CFA adventure comes to an end...

On the 15th of March our team consisting of Jakub Pivoluska, Tomas Hrbacek, David Hyza, Ondrej Klecka and myself, had its semi-final stage presentation of the EMEA CFA Institute Research Challenge finals. With great endeavor, competing against universities from Finland, Poland, Hungary and Dubai only very little was necessary to get to the finals. Yet it was not enough so we wished best luck the Polish team to represent the CEE region in the EMEA final round (but with Dubai not from the CEE region). In the overall final round Stockholm School of Economics was the best and will be representing Europe in New York finals in April.

Still in great mood we were in high spirit for the weekend with St. Patrick's day on Saturday. Exploring London with all its attractions, museums, visiting Canary Wharf and Greenwich we were so tired that the best about London was a good night sleep. We left London on Sunday, but we are sure that few of us will surely come back.

And here are the guys who made this all possible! :-)

Czech CFA Institute Research Challenge

On the 2nd of February our team won the Czech national round of Chartered Financial Analyst Institute Research Challenge. For almost 3 months we were conducting comprehensive strategy and financial analysis of  Telefonica Czech republic listed on Prague Stock Exchange.

After a long time of struggling with ourselves to keep on fighting we managed to beat the other universities teams and we scored the best results. With this we are up for the European finale in London during the 14th - 16th March. See you there!

Here a link to the press release report (only in Czech).

For people interested in Chinese Studies

Just recently I stumbled upon an interesting post on Chinese Debate blog directing towards online Harvard courses with the topic China: Traditions and Transformations. I'm sure someone might be interested in the modern history of the "buzz" country of the 21st century.