CFAs: Kellogg-Morgan Stanley Sustainable Investing Challenge 2025

The competition is an opportunity to apply core financial principles to target economic, social and environmental challenges through sustainable investing.

The Kellogg-Morgan Stanley Sustainable Investing Challenge seeks to identify the next generation of sustainable finance practitioners, connect emerging leaders with industry professionals and foster even greater emphasis on sustainability at graduate schools around the world. The Challenge has engaged over 2,500 students from more than 100 global academic institutions.

Focus Areas

• Pitches might focus on areas like water, energy, food, social mobility, climate change, plastic waste, education or health care, among others.

Benefits

• Networking Opportunities
• Chance to network with and get feedback from leading financial professionals.
• Master Class Lecture Series
• Four lectures by renowned professors in impact finance from top universities.
• Career Trek
• Small-group networking sessions with industry professionals.
• Finals in London, UK
• The chance for a trip to London, UK to present your proposals to industry leaders

Award Information

• $10,000 Prize for First Place Team.

Eligibility Criteria

• Teams are limited to a maximum of four (4) members.
• All team members must be currently enrolled in a graduate program at the time of the prospectus submission. Your team may include members from different graduate schools.
• All ideas must be the original ideas of the team members.

Ineligibility Criteria

• Undergraduate students are not eligible.

Application Requirements

• These elements are the essentials of a competitive entry. Please review carefully, as failure to include any of the following will significantly reduce your competitiveness:
  • ​Format
    • 2-page maximum, no cover page, no identifying information
  • Structure
    • Investment thesis
    • Fund size, investment size, and investment criteria
    • Diagram of fund or instrument
    • Asset class and capital structure
  • Target
    • Target geography
    • Size of addressable market
    • Estimate of scalability ​
  • ​Financial Model
    • Fees and incentives
    • Target investor pool(s)
    • Due diligence process
    • Returns and cash flows
    • If model must require philanthropic capital or concessionary returns, include proposed path to market rate returns
    • Time horizon
  • Impact
    • Environmental or social impact thesis
    • Metrics to measure impact

For more information, visit Kellogg-Morgan Stanley.