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.
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 2000! The online preliminary rounds start on May 1, 2019, and last for 2 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.
Location:
Online, LatviaBenefits
- The SSE Riga Finance Challenge provides an opportunity to win valuable prizes amounting to EUR 2000 and adds a notable entry in your CV for a fast-track career in finance.
- The final event takes place in Riga, Latvia, on May 25-26, 2019. 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 1200, the second place gets EUR 500 and the third place gets EUR 300, as well as valuable prizes from our sponsors.
Eligibilities
- 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 incur 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
Application Process
- The competition includes two Preliminary Rounds and the Grand Final:
- Round 1 lasts from May 1 to May 8
- Round 2 lasts from May 9 to May 16
- The tasks for preliminary rounds will be available in the participant’s profile on our website www.sserfc.com, where one can also find useful preparation materials and the results section.
- Registration for the SSE Riga Finance Challenge is available at www.sserfc.com and is open until May 8, 2019.
Application Deadline: May 8, 2019
Application ClosedOfficial link
