2025 CFAOC Investment Research Challenge Winners
CSULB COB Big Team Win BIGGER!
For the first time, the BIG students came in first place in both the CFAOC RFP competition AND, now, today, the CFAOC Investment Research Challenge! So, way to go to the five participating students for this competition, and thanks especially to Bridgett England for her extensive mentorship of the students, which played a key role in enabling them to be competitive in both of these competitions!

CFA Institute Research Challenge
The CFA Institute Research Challenge is an annual global competition that connects university students with investment professionals from within the CFA Society® network. The competition provides students with hands-on mentoring and intensive training in financial analysis and ethics and tests participants' analytical, valuation, reporting writing, and presentation skills.
The CFA Institute Research Challenge is an annual global competition that provides university students with hands-on mentoring and intensive training in financial analysis and professional ethics. Each student will be tested on their analytic, valuation, report writing, and presentation skills. They gain real-world experience as they assume the role of a research analys
Local level competitions are organized and judged by CFA Institute Society members and volunteers who function as local hosts.
The winning university team from each local competition advances to one of the three regional competitions.