EDHEC Business School is teaming up with the European Financial Management Association to jointly organise the European Financial Management Symposium 2008 which will be held on the School's campus in Nice on 17th - 19th April 2008. This exclusive academic event will benefit from the exceptional participation of keynote speaker Robert Arnott and symposium chair Lionel Martellini, who have both established reputations for bringing together academic expertise and industry experience:

Lionel Martellini is a Professor of Finance at EDHEC Business School and the Scientific Director of the EDHEC Risk and Asset Management Research Centre. Lionel is a member of the editorial board of The Journal of Portfolio Management and The Journal of Alternative Investments.  


Robert Arnott is Chairman and Founder of Research Affiliates and Editor of the Financial Analysts Journal. He has been a frequent contributor to leading financial journals and books and he has received five Graham and Dodd Scrolls and Awards, awarded annually by CFA Institute for best article of the year.

The symposium will bring together thirty academics and practitioners from all over the world to present their research papers on all aspects of risk and asset management including:

 

Asset allocation

Risk and performance measurement

Alternative investments

Risk management

Portfolio optimisation

Speakers are coming from a wide variety of sources including Cass Business School, HEC Montreal, Maastricht University, Princeton University, Laval University, and Credit Agricole and EDHEC's own researchers such as René Garcia, Felix Goltz and Joelle Miffre will also be presenting their papers.  Full details can be found here

The EFM Association encourages research into finance and the flow of financial management knowledge among its members who are all international academics, practitioners and students.

The EDHEC Risk and Asset Management Research Centre is the premier European centre for applied research into asset allocation and plays a vital role in spreading EDHEC's reputation for maintaining the very highest academic standards in finance on an international scale. EDHEC is the business school in mainland Europe that is most often quoted in the economic press such as the Financial Times and the Economist so the visibility of the research for future employers of EDHEC students is high.

This symposium has received the kind support of Europlace Institute of Finance

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