UA Little Rock students take third in CFA Research Challenge

A team of students from the University of Arkansas at Little Rock College of Business have placed third in the Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) Research Challenge on Feb. 23 at Rhodes College in Memphis, Tennessee.

The students include Noah Asher, senior finance and economics major; Rita Chowdhury, Master of Business Administration student; and Alex Howell, senior finance major. Dr. Ashvin Vibhakar, Joe T. Ford Chair of Finance, served as the team's faculty advisor while Ben Bienvenu of Stephens, Inc. was their mentor.

"The competition is sponsored by the CFA Institute with the goal of teaching students the practical side of equity research as well as understanding ethical principles," Vibhakar said. "The students learn institutional equities research. In the challenge, the students do exactly what a research analyst at Stephens would do."