HEC Montréal Wins the 2018 Financial Open

February 8, 2018

The HEC Montréal delegation took first place in the Overall Ranking category of the 2018 Financial Open. This 12^th edition of the Open took place from February 2 to 4 at the Université du Québec à Chicoutimi. The Financial Open is an interuniversity finance and accounting competition. This year, more than 300 students from 9 Quebec universities participated.

Here are the HEC Montréal delegation’s results by discipline:

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The delegation was composed of 34 students:

Management Accounting: Étienne Fournier, Chanelle Soucy and Camille Lavictoire-Boulianne
Financial Accounting: Sébastien Chung, François D’Anjou and Sonia Molleyres
CFA Ethics Challenge: Patrick Cimon, Kaileigh Hamilton-Browne and Bruno Letarte
Corporate Finance: Aurélie Desjardins-Michaud, Jordan Di Corpo and Mathieu Cloutier
Market Finance: Alexandre Minville, Jean-Sébastien Gagnier and Pierre-Hugues Forest-Le Sieur
Personal Financial Planning: Mabéty Conté-Desjardins, Stéphanie Rondeau and Thomas Lachance
Taxation: Marika Dupont, Alexia Audet and Tinhinane Ferrat
Stock Exchange Simulation: William Beaudry, Julien Desgagne, Adam El Ghazali and Philippe Vézina-Tardif
Financial News Quiz: Gabriel Arvisais, Marianne Gélinas and Norman Bloch
Delegation Volunteers: Camille Balducchi, Léah Sfez, Brigitte Parent and Samuel Ferreira-Silva
Delegation Coordinator: Cassandra Fikler
Ambassador (delegation sponsor): Philippe Bérubé

Their trainers were:

• Jean-Éric Laniel and Sammie Dubeau (Management Accounting)
• Jacques Lemay (Personal Financial Planning, Market Finance, Corporate Finance and the CFA Ethics Challenge)
• Alex Berthiaume and Mathieu Joubert (Taxation)
• Vanessa Tremblay, Maxime Laliberté and Laurianne Leduc (Financial Accounting)
• Antoine Gélinas (Financial News Quiz).

The delegation was accompanied by guest professor René Gendreau.