It was a great honor for Royal Group Phnom Penh SEZ Plc. (PPSP) to be selected as the fifth company for CFA Institute Research Challenge. The Kick-off meeting started on 12 October 2022 and the final Prize Ceremony was on 15 February 2023. The CFA Institute Research Challenge is a global competition that tests the equity research and valuation, investment report writings, and presentation skills of university students.

For this fifth season 2022-2023 of CFA, there were four universities taking part and they competed with each other namely American University of Phnom Penh (AUPP), CamEd Business School, Num International College, and Paragon International University, and they were supported by supervisors, mentors, graders, volunteer teams, judges and the Cambodia Community of Investment Professionals. 

The final day of the prize giving ceremony was presided over by H.E Sou Socheat, Director General of Securities and Exchange Regulator of Cambodia (SERC), H.E Hong Sokhour, CEO of Cambodia Securities Exchange (CSX), Mr. UEMATSU Hiroshi, CEO, and Mr. Fong Nee Wai, CFO of PPSP, Ms. Ratana Phurik Allebaut, CFA Chairperson, Mr. Alex Tee, CFA Organization Committee, and the other partners. After their hard work for the past five months, CamEd Business School was chosen as the champion for a second consecutive year, while the runner up was American University of Phnom Penh. Num International College, and Paragon International University were the consolation winners.

The Worldwide intercollegiate competition between teams of students, the winners from the local competitions advance to sub-regional competition, and then to one of the three regional competitions, culminating in a global final. We hope that CamEd will still do their best to congratulate for being a winner of the next competition with the other regions.