A team of finance students from the Faculty of Business and Economics has won the national 2009 UBS Investment Banking Challenge.

The Monash Clayton campus team of Anup Jois, Aaron Griffin, Tom Lambeth and Raj Thavatajah (Dillon Capital) came out tops at the national final.

The students won $5000 and will be interviewed by UBS for either graduate or internship positions in investment banking. They will also get to spend time with a UBS analyst.

Teams from Monash University and the Universities of Adelaide, Melbourne, NSW, Queensland, Sydney and Western Australia took part in the challenge, which offers students an invaluable opportunity to gain hands-on experience working as an analyst in an investment bank.

The teams were provided with a case study, developed by UBS bankers and based on a real mergers and acquisitions transaction.

They then had to present to a panel of judges for 15 minutes and answer questions typical of those posed to a junior analyst at UBS.