Dr. Tim Jares, Dean of 太阳城娱乐官网’s 商业与技术学院, understands the rigor associated with the 特许金融分析（CFA）协会研究挑战赛。 Jares earned a Chartered Financial Analyst designation from the CFA Institute and, at his prior school, took several groups of students to competition. He explains that the challenge, where students present to a group of CFA professionals, is “incredibly rigorous.” 对于他来说，CBT教授Nam Le博士和他的学生在首届CFA股票研究挑战赛中与其他学校的学生竞争并不奇怪。

As an assistant professor of finance, Dr. Le, who is also a Chartered Financial Analyst, is impressed by his team of five seniors who represented the University of Nebraska at Kearney at the school’s first-ever CFA Challenge. 他在课堂上帮助学生选择和管理投资，以获得他们在大学毕业并开始职业生涯时所需的实际投资经验。 

Ethan Knust, one of Dr. Le’s students who participated in the CFA Challenge, explains the significance of his education as he shares the “multiple instances” when has been given the opportunity in class to “evaluate a company on various metrics to analyze their performance and the trends (seen) over a period.” 克努斯特和他的同学们利用这种分析找到了他们自己的内在价格，并与当前市场进行了比较。 This type of real-world application to their lessons helped these students to perform well at the CFA Challenge where they needed to be able to “recommend a buy, sell, or hold position” for Union Pacific stock. 他喜欢有机会把他在课堂上学到的东西应用到现实世界中。

Knust is not the only one who appreciates the significance of 太阳城娱乐官网’s first-ever experience with the CFA Institute. Dr. Jares explains how “the experience is absolutely tremendous for these students.” He appreciates how they spent “countless hours to do the analysis” for which he is quick to point out they “do not get paid or earn a grade.” Like Dr. Le and his students, Dr. Jares knows the CFA Challenge allows students an opportunity where they will also get to “network with professionals and students from other campuses with similar passions and interests.”

虽然克努斯特习惯了在课堂上努力学习，但随着他和他的团队为比赛做准备，他的工作量增加了。 他们对联合太平洋公司进行了大量的研究，并撰写了一份详细的报告，详细展示了他们是如何得出公司价值的，然后就像Le博士解释的那样，他们前往奥马哈分享了一个10分钟的演讲，然后是10分钟的问答环节。 

Dr. Le shares how his team “received pretty positive feedback” and were commended on the obvious “tremendous time and effort” they put into this challenge. Considering the fact that the CFA Challenge is a global competition which occurs every year, Dr. Le’s students rose to the occasion and put on a strong performance with the talented competition between the schools in their region. 

太阳城娱乐官网’S 商业与技术学院 is determined to give every student the opportunity to succeed in their future careers. 带有彭博站的新金融实验室允许学生实时获取全球金融新闻。 对于学生来说，这是一项有价值的投资，随着他们在金融课程中体验到的体验式学习，他们正在为成功的职业未来做准备。 Both Dr. Jares and Dr. Le, who have received the CFA certification which they share is the“worldwide gold standard” in the investment industry, understand that CBT students need more than what they can learn from a textbook. In addition to the degree students will receive upon graduation, their participation in the CFA Challenge will, according to Dr. Le, let future employers “immediately know this student is serious about this career path.” He adds that students, such as Ethan Knust, are creating a resume which will help them be seen as a “full package” candidate.  

Knust appreciates how the path to his future career was aided by the “great feedback” he and his team received after their presentation. He hopes that his team has started “a tradition for 太阳城娱乐官网 to continue to participate” with this challenge. Considering the fact that there are more than 190,000 investment professionals involved with the CFA Institute, Dr. Le’s decision to take a team of students proved what 太阳城娱乐官网 has known all along. Professionals are made at 太阳城娱乐官网’s College of Business of Technology thanks to the authentic use of the Bloomberg stations in the finance labs and opportunities for students to take what is learned in the classroom out into the real world. 

For this team of students, it doesn’t get more real than competing with other students as they assume the role of research analysts at the CFA Challenge. Although this was their first time competing, it certainly won’t be their last. 这些学生，以及那些将追随他们脚步的人，已经接受了挑战，学习他们所能学习的一切，以便一次一项投资，对世界产生影响。