2023 Consortium on Asset Management
Monday, 13th March 2023 Cambridge, England
Supported by Cambridge Judge Business School's Centre for Endowment Asset Management (CEAM) and FMA, the Consortium is designed for European finance faculty who are currently working on research in asset management and related topics. Priority will be given to researchers who have received their doctorates within the last five years.
The consortium will be focused, with 5-6 high-quality papers, discussants, and a limited number of other researchers. Distinguished members of the finance profession, and practitioners, will provide feedback to presenters and discuss issues in asset management as well as aspects of academic publishing and career development.
The theme for this year’s workshop will be Asset Management. We particularly encourage papers within this theme that focus on: investing over the long-term; index investing; responsible investing; fund governance; factor investing; disruptive trends/technologies and how they’re influencing investors; and machine learning applications to asset management.
The consortium will be held as an in-person event in Cambridge, England.
Accepted Papers
Electronic Program Note: there will be no print copies of the program
08:45 – 09:00
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Welcome & Introductions
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Conference Chairs:
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David Chambers, Invesco Professor of Finance, Cambridge Judge Business School Mark Hutchinson, Professor and Chair of Finance, University College Cork Oğuzhan Karakaş, Associate Professor in Finance, Cambridge Judge Business School, University of Cambridge Mark Mulcahy, Professor in Corporate Finance, University College Cork Pedro Saffi, Professor of Financial Economics, Cambridge Judge Business School, University of Cambridge
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Session Chair: Oğuzhan Karakaş, University of Cambridge
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09:00 – 09:45
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Defining Greenwashing
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Ariadna Dumitrescu, Javier Gil-Bazo, Feng Zhou
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Discussant: Florian Weigert, University of Neuchatel
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09:45 – 10:30
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Green or Brown: Which Overpriced Stock to Short Sell?
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Xintong (Eunice) Zhan, Weiming (Elaine) Zhang
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Discussant: Annalisa Tonetto, University of Cambridge
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10:30 – 11:00
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Break with Coffee and Tea
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Session Chair: Nikolaos Vasilas, Lancaster University
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11:00 – 11:45
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Seasonal Momentum in Option Returns
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Steven L. Heston, Christopher S. Jones, Mehdi Khorram, Shuaiqi Li, Haitao Mo
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Discussant: John O'Brien, University College Cork
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11:45 – 12:30
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Resurrecting the Value Factor from its Redundancy
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Manuel Ammann, Tobias Hemauer, Simon Straumann
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Discussant: Sabine Bernard, Goethe University
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12:30 – 13:30
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Lunch
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13:30 – 14:30
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Keynote Presentation:
Mariassunta Giannetti - Is disclosure a solution to greenwashing?
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14:30 – 14:45
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Break with Coffee and Tea
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Session Chair: Elias Ohneberg, University of Cambridge
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14:45 – 15:30
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Back to the Roots: Ancestral Origin and Mutual Fund Manager Portfolio Choice
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Manuel Ammann, Alexander Cochardt, Simon Straumann, Florian Weigert
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Discussant: Marc Lipson, University of Virginia
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15:30 – 16:15
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Social Ties, Comovements, and Predictable Returns
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Lin Peng, Sheridan Titman, Muhammed Yönaç, Dexin Zhou
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Discussant: Abhinav Goyal, University of Birmingham
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16:15 - 16:25
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Best Paper Voting
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16:25 – 16:40
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Break with Coffee and Tea
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16:40 – 16:55
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Closing Remarks
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Keynote Presenter
Mariassunta Giannetti - Is disclosure a solution to greenwashing?
We are delighted to confirm Professor Mariassunta Giannetti as the Keynote Presenter at the Consortium.
Professor Giannetti is a professor of Finance at the Stockholm School of Economics, a CEPR research fellow, and a research associate of the ECGI. She holds a Ph.D. in Economics from the University of California, Los Angeles, and completed her B.A. and M.Sc. at Bocconi University (Italy).
Professor Giannetti has broad research interests in corporate finance and financial intermediation. She has published highly-cited research in leading journals in Finance, Economics, and Management, including the Journal of Political Economy, the Journal of Finance, the Journal of Financial Economics, the Review of Financial Studies, the American Economic Review, the Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, the Review of Finance, and Management Science.
Professor Giannetti currently serves as associate editor of the Journal of Finance and the Journal of Financial Economics and was an associate editor of the Review of Financial Studies and the Review of Finance, among other journals.
Registration
Registration is now open. The fee to attend the conference is $60 USD. Travel expenses, and accommodation, are the responsibility of each registrant. Lunch and refreshments will be provided on the day.
Location
The Consortium will take place in the Webb Library, Jesus College.
Please note that photography is not permitted on College grounds.
Directions
Consortium Co-Chairs
- David Chambers, Invesco Professor of Finance, Cambridge Judge Business School, University of Cambridge
- Mark Hutchinson, Professor and Chair of Finance, University College Cork
- Oğuzhan Karakaş, Associate Professor in Finance, Cambridge Judge Business School, University of Cambridge
- Mark Mulcahy, Professor in Corporate Finance, University College Cork
- Pedro Saffi, Professor of Financial Economics, Cambridge Judge Business School, University of Cambridge
Consortium Goals
- Present high-quality new and unpublished research
- Bring together younger scholars working in asset management and related topics and help them benefit from engaging with each other and gaining exposure to more senior faculty
Program Participation Applications and Selection Process
Click here to view the Call for Papers. Applications to present current research will be selected on a competitive basis, with priority given to European finance faculty who have been awarded their doctorate within the last five years. Criteria will include the nature of the research problem, implications of the proposed research, the quality of the research design, and the expected contribution of the research to the literature.
The paper submission fee is $25 USD for members and $35 USD for non-members.
The submission period has closed.
Accepted presenters will be exempted from paying the registration fee and will be invited to a conference networking dinner. One night’s accommodation will be covered for presenters.
Program Committee Member Application
The submission period has closed.
Best Paper Prize
The Best Paper recipient will receive $500 USD and an invitation to present the paper at a future FMA European Conference.
Formal Participant Letters & Invitations
For participants seeking a formal invitation from FMA for either institution support or visa requirements, please contact Dawn Appleby at +1.833.946.4512 or [email protected]. Participants must be registered for the conference in order to receive a requested letter.
THANK YOU to our sponsors and supporters
We would like to thank the Cambridge Centre for Endowment Asset Management (CEAM) for their kind support and collaboration.
Past Consortium Programs
- View the program from the 2022 Consortium on Asset Management and Fintech
- View the program from the 2020 Consortium on Asset Management
- View the program from the 2019 Consortium on Factor Investing
- View the program from the 2018 Consortium on Trading Strategies and Institutional Investing
- View the program from the 2017 Consortium on Institutional Investing and Hedge Funds
- View the program from the 2015 Consortium on Activist Investors, Corporate Governance and Hedge Funds
- View the program from the 2014 Consortium on Research in Hedge Funds, Trading Strategies & Related Topics
#FMAConsortium2023 - Follow the Conversation
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