{"id":198049,"date":"2023-10-03T16:30:57","date_gmt":"2023-10-03T08:30:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hkubs.hku.hk\/media\/hku-team-placed-the-first-runners-up-polymer-intervarsity-esg-case-challenge-2023\/"},"modified":"2023-10-11T17:48:36","modified_gmt":"2023-10-11T09:48:36","slug":"hku-team-placed-the-first-runners-up-polymer-intervarsity-esg-case-challenge-2023","status":"publish","type":"hkubs-media","link":"https:\/\/www.hkubs.hku.hk\/sc\/media\/school-news\/hku-team-placed-the-first-runners-up-polymer-intervarsity-esg-case-challenge-2023\/","title":{"rendered":"HKU Team placed the First Runner-up in Polymer Intervarsity ESG Case Challenge 2023"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The HKU team \u201cLighthouse Capital\u201d won first runner-up in the Polymer Capital Management Intervarsity ESG Case Challenge 2023. Team members are Adrian Chung (BSc(QFin) \u2013 Year 3), Huey Lee (BBA(IBGM) \u2013 Year 3) and Kelvin Cheung (BEcon&amp;Fin \u2013 Year 3).<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Case Challenge attracted over 80 team applications from universities in Hong Kong and Singapore.\u00a0Over 20 HKU teams registered and 6 of which were shortlisted for the HKU Round 1 competition which was held in August.\u00a0Each team was assigned an industry mentor to provide guidance to the team to navigate the process.\u00a0\u201cLighthouse Capital\u201d was the Champion Team and represented HKU in the Final Round of the Case Challenge.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_198033\" style=\"width: 837px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-198033\" class=\"wp-image-198034 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hkubs.hku.hk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Polymer-ed.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"827\" height=\"420\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hkubs.hku.hk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Polymer-ed.png 827w, https:\/\/www.hkubs.hku.hk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Polymer-ed-300x152.png 300w, https:\/\/www.hkubs.hku.hk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Polymer-ed-768x390.png 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 827px) 100vw, 827px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-198033\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Participants \u2013 Adrian, Huey and Kelvin (third, fourth and fifth from left), together with Professor Anna Wong (second from right), Programme Director of Bachelor of Finance in Asset Management and Private Banking, Mr Anthony Cheung (first from right) from Polymer and the panel judges<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Final Round of the Polymer Intervarsity ESG Case Challenge was held online on 22<sup>nd<\/sup>\u00a0September with five teams, each representing Nanyang Technological University Singapore, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, National University of Singapore, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology and The University of Hong Kong.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The HKU Team \u201cLighthouse Capital\u201d presented a long\/short fund that focuses on the energy and healthcare sectors in the Asia Pacific Region. The team came second to the National University of Singapore.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-198065 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hkubs.hku.hk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Poster.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"834\" height=\"590\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hkubs.hku.hk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Poster.jpg 1082w, https:\/\/www.hkubs.hku.hk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Poster-300x212.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.hkubs.hku.hk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Poster-1024x725.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.hkubs.hku.hk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Poster-768x544.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 834px) 100vw, 834px\" \/><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_198036\" style=\"width: 841px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-198036\" class=\" wp-image-198037\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hkubs.hku.hk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/comp-image.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"831\" height=\"474\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hkubs.hku.hk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/comp-image.jpg 698w, https:\/\/www.hkubs.hku.hk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/comp-image-300x171.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 831px) 100vw, 831px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-198036\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Adrian, Huey and Kelvin presenting the long\/short fund in final round<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A big Congrats to the HKU Team \u2013 Adrian, Huey and Kelvin.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">We would like to express our gratitude to Polymer for organizing the event and the judges who gave valuable feedback to the teams.\u00a0We would also like to give our vote of thanks to Professor Anna Wong and our mentors who have given tremendous support to the teams during the journey.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"template":"","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"no","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-198049","hkubs-media","type-hkubs-media","status-publish","hentry","media-categories-school-news-sc","media-topic-categories-achievement-sc"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hkubs.hku.hk\/sc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hkubs-media\/198049","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hkubs.hku.hk\/sc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hkubs-media"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hkubs.hku.hk\/sc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/hkubs-media"}],"version-history":[{"count":18,"href":"https:\/\/www.hkubs.hku.hk\/sc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hkubs-media\/198049\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":198875,"href":"https:\/\/www.hkubs.hku.hk\/sc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hkubs-media\/198049\/revisions\/198875"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hkubs.hku.hk\/sc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=198049"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}