2025 Consortium on Asset Management
24 Feb 2025
08:45 -17:00
Time shown in local time
- Open to: Those from academia and industry working in research that focuses on asset management
- Cost: $60. Travel expenses, and accommodation, are the responsibility of each registrant.
- Lunch and refreshments: To be provided on the day of the Consortium.
Christ's College
St Andrew’s Street
Cambridge
CB2 3BU
United Kingdom
Overview
As the Centre for Endowment Asset Management (CEAM) at Cambridge Judge Business School, we are proud to host the 2025 Consortium on Asset Management in partnership with the Financial Management Associations (FMA) at Christ’s College, Cambridge, England.
The Consortium is designed for European finance faculty who are actively working on research in asset management and related fields. Priority will be given to researchers who have received their doctorates within the last 5 years.
Consortium goals:
- Present high-quality, new, and unpublished research.
- Bring together younger scholars working in factor investing and related areas, fostering collaboration and exposure to senior faculty.
Paper submissions
Research themes
We particularly encourage submissions that focus on topics such as:
- Corporate governance and voting
- Financial market history
- Traditional and alternative asset classes
- Mutual funds and hedge funds
- Responsible investing
Keynote speaker and the programme
The Keynote Speaker for the Consortium is Richard B. Evans, Donald McLean Wilkinson Research Chair and Senior Associate Dean for Research, Darden School of Business, University of Virginia.
The Consortium programme will be available towards the end of December.
More information on the keynote and the programme can be found at https://www.fma.org/cam2025.
Agenda
08:15 – 08:45
Onsite badge collection
08:45 – 09:00
Welcome and introductions
- Mark Hutchinson, Professor and Chair of Finance, University College Cork
- Oğuzhan Karakaş, Associate Professor in Finance, University of Cambridge
- Mark Mulcahy, Professor in Corporate Finance, University College Cork
- Pedro Saffi, Professor of Financial Economics, University of Cambridge
09:00 – 09:45
Stealthy Shorts: Informed Liquidity Supply
Presenting author: Amar Soebhag
Discussant: Dimitris Andriosopoulos, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow
09:45 – 10:30
MiFID II Research Unbundling
Presenting author: Juan Pedro Gomez
Discussant: Thomas Conlon, University College, Dublin
10:30 – 11:00
Refreshment break
Function room, Christ’s College
11:00 – 11:45
Producing AI Innovation and Its Value Implications
Presenting author: Ambrus Kecskes
Discussant: Lucy Wang, University of Cambridge
11:45 – 12:30
Socially Responsible Investing and Multinationals’ Pollution: Evidence from Global Remote Sensing Data
Presenting author: Virginia Gianinazzi
Discussant: Stefan Ruenzi, University of Mannheim
12:30 – 13:30
Lunch
Function room, Christ’s College
13:30 – 14:30
Keynote Presentation – (Not) Everybody’s Working for the Weekend: A Study of Mutual Fund Manager Effort
Presenting author: Richard Evans, University of Virginia
14:30 – 14:45
Refreshment break
Function room, Christ’s College
14:45 – 15:30
Oracles of the Vote: Predicting the Outcomes of Proxy Contests
Presenting author: Ting Yu
Discussant: Abhinav Goyal, Birmingham Business School
15:30 – 16:15
Machine Learning Mutual Fund Flows
Presenting author: Jürg Fausch
Discussant: Daniele Bianchi, Queen Mary, University of London
Research prize
Six finalists will be selected to present their work during the workshop. From these finalists, one winner will be chosen and will receive:
- a monetary prize of $1000 USD, sponsored by CEAM
- an invitation to present the winning paper at a future FMA European Conference