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2025 Applied Finance Conference 

Monday, 19 May 2025 | St. John's University, New York, NY

The Thirteenth Annual FMA Applied Finance Conference will be hosted at the Peter J. Tobin College of Business at St. John’s University’s  Manhattan campus (101 Astor Place, New York, NY 10003) located in the heart of New York City’s most vibrant neighborhoods. 

The Conference is much smaller and more focused than the FMA’s traditional meetings and includes a relatively small number of papers to provide ample opportunity for presentations and discussion by participants. FMA seeks high-quality papers from scholars and practitioners in the fields of finance and accounting that:

  • Inform practice and advance the frontiers of academic research in directions relevant to practice.
  • Address issues that are relevant to contemporary issues globally and for policy formation and assessment.
  • Introduce new hypotheses that have the potential to stimulate additional research.

Program Co-Chairs

Mikael Bergbrant,  Associate Professor of Finance Reed-McDermott Professor
St. John's University

Jason Berkowitz, Associate Dean of Faculty and Professor of Finance
St. John's University

Betty Simkins, Regents Professor of Finance, Head, Department of Finance, Williams Companies Chair of Business & Professor of Finance
Oklahoma State University

    

 

Conference Program Featuring Keynote Speaker

David Lee, Interim Chief Investment Officer 
Everest

David Lee is currently the Interim Chief Investment Officer at Everest; he previously held the position of Senior Vice President, Investments.  Prior to joining Everest in 2023, Mr. Lee was Co-head of Americas Insurance Fixed Income Portfolio Management at Goldman Sachs from 2008 to 2023. 

Everest Group, Ltd. is a global underwriting leader providing best-in-class property, casualty, and specialty reinsurance and insurance solutions that address customers’ most pressing challenges. Known for a 50-year track record of disciplined underwriting, capital and risk management, Everest, through its global operating affiliates, is committed to underwriting opportunity for colleagues, customers, shareholders, and communities worldwide. Everest is in over 100 countries across 6 continents. Everest Group, Ltd. is listed on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE: EG) and is a component of the S&P 500 index.

Paper Submissions

The paper submission deadline was Monday, 3 February 2025. We are no longer accepting submissions.

The editors of Financial Management (FM), the flagship journal of FMA International, will be apprised by the conference program committee of papers that the committee assesses to be of particularly high-quality.  In select cases, the editors will “lightly solicit” papers for submission to FM by offering fast-turnaround, high-quality reviews, waived initial submission fees, and enhanced marketing of papers that are eventually accepted through this submission route. Referees for “lightly-solicited” papers will be made aware that the paper was invited for submission by the editors.  While these invitations do not promise eventual publication of papers in FM, the invitations are only offered to a small number of papers each year that the respective FMA conference program committees identify as likeliest to clear the bar for publication in FM without major revisions.  

Click here to read the Call For Papers.

Other Program Participation

Session Chair/Discussant Applications: Application Deadline: 24 March 2025 - CLICK HERE TO APPLY

#FMAAFC2025 - Follow the Conversation

During the conference, use the hashtag #FMAAFC2025 to follow the conversation on X (Twitter) (@finmgmtassoc) and Facebook (www.facebook.com/FMA.org).

THANK YOU to our sponsors!

Peter J. Tobin College of Business at St. John's University 


Originally founded in 1927, the AACSB accredited Peter J. Tobin College of Business now has more than 3,000 students in a wide variety of undergraduate and graduate programs, all supported by more than 150 faculty, administrators, and staff on the Manhattan and Queens, NY, campuses. The Tobin College’s highly ranked programs are led by an outstanding faculty of teacher-scholars who are widely recognized for their publications, research, experience, and expertise. The Tobin undergraduate business program is ranked #50 by Poets & Quants and our Online MBA program is ranked #42 by U.S. News & World Report.

Founded in 1870, St. John’s University is a private Catholic university that has played a central role in New York City. One of the nation’s most diverse higher education institutions—headquartered in the most pluralistic borough in the world’s most important financial center—St. John’s is one of the top 40 universities in the nation for social mobility, according to U.S. News & World Report.

 

Coffee Break Sponsor 

Center for Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning for Industry at the Institute of Computational and Data Sciences of Penn State University

Penn State’s Center for Applications of Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning to Industry (AIMI) connects industry members with Penn State’s vast research community of artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) researchers and their students to solve real-world problems and seize market opportunities.

As a center in Penn State’s interdisciplinary Institute for Computational and Data Sciences (ICDS), AIMI works with researchers throughout Penn State’s 12 academic colleges and 24 campuses.