The Ben Graham Centre for Value Investing at the Ivey Business School is proud to announce the 2nd Annual MBA Stock Picking Competition made possible by our key sponsor Burgundy Asset Management, as well as Empire Life Investments.

The MBA Stock Picking Competition is global in nature and includes top MBA programs from Asia, Australia, Europe, North and South America. The competition focuses on the value investing approach to stock analysis and follows the principles of value investing as taught by Benjamin Graham.

Participants will be competing for $17,500 in cash prizes, as well as admission to the Ben Graham Centre’s 2015 Value Investing Conference, the Fairfax Financial Annual General Meeting and a meet and greet with Prem Watsa, CEO of Fairfax, and his team.

Competition Details

Participants: Thirty top global MBA programs. Three groups will be invited to present their final analysis to a panel of top global value investors in Toronto, Canada.

Stocks: A list of stocks will be provided to participating schools in the second week of January. Teams will prepare a maximum 10 page research report (plus necessary exhibits) for submission to the competition managers no later than the third week of January. The top three treams will be asked to prepare a second analysis to be presented in Toronto, Canada, on April 14th, 2015.

Entry Fee: $100 per team.

Please let us know if a team will be representing your school by December 11th, 2014.

If you have any questions, please feel free to contact us. For more information you can visit the Ben Graham Centre’s web site shiwn below. We look forward to hearing from you soon.

http://www.bengrahaminvesting.ca/Outreach/stock.htm

George Athanassakos
Professor of Finance
Ben Graham Chair in Value Investing & Director, Ben Graham Centre for Value Investing Richard Ivey School of Business The University of Western Ontario London, Ontario N6A 3K7
519-661-4096
Fax 519-661-3485
gathanassakos@ivey.uwo.ca
www.bengrahaminvesting.ca
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