{"id":419,"date":"2026-04-27T09:43:12","date_gmt":"2026-04-27T09:43:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/fofi2026\/?page_id=419"},"modified":"2026-04-27T13:48:53","modified_gmt":"2026-04-27T13:48:53","slug":"2026-conference-summary","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/fofi2026\/","title":{"rendered":"2026 Conference summary"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"419\" class=\"elementor elementor-419\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-a4034d6 e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"a4034d6\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t<img class=\"e-image-base \" \n\t\t\t\t\tdata-interaction-id=\"73b5495\" \n\t\t \n\t\t \n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tid=\"424\"\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tsrc=\"https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/fofi2026\/files\/2026\/04\/Conference-Dinner-Group-Photo-scaled-e1777283099362.jpg\"\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\twidth=\"1920\"\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\theight=\"1170\"\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tsrcset=\"https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/fofi2026\/files\/2026\/04\/Conference-Dinner-Group-Photo-scaled-e1777283099362.jpg 1920w, https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/fofi2026\/files\/2026\/04\/Conference-Dinner-Group-Photo-scaled-e1777283099362-300x183.jpg 300w, https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/fofi2026\/files\/2026\/04\/Conference-Dinner-Group-Photo-scaled-e1777283099362-1024x624.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/fofi2026\/files\/2026\/04\/Conference-Dinner-Group-Photo-scaled-e1777283099362-768x468.jpg 768w, https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/fofi2026\/files\/2026\/04\/Conference-Dinner-Group-Photo-scaled-e1777283099362-1536x936.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/fofi2026\/files\/2026\/04\/Conference-Dinner-Group-Photo-scaled-e1777283099362-492x300.jpg 492w\"\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\talt=\"Conference Dinner Group Photo\"\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\/>\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-634e7cc elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"634e7cc\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p style=\"font-family: Roboto, sans-serif;font-size: 15px;font-style: normal;font-weight: 400;color: #7a7a7a;background-color: #ffffff\">The 2026 FOFI Conference an amazing line-up of speakers on every aspect of factor investing, including classic asset pricing, risk management, machine learning or climate finance.<\/p><p style=\"font-family: Roboto, sans-serif;font-size: 15px;font-style: normal;font-weight: 400;color: #7a7a7a;background-color: #ffffff\">The conference was framed by five excellent keynote talks from Svetlana Bryzgalova (London Business School), \u00c1lvaro Cartea (University of Oxford), Matthias Hanauer (Robeco), Semyon Malamud (EPFL), and Andrew Patton (Duke University).<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-f505ebd elementor-align-center elementor-widget elementor-widget-button\" data-id=\"f505ebd\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"button.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a class=\"elementor-button elementor-button-link elementor-size-sm\" href=\"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/lums\/research\/centres\/financial-econometrics-asset-markets-macroeconomic-policy\/financial-econometrics-news\/the-5th-frontiers-of-factor-investing-conference\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"elementor-button-content-wrapper\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"elementor-button-text\">Conference news story<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-651c1aa elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"651c1aa\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h2><span style=\"font-size: 14pt\">Prize winners<\/span><\/h2><ul><li><strong>Invesco Factor Investing Prize:<\/strong> <br \/>Stefan Voigt from the University of Copenhagen (K\u00f8benhavns Universitet) for his paper \u201cUncertainty Everywhere: Integrating Conceptual Uncertainty in the Stochastic Discount Factor\u201d.<\/li><li><b>Robeco Sustainable Investing Prize: <br \/><\/b>Niels Strange Gr\u00f8nborg for his paper \u201cCarbon Tilts and Factor Returns\u201d.<\/li><li><b>Quoniam Innovation in Data-Driven Investing Prize: <\/b><br \/>Thomas Gruenthaler from Tilburg University won the Quoniam Asset Management Innovation in Data-Driven Investing Prize for the paper \u201cA Credit-Risk Explanation for Momentum\u201d.<\/li><\/ul>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t<img class=\"e-image-base \" 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