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At a conference that aims to inform practitioners about the latest research insights into institutional money management, leading finance professors from EDHEC-Risk Institute and Princeton University will be presenting research results on investment benchmarks and asset allocation strategies at the Princeton Club of New York in New York City on April 27 next.
The day-long EDHEC-PRINCETON Institutional Money Management Conference represents the first time that these prestigious institutions have joined forces to present their academic research results in finance and the usefulness of their conclusions for the industry to professionals.
Following an introduction on the theme of significant current developments in the investment industry by Lionel Martellini, Raman Uppal and Frank J. Fabozzi of EDHEC-Risk Institute will be looking respectively at equity portfolio construction with better constraints and new forms of fixed-income benchmarks for performance-seeking and liability-hedging portfolios. The morning presentations will be completed with a presentation by John Mulvey of Princeton University on dynamic long-short commodity investment strategies.
The afternoon sessions will feature presentations on asset allocation and risk management by Yacine Aït-Sahalia of Princeton, portfolio selection with alternatives by Jakub Jurek of Princeton, asset allocation decisions in the presence of regime switches by René Garcia of EDHEC-Risk, and long-term investing with short-term constraints by Lionel Martellini.
With one of the aims of the conference being to present state-of-the-art academic research in a relevant and easy-to-follow way, the conference will appeal to all finance professionals and will be of particular interest to institutional investment specialists and members of the press.
