Carnegie Mellon team wins Qatar Stock Exchange competition

The winners; QSE Financial Education Competition awards.

A team of students from Carnegie Mellon University in Qatar (CMU-Q), a Qatar Foundation partner university, took the top spot at the second Qatar Stock Exchange (QSE) Financial Education Competition. Eight universities took part, with CMU-Q edging out teams from Qatar University and Hamad Bin Khalifa University, according to a press statement. The first QSE Financial Education Competition took place in 2019, with a CMU-Q team also taking first place. The competition kicked off before the pandemic, in early 2020. Teams were given the task to value Aamal Holdings, a diversified business with holdings in four different sectors.