Latest Information as of 23rd April 2024.
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Presentations: 25 minutes followed by 5 minutes general discussion. Speakers and session chairs should meet in the lecture theatre at least 5 minutes before their session.
Wednesday, 24 April 2024 | ||
Time | Details | Rooms |
10:00 – 11:00 hrs | Conference Registration | LCC, Lounge |
Session 1 – Parallel Sessions | ||
11:00 – 13:00 hrs | Parallel Session 1A – Factor Investing I Chair: Kevin Schneider Support: Marco Cinquetti | LCC, Training Room 2 |
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11:00 – 13:00 hrs | Parallel Session 1B – Corporate Bonds Chair: Joris Blonk Support: Reka Lantos | LCC, Training Room 3 |
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11:00 – 13:00 hrs | Parallel Session 1C – Options Chair: Manuela Pedio Support: Berke Erdis | LHH, Dalton Suite |
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13:00 – 14:00 hrs | Lunch Break and Poster Session I | LUMS LT2 & 3 Breakout |
14:00 – 14:15 hrs | Welcome and Logistics | LUMS, LT1 |
Session 2 – Keynote (Plenary) Chair: Chelsea Yao Support: Marco Cinquetti | ||
14:15 – 15:15 hrs | Keynote Speech: Marcin Kacperczyk, Imperial College London “Carbon-Transition Risk”“ | LUMS LT 1 |
15:15 – 15:45 hrs | Refreshment Break | LCC, Lounge |
Session 3 – Parallel Sessions | ||
15:45 – 17:45 hrs | Parallel Session 3A – Next Gen Quant Investing Chair: Teng Andrea Support: Berke Erdis | LCC, Training Room 2 |
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15:45 – 17:15 hrs | Parallel Session 3B – Factor Models Chair: Alberto Quaini Support: Marco Cinquetti | LHH Dalton Suite |
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15:45 – 17:45 hrs | Parallel Session 3C – Risk Chair: Christoph Frey Support: Bruno Moreira | LCC Training Room 3 |
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18:00 hrs 18:15 – 20:15 hrs | Coach departs promptly from outside the Management School for The Ashton Memorial Drinks Reception and Canapes Coach departs – drop off City Centre and Campus | The Ashton Memorial |
Thursday, 25th April 2024 | ||
Session 4 – Keynote (Plenary) Chair: Mykola Babiak Support: Berke Erdis | ||
09:00 – 10:00 hrs | Keynote Speech: Magnus Dahlquist, Stockholm School of Economics “The Anatomy of Currency Trading Strategies” | LU, GF LT1 |
10:00 – 10:15 hrs | Refreshment Break | LCC, Lounge |
10:15 – 12:15 hrs | Session 5 – Parallel Sessions | |
10:15 – 12:15 hrs | Parallel Session 5A – Asset Pricing Chair: Alexandre Corhay Support: Alexander Swade | LCC, Training Room 2 |
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10:15 – 12:15 hrs | Parallel Session 5B – Factors & Funds Chair: Yuekun Liu Support: Marco Cinquetti | LCC, Training Room 3 |
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10:15 – 12:15 hrs | Parallel Session 5C – Currencies Chair: Aleksey Kolokolov Support: Reka Lantos | LHH, Dalton Suite |
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12:15 – 13:30 hrs | Lunch Break and Poster Session II | LCC, Lounge |
Session 6 – Keynote (Plenary) Chair: Carsten Rother Support: Marco Cinquetti | ||
13:30 – 14:30 hrs | Keynote Speech: Scott Wolle, Invesco “Mapping the Macro Environment” | LUMS, WP LT17 |
14:30 – 14:45 hrs | Refreshment Break | LCC, Lounge |
14:45 – 16:15 hrs | Parallel Session 7A – Climate Risk Chair: Cheng Xue Support: Lewei He | LCC, Training Centre 2 |
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14:45 – 16:15 hrs | Parallel Session 7B – Mispricing Chair: Soohun Kim Support: Reka Lantos | LCC, Training Room 3 |
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14:45 – 16:15 hrs | Parallel Session 7C – Bonds Chair: Katerina Tsakou Support: Moncef Asmar | LHH, Dalton Suite |
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16:15 – 16:45 hrs | Refreshment Break | LHH, Lounge |
16:45 – 17:45 hrs | Session 8 – Parallel Sessions | |
16:45 – 17:45 hrs | Parallel Session 8A – Hedge Funds and Retail Investors Chair: Xi Dong Support: Bruno Moreira | LCC, Training Room 2 |
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16:45 – 17:45 hrs | Parallel Session 8B – Analysts Chair: Gabriel Cabrera Support: Berke Erdis | LCC, Training Room 3 |
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16:45 – 17:45 hrs | Parallel Session 8C – Sustainability Chair: Raman Uppal Support: Lewei He | LHH, Dalton Suite |
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Conference Dinner | ||
18:15 hrs | A coach departs promptly from outside LUMS for Wyreside Hall | |
18:30 – 19:30 hrs | Welcome Drinks | |
19:30 hrs | Conference Dinner Best Paper Awards:
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22:00 hrs | Coach Departs – Drop off outside LUMS and City Centre |
Friday, 26th April 2024 | ||
Session 9 – Keynote (Plenary) Chair: Olga Kolokova Support: Lewei He | ||
09:00 – 10:00 hrs | Keynote Speech: Laurens Swinkels, Robeco “My Life as a Pracademic: Reflections on Finance in Practice and Academia” | LUMS, WP LT15 |
10:00 – 10:15 hrs | Refreshment Break | LCC, Lounge |
10:15 – 12:15 hrs | Session 10 – Parallel Sessions | |
10:15 – 12:15 hrs | Parallel Session 10A – Transaction Costs & Corporate Bonds Chair: Victor DeMiguel Support: Berke Erdis | LCC, Training Room 2 |
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10:15 – 12:15 hrs | Parallel Session 10B – Factor Portfolio Construction Chair: Nikolaos Vasilas Support: Reka Lantos | LCC, Training Room 3 |
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10:15 – 12:15 hrs | Parallel Session 10C – Forecasting Chair: Franziska Peter Support: Shifan Yu | LHH, Dalton Suite |
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12:15 – 13:30 hrs | Lunch Break and Poster Session III | LCC, Lounge |
13:30 – 15:30 hrs | Session 11 – Parallel Sessions | |
13:30 – 15:30 hrs | Parallel Session 11A – Factor Investing II Chair: Steffen Windmüller Support: Lewei He | LCC, Training Room 2 |
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13:30 – 15:00hrs | Parallel Session 11B – Portfolio Allocation and Factor Models Chair: Costas Xiouros Support: Reka Lantos | LCC, Training Room 3 |
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13:30-15:30 hrs | Parallel Session 11C – Quality Factors Chair: Jerry Sun Support: Moncef Asmar | LHH, Dalton Suite |
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15:30 hrs | End of Conference |
Room References
- LUMS = Lancaster University Management School
- LUMS WP = Lancaster University Management School West Pavilion
- LHH = Lancaster House Hotel
- LCC = Lancaster Conference Centre (which is situated at the back of Lancaster House Hotel)
- LU GF = Lancaster University George Fox
POSTER SESSION I – LUMS, Breakout Space 2 & 3
Wednesday, 24th April 2024
- Stefan Vincenz, Vienna University of Economics and Business
Intangible Value: An International Perspective - Kingway Lin, Virginia Tech
Monetary Policy and the Profitability Premium: The Role of Information Precision - Fabricio Perez, Wilfrid Laurier University
Price Discovery in the Cross-Section: Leaders and Followers (with Diego Amaya, Wilfrid Laurier University) - Desislava Vladimirova, Technical University Darmstadt / Quoniam Asset Management
In the Shadow of Country Risk. Asset Pricing Model of Emerging Market Corporate Bonds - Yuekun Liu, Aalto University
How do We Capture Long-Horizon Factor Timing? Measures and their Application to Hedge and Mutual Funds (with Alexey Malakhov, University of Arkansas) - Alexey Ivashchenko, VU Amsterdam
Call Me Maybe: Corporate Bond Prices Upon Missed Call Opportunities (with Michael Rockinger, HEC Lausanne) - Tom Zeissler, Vienna University of Economics and Business
On the Relevance of Variances and Correlations for Multi-Factor Investors - Dudley Gilder, Cardiff University
Exploring Drift Bias in Asymmetric Jump Estimation and its Implications for Volatility Forecasting (with Kefu Liao & Kevin Evans, Cardiff University) - Stephen Szaura, BI Norwegian School of Business
Weather Variance Risk Premia (with Joon Woo Bae, Case Western Reserve University, Yoontae Jeon, McMaster University - Seyed Mojtaba Mousavi, Queen Mary University of London
COVID-19 Pandemic Risk and the Cross-Section of U.S. Stock Returns (with Ilaria Piatti & George Skiadopoulos, Queen Mary University of London
POSTER SESSION II – LCC, Lounge
Thursday, 25th April 2024
- Lewei He, Lancaster University
The Impact of Misleading Corporate Communication on Stock Performance (with Ingmar Nolte, Chelsea Yao, Lancaster University, Harald Lohre, Robeco) - Shengfeng Mei, University of Glasgow
Quantitative Easing, Banks’ Funding Costs, and Credit Line Fees (with Mario Cerrato, University of Glasgow) - Mingchuan Zhao, Dublin City University
Options Portfolio Selection with Position Limits (with Paolo Guasoni, Dublin City University, Eberhard Mayerhofer, University of Limerick - Charlie Cai, University of Liverpool
Trended Momentum (with Peng Li, University of Bath, Kevin Keasey, University of Leeds) - Can Yilanci, University of Mannheim
To Sell or Not to Sell? Disposition Effect and Investment Style - Borui Qiu, EMLYON Business School
Expanding the Zoo: The Circularity-Factor (with Maximilian Göbel & Claudio Zara, Bocconi University) - George Jiaguo Wang, Lancaster University
The interconnectedness Risk Factor: Extending the Systematic Risk Beyond Market Risk (with Michail Vamvakaris, Lancaster University)
POSTER SESSION III – LCC, Lounge
Friday, 26th April 2024
- Xuesi Wang, University of Edinburgh, Business School
Dividend Forecasts via Machine Learning (with Leonidas G. Barbopoulos & Khaladdin Rzayev, University of Edinburgh) - Alejandro Lopez-Lira, University of Florida
What If Option Closing Prices Were Trustworthy? A Machine Learning Approach (with Mahendrajah Nimalendran & Matthew G. Son, University of South Florida) - Nikolay Pugachyov, University of Neuchatel
Twitter-Based Attention and the Cross-Section of Cryptocurrency Returns (with Arnaud T. Maitre & Florian Weigert, University of Neuchatel) - Xinyu Cui, University of Bristol
Balanced Trading Activity and Asset Pricing(with Zeming Li) - Te-Fen Chen, Hong Kong Polytechnic University
Instrumented Expected Profitability Premiums - Alexander Swade, Lancaster University & Robeco
A Century of Macro Factor Investing – Diversified Multi-Asset Multi-Factor Strategies through the Cycles∗ (with Harald Lohre, Robeco, Mark Shackleton, Lancaster University, Laurens Swinkels, Robeco)