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2023

Consortium on Asset Management

Date: 13 March

Location: Jesus College, Jesus Lane, Cambridge, CB5 8BL

In partnership with Financial Management Association International (FMA), 2023 Consortium on Asset management was focused on asset management, with six high-quality papers being presented and discussed. The keynote was delivered by Professor Mariassunta Giannetti, Professor of Finance, Stockholm School of Economics.

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2022

Lecture – Investing for the Long Term

Date: 18 May

Location: Clare College, Memorial Court, Queen’s Road, Cambridge, CB3 9AJ

We were joined by Dr Antti Imanen, a renowned expert on financial investments, who has approached investing through a quantitative lens that focuses on long run data going back all the way back to the 1990s. He has a PhD in finance from the University of Chicago and has been recognised by the CFA Institute for extraordinary leadership and setting standards for excellence in investment management. During the event he spoke about his new book Investing Amid Low Expected Returns, which looks at the challenge of trying to make the most of return opportunities when markets offer the least. During his lecture he covered all the major asset classes, illiquidity premise, style premia and sources of alpha. His most recent book is a long-awaited follow-up to his first book, Expected Returns, published in 2011.

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2022 Consortium on Asset Management and Fintech

Date: 4 March

Location: Clayton Hotel, Cardiff Lane, Dublin, ROI

Centre for Endowment Asset Management (CEAM) organised its third Consortium in partnership with Financial Management Association International (FMA), in March 2022 in Dublin. The theme for this Consortium was asset management and fintech. The consortium was focused, with six high-quality papers, discussants, and a limited number of other researchers. The programme included a keynote presentation by Raghavendra Rau, Sir Evelyn de Rothschild Professor of Finance, University of Cambridge Judge Business School.

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2021

European Investment Forum 2021

Dates: 12 September, 15:00-20:00, 13 September 08:30-19:45, 14 September 09:00-13:30

Location: University Arms Hotel, Cambridge

Asset owners and investment practitioners joined leading academics at the 2021 European Investment Forum. The Forum, a collaboration between Cambridge Judge Business School’s Centre for Endowment Asset Management (CEAM) and FTSE Russell, aimed to showcase innovative thinking across natural and social sciences and the impact this is having on the global investment space.

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CEAM European investment forum.

2020

2020 Consortium on Asset Management

Date: 24 Feburary, 08:15-16:30

Location: Clare College, Cambridge

Co-hosted by the Centre for Endowment Asset Management (CEAM) and Financial Management Association (FMA), the 2020 Consortium on Asset Management brought together academics and practitioners working in the field of asset management. Six new and yet unpublished research papers were presented and discussed. A keynote was be provided by Nick Bollen, Frank K. Houston Professor of Finance and Faculty Director at Vanderbilt University.

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Jesus College.

2019

Divest or Engage? Strategies for Responsible Investing

Date: 28 October, 09:15-17:30

Location: Downing College, Cambridge

This conference, co-hosted by the Centre for Endowment Asset Management (CEAM) and the European Corporate Governance Institute (ECGI), brought together the latest academic thinking and research to address questions of how best to incorporate environmental, social, and governance (ESG) concerns into investment portfolios.

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Downing College.

AI/ML in Finance: Is It Just Another Bubble?

Date: 8 October, 08:00-17:00

Location: London

This workshop was hosted and organised by the Centre for Endowment Asset Management (CEAM) at the Royal Society London. The event brought together cutting-edge research on financial applications of machine learning and artificial intelligence methods to practitioners. The keynotes were professional academics from a broad range of scientific fields, from finance, statistics, and computer sciences who shared their research on how the latest quantitative methods have been changing the financial services industry.

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CEAM AI-ML.

Conference on Investing for the Long Term (3 days)

Dates: 17 September, 08:30-19:00; 18 September 08:30-19:00; 19 September 08:30-13:45

Location: Clare College, Cambridge

The Conference on Investing for the Long Term 2019 was hosted by the Centre for Endowment Asset Management (CEAM) in Cambridge, UK with the support of BNY Mellon and Newton Investment Management. The 2019 programme focused on the investment approach adopted by long-horizon investors such as sovereign funds, endowments, charitable foundations and family offices managing assets of £0.1bn-£900bn and provided an opportunity to new and returning delegates to further develop their understanding of how to manage funds over the very long term.

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Clare College.

Seminar – Strategy and Tactics for Effective Engagement

Date: 17 May, 11:00-18:00

Location: St John’s College, Cambridge

The Strategy and Tactics for Effective Engagement seminar was hosted by the Centre for Endowment Asset Management (CEAM) at Cambridge Judge Business School in collaboration with the Principles for Responsible Investing (PRI). The event brought together experts in ESG (environment, social and governance) issues, with the goal of deepening and linking practical understanding and current thinking in this area by the academics and practitioners.

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CEAM effective engagement seminar.

European Investment Forum

Dates: 28 April, 16:00-19:30; 29 April, 09:00-20:45

Location: University Arms Hotel, Cambridge

In April, over 50 senior investment practitioners joined leading academics at the 2019 European Investment Forum. The Forum, a collaboration between Cambridge Judge Business School’s Centre for Endowment Asset Management (CEAM) and FTSE Russell, explored the frontiers of investment thinking.

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CEAM European investment forum.

Consortium on Factor Investing, Cambridge, UK

Date: 4 Febuary, 08:15-16:30

Location: Jesus College, Cambridge

On 4 February 2019, the Centre for Endowment Asset Management (CEAM) at Cambridge Judge hosted the Financial Management Association’s (FMA) 2019 Consortium on Factor Investing at Jesus College, Cambridge. The workshop was supported by Invesco Quantitative Strategies, in collaboration with the Centre for Financial Econometrics, Asset Markets and Macroeconomic Policy (EMP) at Lancaster University.

The 2019 Consortium focused on 6 high quality papers that were presented and discussed. Congratulations to Daniele Bianchi (Warwick Business School), Matthias Bűchner (Warwick Business School) and Andrea Tamoni (London School of Economics) whose paper ‘Bond Risk Premia with Machine Learning’ [link to paper] was nominated by Consortium Co-Chairs and participants as the best paper contribution and awarded the Invesco Factor Investing Prize.

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