that was successful in the European leg of the competition in 2009.

Picture: Winning Team L-R: Don Duggan, Dorota Donigiewicz, Richard O'Donovan, Richard Murphy and Frank Kenny.

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