Kellogg-Morgan Stanley Sustainable Investing Challenge 2025 ($10,000 grand prize)

Deadline: January 26, 2025

Applications are open for the Kellogg-Morgan Stanley Sustainable Investing Challenge 2025. Every yr, the Kellogg-Morgan Stanley Sustainable Investing Challenge invitations groups of graduate college students from around the globe to develop and pitch artistic monetary approaches to deal with urgent social and environmental challenges. The Challenge facilitates connections with main business professionals to be able to establish, empower, and encourage those that will make up the way forward for sustainable finance.

The Challenge: Design a Creative Financial Solution for an Urgent Social or Environmental Problem

Prizes

• Grand Prize: $10,000
• Runner Up: $5,000
• Third Place: $2,500

Eligibility

• Teams are restricted to a most of 4 (4) members.
• All staff members have to be at the moment enrolled in a graduate program on the time of the prospectus submission. Undergraduate college students should not eligible.
• Your staff could embody members from totally different graduate colleges.
• All concepts have to be the unique concepts of the staff members.

Judging Criteria

Creativity & Financial Innovation (25%)

• Has the staff proposed an progressive funding car that’s designed to drive each returns and impression? They are on the lookout for both:
  • An progressive monetary construction or
  • A identified funding method utilized creatively to an issue beforehand exterior the scope or attain of a social or environmental problem
• What’s attention-grabbing about this venture? Is it similar to a dozen others or actually progressive?
• Does the proposal have a novel capital construction, e.g., together with totally different types of capital, using numerous varieties of institutional buyers?
• Does the proposal uncover new methods to drive returns, a brand new asset class, or a brand new money stream or worth stream?

Impact & Scale (25%)

• Does this present a scalable answer that may mobilize ample capital and forge vital environmental or human impression?
• Are there particular metrics for impression? Is the impression actual and chronic?
• Does the impression derived from the proposed method stem from the monetary levers fairly than ancillary charitable stays?
• Has the staff demonstrated diligence in defining and projecting impression to be derived?

Feasibility (25%)

• Does the funding thesis appear believable?
• Are there actual sources of risk-adjusted market fee returns right here? (even when contemplating a gestation interval with concessionary returns)
• Could you see institutional buyers responding to and funding this?
• Was the thesis totally researched and is there sturdy proof of monetary depth that includes the general financial system?

Quality of Due Diligence & Financials (20%)

• How thorough and deep is the analysis on the thesis?
• Do the returns and money stream projections maintain water? Has the staff demonstrated sturdy monetary logic and validity of key monetary assumptions?
• Have the important thing funding questions regarding returns, asset high quality, underwriting, and threat administration (each market-based and non-market) been recognized and addressed?
• Does the staff have the talents wanted to execute?  Have they outlined the talents wanted on the funding staff?
• Are the proposed charges and incentives affordable?

Presentation (5%)

• Has the staff been clear, compelling, and concise with their proposal?
• For the ultimate occasion: Have all staff members participated in both the unique presentation or Q&A?

Application

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For extra data, go to Kellogg-Morgan Stanley Sustainable Investing Challenge.