The SSE Riga Finance Challenge is a brand new competition for high-school and university students from all over the world, which has no analogs in the Baltics.
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.
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.
WORTH
- The SSE Riga Finance Challenge provides an opportunity to win valuable prizes amounting to EUR 1700 and adds a notable entry in your CV for a fast-track career in finance.
- The Grand Final takes place at the Stockholm School of Economics in Riga (Latvia) on May 19 and 20, 2018. 15 best-performing teams from the Preliminary Rounds are invited to the Grand Final to compete for the prize pool of EUR 1700. The finalists have a unique chance to meet like-minded students and enjoy workshops and lectures by professionals from the finance industry.
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.
- By applying for the SSE Riga Finance Challenge the participant automatically agrees to receive newsletters from the organization and its supporters to the e-mail indicated during the registration.
- Participation in the Competition is free of charge; however, the participants should be aware that additional costs might incure in case of reaching the Final event, including accommodation fee and travel expenses.
- The official language of the competition is English. No other languages should be used in the tasks and communication
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