The CFA IRC is an international contest for students from around the world and Russian students will be participating in this global event for the 4th time this year. Over 3000 students will be representing new generation of financial and investment specialist from some of the most prominent economics universities and business schools. Up to this date Russian teams made a short, but very impressive history of participation in this principal event for finance and economics students. The winner of the local leg of competition last year was the team of Moscow State University (MGU). This year’s winning team will proceed to the Regional stage of competition that will take place in Italy in April 2014.

On November, 13th CFA Institute and CFA Association (Russia) will be officially launching the local stage of CFA Institute Research Challenge 2013-2014. The Kick-Off event will be organised with support of RUSNANO company and will be hosted at their main office (prospect 60-letya Oktyabrya, 10a). The representatives of CFA community, RUSNANO company, the IRC Subject company (QIWI) and the heroes of the day - students themselves, will be attending this event.

In order to participate in this Kick-Off Event everyone (including student team members and guests) need to register their participation on the following web page. Please note that all guests are requested to have their ID (passport) on them on the day of event in order to gain entry to the venue.

KICK-OFF MEETING

13 November, 2013                                                                                            

RUSNANO office, address: prospect 60-letya Oktyabrya, 10a (level 3)

Event schedule

19:00 – 19:30              Registration and coffee break

19:30 – 19:45          Speech by Vladimir Tutkevich, Director of CFA Association (Russia) , Denis Sitnikov, CFA, member of CFA Association (Russia).

19:45 – 20:15              Presentation by the Subject Company QIWI

20:15 – 20:30             Q&A Session with QIWI

20:30 – 21:45              Presentation of the Teams

20:45 – 21:30              Evening coffee break.