Saunders College of Business hosted a local-level competition of the 2026 CFA Institute Research Challenge, Saturday, February 7. The competition brought together ten teams from nine western New York universities: Canisius University, SUNY Geneseo, Rochester Institute of Technology, University at Buffalo, University of Rochester, Cornell University, SUNY Oswego, Ithaca College, and St. John Fisher University.
“This annual global equity research competition provides university students with hands-on mentoring and intensive training in financial analysis.”
Hao Zhang, professor in the department of finance and accounting, secured Saunders’ opportunity to host the competition. Notably, this was the first time RIT has hosted the event, which offered Saunders the opportunity to show off its new facilities, including the Susan R. Holliday Center, a premier, multi-functional event venue …
… the state-of-the-art Gueldenpfennig Auditorium
… and the Skalrsky Center for Business Analytics.
