Written by Apinut Assawakul, BBA#18

On 12 January 2013, from a long period of hard-working; we, as the representative of Thammasat University, won the CFA Research Challenge in Thailand for another year.

Before this year competition, Thammasat University has won 3 years in a row for National Champion, 2 years for Regional Champion and just last year for the Global Champion. CFA Research Challenge is the competition to promote the best practice in equity research through hands-on mentoring and intensive training in company analysis and presentation skills. (http://www.cfainstitute.org/partners/challenge/Pages/index.aspx)

For local round, the competition started on September 23, 2012 with a kick-off meeting. There were 6 teams from 6 universities to participate in this competition but only 4 teams could proceed to the final round. At the meeting, we were give IVL as a subject company to do the analysis.