Nova Finance Center from Nova School of Business & Economics, alongside BPI, is organizing another edition of the Assent Management Conference. This will be the 7th edition and will have as its main subject Technology And The Future Of Asset Management”, which intends to present and bring to discussion the latest academic research breakthroughs regarding Asset Management.
The conference will take place on November 20th, starting 09:15 a.m., in Jupiter Lisbon Hotel, and will have as main speakers Professor Frans A. de Roon (Finance teacher at Tilburg University) and Professor Marcin Kacperczyk (Finance teacher at Imperial College London). There will also be several project presentations, as well as panel discussions and debates.
You can check the conference’s program bellow.
Program
9h00 - Registration
9h15 - Opening: Daniel Traça (Nova SBE’s Dean)
9h30 - Do Foreign Investors Improve Market Efficiency?
Presented by: Marcin Kacperczyk (Imperial College)
Debated by: Miguel Ferreira (Nova SBE)
10h15 - Coffee Break
10h30 - From Merton to Momentum
Presented by: Frans de Roon (Tilburg University)
Debated by: Martijn Boons (Nova SBE)
11h15 – Discussion Panel: Technology and the Future of Asset Management
12h00 - Man vs. Machine: Quantitative and Discretionary Equity Management
Presented by: Simona Abis (Columbia Business School)
Debated by: Rafael Zambrana (Nova SBE)
12h45 - Lunch
14h15 - Finding Fortune: How Do Institutional Investors Pick Asset Managers?
Presented by: Oleg Gredil (Tulane University)
Debated by: Irem Demirci (Nova SBE)
15h00 - House of Funds
Presented by: Natalia Gerasimova (NHH)
Debated by: Melissa Prado (Nova SBE)
15h45 - Coffee Break
16h00 - Competition and Cooperation in Mutual Fund Families
Presented by: Rafael Zambrana (Nova SBE)
Debated by: Javier Gil-Bazo (Pompeu Fabra)
16h45 - Competition and Cooperation in Mutual Fund Families
Presented by: Rafael Zambrana (Nova SBE)
Debated by: Javier Gil-Bazo (Pompeu Fabra)
To learn more information on how to attend, please visit this link.