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Q&A with Raul Leote de Carvalho
Does the quant investment industry need to consider reforms? Raul Leote de Carvalho, board member of Inquire Europe, provides his perspective in a new, extensive Q&A.
Inquire UK webinar
To what extent do mutual funds benefit from securities lending ? On June 9th Inquire UK will host Pedro Saffi for a webinar on how acquiring information from the lending market can be advantageous.
Nostalgic Research: Why Invest in Emerging Markets?
The next installment in our Nostalgic Research series is Why Invest in Emerging Markets? The Role of Conditional Return Asymmetry, published in 2014.
Q&A with Peter Oertmann
The COVID19 pandemic has ignited a global economic crisis. Peter Oertmann, Chairman of the Research Committee of Inquire Europe, took some time to provide his perspective on what is unfolding.
Nostalgic research: Liquidity in 2007
In 2007, the global markets were about to embark on the last financial crisis. What are the parallels we can draw from past research?
Erratic beta puzzles investors
Many institutional investors had hoped that their defensive, low-beta strategies would weather the corona crisis better than they have.
Joint Spring Seminar Riga postponed to March 2021
Due to developing concerns about the COVID-19 (coronavirus) situation, the Board of Inquire Europe and the Inquire UK Council have decided to postpone the Joint Spring Seminar 2020 in Riga to March 2021 in Riga.
'Stay ahead of the crowd'
What will the coming decade bring for quant investors? Igor Tulchinsky, founder of the hedge fund WorldQuant, believes that "only firms with a truly unique approach to discovery and decision-making will set themselves apart and stay ahead of the crowd...
Joint Spring Seminar 2020
Leading academics and investors from around the globe will gather 29-31 March in Riga, Latvia to discuss themes such as asset pricing, financial policies, optimal dynamic asset allocation, passive-aggressive trading and commitment risk.
Presence on LinkedIn
Inquire Europe has launched a community page at LinkedIn As from this week we will be regularly posting announcements and industry insights. It will serve as a new channel to remain informed of all Inquire Europe activities, insights, and more importantly - the research that we endorse.
Call for paper 30th anniversary seminar October 2020
Authors, both academics and from the financial industry, are invited to submit papers for presentation at our 30th anniversary seminar. The seminar is devoted to "Challenges for long term asset allocation over the next 30 years"
Henri Servaes Prize Winner Autumn Seminar 2019
The prize committee of Inquire Europe decided to award the prize for the Autumn Seminar 2019 seminar to Henri Servaes (London Business School), for his presentation entitled “The Costs and Benefits of Performance Fees in Mutual Funds”.
Program Autumn Seminar 2019 now available
From 13 - 15 October the Autumn Seminar will be held in Krakau, Poland. The title of the seminar is "Investing with Machine Learning & New Techniques”. The program is now available.
David Rapach Prize Winner Joint Spring Seminar 2019
The prize committee of Inquire Europe decided to award the prize for the Joint Spring Seminar 2019 seminar to David Rapach (Saint Louis University), for his presentation entitled “Sparse Macro Factors”.
Joint Spring Seminar 2019
From 24 - 26 March the joint spring seminar of Inquire Europe and Inquire UK will be held in Windsor - Berkshire. The program of the seminar entitled "New data, new methods" is now available.
Benjamin Hübel Prize Winner Autumn Seminar 2018
The prize committee of Inquire Europe decided to award the prize for the Autumn Seminar 2018 seminar to Benjamin Hübel (Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nürnberg).
Research Published in Top Finance Journals
Since 2000 a total of 111 research projects were sponsored by Inquire Europe. We are very proud that about 60% of our sponsored research projects has been published in academic literature.
Program Autumn Seminar 2018 now available
From 30 September - 2 October the Autumn Seminar will be held in Budapest. The title of the seminar is "ESG Exposure and Portfolio Construction”. The program is now available.
Guest Invitations Autumn seminar 2018
We stimulate our members to invite guests to the seminar. This helps us to promote Inquire, it’s research and activities. Do you want to invite a guest to join you at the seminar?
Stanislava Nikolova Prize Winner Joint Spring Seminar 2018
The prize committee of Inquire Europe decided to award the prize for the Joint Spring Seminar 2018 seminar to Stanislava Nikolova (University of Nebraska-Lincoln), for her presentation titled "The Bond Pricing Implications of Rating-Based Capital Requirements"
Martin Martens Prize Winner Autumn Seminar 2017
The prize committee of Inquire Europe decided to award the prize for the Autumn 2017 seminar to Martin Martens (Robeco), for his presentation titled "Carry investing on the yield curve"
Guest invitations Autumn Seminar 2017
We stimulate our members to invite guests to the seminar. This helps us to promote Inquire, it’s research and activities. Do you want to invite a guest to join you at the seminar?
Zhongjin Lu and Scott Murray Prize Winners Joint Spring Seminar 2017
The joint prize committee of Inquire Europe and Inquire UK have decided to award the prize for the Spring 2017 seminar to Zhongjin Lu (University of Georgia) and Scott Murray* (Georgia State University) for the presentation titled “Bear Beta”.
Magnus Dahlquist Prize Winner Autumn Seminar 2016
The prize committee of Inquire Europe decided to award the prize for the Autumn 2016 seminar to Magnus Dahlquist (Stockholm School of Economics), for his presentation titled "On Asset Allocation of a Default Pension Fund"
Video registrations Autumn Seminar now available
From 2 - 4 October 2016 the Autumn Seminar 2016 was held at Villa Kennedy in Frankfurt. The video registrations and all seminar materials are available, for Inquire Europe member companies only, on our website.
Young Professionals to join the Autumn Seminar 2016
To create a mix of "juniors" and "seniors" at the seminar members are given the opportunity to have a “Young Professional” within their organization to join a seminar of Inquire Europe. Do you want to bring a "young professional" to the Autumn Seminar?
Program Autumn Seminar 2016 now available
From 2 - 4 October the Autumn Seminar of Inquire Europe will be held in Frankfurt. The program of the seminar entitled "Investing for retirement provision" is now available
Gonçalo Faria Prize Winner Joint Spring Seminar 2016
The joint prize committee of Inquire Europe and Inquire UK have decided to award the prize for the Spring 2016 seminar to Gonçalo Faria for his presentation titled “The correlation risk premium term structure”.
Video registrations Joint Spring Seminar now available
From 13 - 15 March 2016 the Joint Spring Seminar 2016 was held at the Okura in Amsterdam. The video registrations and all seminar materials are available, for Inquire Europe & UK member companies only, on our website.
CQA Spring Conference 2016
Inquire Europe is affilited with Chicago Quantitative Alliance (CQA). For no additional fee, a limited number of Inquire Europe members may participate in the CQA seminars. The program for the spring conference on 6 - 7 April 2016 is now available.
Pierre Collin-Dufresne Prize Winner Autumn Seminar 2015
The prize committee of Inquire Europe decided to award the prize for the Autumn 2015 seminar to Pierre Collin-Dufresne (Swiss Finance Institute, EPFL), for his presentation titled "Do prices reveal the presence of informed trading?"
Video registrations Autumn Seminar now available
From 4 - 6 October we celebrated our 25th anniversary in Athens. The video registrations and all seminar materials are available, for Inquire Europe member companies only, on our website.
CQA Fall Conference 2015
Inquire Europe is affilited with Chicago Quantitative Alliance (CQA). For no additional fee, a limited number of Inquire Europe members may participate in the CQA seminars. The program for the fall conference on 16 - 17 September 2015 is now available.
Inquire anniversary seminar
Inquire Europe was funded 1990. The Group was established to bring together investment professionals interested in understanding and developing quantitative solutions to financial and investment problems. From 4 - 6 October we will celebrate our 25th anniversary in Athens with a seminar on "Liquidity & Trading". The program and invitations for the anniversary seminar will be available in July 2015.
Semyon Malamud Prize Winner Joint Spring Seminar 2015
The joint prize committee of Inquire Europe and Inquire UK have decided to award the prize for the Spring 2015 seminar to Semyon Malamud for his presentation titled “Portfolio Selection with Options”.
CQA Seminars
Inquire Europe is affilited with Chicago Quantitative Alliance - The primary goal of the CQA is to facilitate the interchange of ideas between leading quantitative professionals.
Kris Jacobs Prize Winner Autumn Seminar 2014
It’s with great pleasure that we announce the Autumn 2014 prize winner. The prize was awarded to Kris Jacobs for the paper “Macroeconomic Variables and the Term Structure: Long-Run and Short-Run Dynamics”.