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students win regional finance competition Author: School of
Business Administration Posted: February 25, 2013
Congratulations to the Portland State University student team
who recently won the regional Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA)
Institute Research Challenge Competition! The team of Master of
Science in Financial Analysis (MSFA) and undergraduate finance
students included Preety Novlani, Emily Schrum, Shauna Thomas
and Sameer Allabadi, who competed against four other Oregon
schools. They will now move on to the national level in Toronto
where they will compete against winning teams from all over
North America.  The annual competition, hosted by the CFA
Society of Portland, involved conducting a valuation of Nike,
Inc. and recommending a “buy, sell or hold” position to
investors based on each team’s estimates about Nike’s growth and
potential. In this financial analysis, students learned that
Nike’s reputation as a large and stable company is not