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CQA Challenge

CQA Challenge History

Top 3 Finishes:

Vanderbilt  - 2013 (Winner), 2014, 2018 

IIT  - 2015 (Winner), 2016 (Winner)

University of Arizona - 2014, 2017 (Winner)

University of Southern California - 2014 (Winner), 2016

University of Colorado 2018 (Winner)

Notre Dame 2018. 2019

Marquette 2017

Washington University 2017, 2020

RPI 2016

Rice 2015

University of Washington 2015

Williams 2013

Chinese University of Hong Kong 2013, 2021

University of New Brunswick 2021 (Winner)

Temple University 2021

UCSD 2020

Union College 2020


2022 Results

First Place - Rice University

Arun Kaipuzha
Alice Rothschild
Beau Domingue
Jon Clark
Tyler Freed

 

2nd Place - Santa Clara Universtity

Davis Williams
Yash Doshi
Hayden Carey
Justin Jones


3rd Place - University of Texas at Dallas

Kyle Funk
Nishesh Koirala 



2121 Results

First Place - University of New Brunswick

Molly Pittman
Michael McSorley
Dhruv Aggarwal
Shashank Goli
Davidoff Sun
Second Place - Temple University
Kshitij Pandey
Mark Shust
Nicholas Irrer
Nitu Roy
Third Place - Chinese University of Hong Kong
Mark Hui
Sharie Kong
Kevin Yau
Tommy Lau
Castle Cheung


2020 Results

First ever CQA Challenge with a "tie" in 2nd Place:

First Place - UCSD

Team Captain - Aparimit Phophalia
Hongao Qiu
Shan Zhang
Chengxi Song
Yuchen Chen

Second Place - Washington University in St. Louis

Team Captain - Yiton Cai
Jingqiu Zhao
Weihao Zhou
Aurora Liu
Miao He
Jie Cheng
Yiming Huang
Xinyuan Hu

Second Place - Union College

Team Captain - Jarrod Trief
Henry Scott
Rob Harrington
Ross Kesselman
Seif Refat
Patrick Aung

Third Place - USCD (Team 2)

Team Captain - Yu Jiang
Yuanyuan Yang
Yue Wang
Steve Ting
Anxum Wei
 


2019 TOP 3  

First Place - University of Colorado

Mentor- Trent Ambler

Sponsor- Roberto Caccia

Students- Harrison Pearl, William Sun, John Palmer

 

Runner Up - Vanderbilt (Team 1)

Mentor- Bola Olusanya

Sponsor- Robert Whaley

Students- Nicholas Egli, Carson Riley, Bridgett Ledak, Brian Reed, Lee Smith, Trevor Brown

 

2nd Runner Up - Notre Dame (Gold)

Mentor- Eric Fritz

Sponsor- Kevin Burke

Students- Sarah Graney, Lan Zhou, Arianna Deshpande, Ben Shepard, Noel Vincent


2018 Top Rankings

1           Colorado Alpha Squad

2           Vanderbilt 1

3           University of Notre Dame Gold

4           Rensselaer 2

5           Colorado

6           University of Notre Dame-Blue

7           Hawks IIT Team A

8           Duke

9           UIC Dragon

10         Michigan

11         Temple

12         UIC

13         Purdue #2

14         Stevens Institute of Technology

15         Marquette

16         University of Pittsburgh

17         Wilkes

18         Georgia Tech

19         Rensselaer 1

20         Arizona

21         Syracuse 1

22         Sapienza University of Rome 3

23         Carnegie Mellon MBA Team

24         CalTech

25         UW-Milwaukee

26         Saint Joseph's University

27         India School of Business Hyderabad Campus

28         India School of Business, #2 Mohali Campus

29         Vanderbilt 2

30         Rice

31         Syracuse 2

32         USC

33         Wesleyan

34         Villanova

35         IE Business School

36         Purdue #1

37         IIT #2

38         UW-Milwaukee 2

39         Chinese University

40         Sapienza University of Rome 1

41         Metropolitan College of NY

42         Cal Poly

43         Rutgers

44         Union College

45         York

46         Santa Clara

47         Sapienza University of Rome 2

2017 Results

First Place - University of Arizona 
Mentor- Chris Campisano
Sponsor- Scott Cederburg
Students- Spencer Bateman, Hilla Hascalovici, Charles Recchion, Edward Recchion, Kham To

Runner Up - Marquette University Team 2:
Mentor- Tom Anichini
Sponsor- Bill Walker
Students- William Reckamp, James Hannack, Jordan Luczaj, Jack Gorski, Connor Konicke

2nd Runner Up - Washington University Green Team
Mentor- Kirk McDonald
Sponsor- Rich Ryffel
Students- Sahil Ghurye, Chongyu Li, Siyong Chen, Yuanfang Liu, Yuming Lou, Yingan Yi

2017 Final Team Rankings: 

1             University of Arizona

2             Marquette (2)

3             Wash U STL (Green)

4             Notre Dame (Blue)

5             mcny2016fall

6             Wash U STL (Orange)

7             Purdue (2)

8             Rensselaer (2)

9             IIT Stuart (1)

10           GeorgiaTech (1)

10           Cornell

12           Cal Poly San Luis

13           Schulich Investments

14           Columbia

15           CU Boulder (2)

16           trade4profit

17           IIT Wyatt's Torch

18           Sapienza University

19           Duke Team Fuqua

20           Walkaloosa

21           Rice

22           USC Trojan Capital Alpha

23           Caltech

24           Union College

25           Marquette (1)

26           U of Michigan Ross

27           UConn

28           Black& Gold Standard

28           cuhkbba

30           Rensselaer (1)

31           Purdue 2017

32           UWM-IMCP

33           CMU Tepper

34           Wash UST (LBlue)

35           Notre Dame Gold

36           mattisonasher

37           ISB India (1)

38           CU (3)

39           ACUityFund

40           Vanderbilt (1)

41           Temple University

42           U of Delaware

43           IE Green Partners

44           Columbia FE

45           Texas A&M

46           Vanderbilt  (2)

47           ISB India (2)

48           UIC

49           UW  CFRM


2016 Results:

First Place - Illinois Institute of Technology

Ileana Cavazos, Armin Niorumand, Jielin Chen, Mauro Hamz, Anton Vlaykov

Runner Up - University of Southern California

Brian Wang, Andrew Billings, Stanley Su, Salmaan Javed, Ryan McCarthy

2nd Runner Up - RPI
Yongqian Lu, Gowtham Kumar, Reddy Manda, Haochen Lui, Patrick Haughey, Jyothsna Harithsa    

2016 Final Team Rankings: 
IIT (A)
USC
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Washington University
Cal Tech
University of Arizona
IIT (B)
Denver Unversity
CMU
Webster University (2)
IE Business School
Wesleyan
CMU Undergrad
Temple University
University of Michgan
Vanderbilt University
UIC
Univeristy of Washington
UCLA
Cornell University
Webster University (1)
Syracuse University
Univeristy of Wisconsin Milwaukee
Metropolitan College New York
Chinese University Hong Kong
Marquette University
Union University
Rice University
Purdue University
Colorado University
Duke University

The following results are for the 2015 CQA Investment Challenge

First Place - Illinois Institute of Technology

Lisa Lee, Bingqing He Changjiang Bi, Hang Gong, Lin Zeng, Shailesh Kakkar

Runner Up - Rice University


2nd Runner Up - University of Washington

2015 Final Team Rankings: 

1              Illinois Institute of Technology
2              Rice University
3              University of Washington
4              Duke University
5              York
6              University of Chicago
7              Temple University
8              Cal Tech
9              Cornell
10           Colorado
11           The Chinese University of Hong Kong
12           Purdue University
13           U of Wisc Mil
14           Vanderbilt University
15           UCLA - Anderson School
16           Carnegie Mellon
17           Syracuse
18           University of Denver
19           Metropolitan College of NY
20           Union
21           University of Michigan
22           University of Illinois - Chicago
23           USC
24           Dartmouth College
25           Santa Clara
26           Weslyan
27           Webster
28           University of Arizona


The following results are for the 2014 CQA Investment Challenge. Congratulations to the following schools:

First Place - University of Southern California
Simeon Lee, Joe Bailey, Dikshant Tahilramani, Daxiang Tian

Runner Up - Vanderbilt University
Michael Boone, Brennan Brown, Paul Gerwe, Christine Foster, Joshua Simmons

2nd Runner Up - University of Arizona
Laura Hobbs, Karmi Gutman, Joshua DiBiasi, Alexander Cohen, Juan Peraza


2014 Final Team Rankings:

  1. University of Southern California
  2. Vanderbilt University
  3. University of Arizona
  4. University of Washington
  5. Dartmouth College
  6. University of Chicago
  7. Union College
  8. Duke University
  9. University of Denver
10. Whitman - Syracuse
11. Anderson School - UCLA
12. Williams College
13. Rice University
14. Purdue University
15. University of Illinois - Chicago
16. Illinois Institute of Technology
17. University of Delaware
18. Texas A&M University
19. Wesleyan
20. Ross School - University of Michigan
21. Carnegie Mellon
22. The Chinese University of Hong Kong
23. Temple University
24. Macalester College



The following results are for the inaugural 2013 CQA Investment Challenge.
Congratulations to the following schools:


First Place - Vanderbilt University
Kelly Smith, Chad Hooker, Zachary Kennedy, Asia Brumwell

Runner Up - Williams College
Yang Lu, Vu Le, Michael Flynn, Shiwen Chen

2nd Runner Up - Chinese University of Hong Kong
Members: Chan Ka Hoo, Yung Yi Tak, Chen Jiaqi, Leung Cheuk Wai

Youtube Video from CUHK describing their CQA Challenge experience


2013 Final Team Rankings:

  1. Vanderbilt University
  2. Williams College
  3. The Chinese University of Hong Kong
  4. Notre Dame
  5. University of Chicago
  6. Cornell
  7. University of Denver
  8. Bucknell
  9. University of Delaware
10. Ross School - University of Michigan
11. Carnegie Mellon
12. Anderson School - UCLA
13. University of Washington
14. University of Illinois - Chicago
15. Wesleyan