
Northern Finance Association
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The Northern Finance Association (NFA) aims to provide high-quality academic finance conferences for Canadians and their friends and colleagues from abroad.
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http://northernfinanceassociation.org 14-02-2017 00:02:17
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#NFA2018 media sponsor, the Canadian Investment Review is covering our annual conference again. Thank you for your support! Caroline Cakebread

#NFA2018 is only two weeks away! Have you checked the conference rooms details Fairmont Richelieu yet? bit.ly/NFAprog18


The Lost Capital Asset Pricing Model bit.ly/2MYxd0d Caroline Cakebread Check out this paper and many others at #NFA2018 Tourisme Charlevoix in less than 2 weeks!

Is There Still a Home Bias in Global Investing? - tinyurl.com/y923vuma #NFA2018 paper Caroline Cakebread International equity mutual funds that hire managers from a country linked to the fund’s geographic mandate exhibit a strong bias to invest in stocks of that country.

This is the week! We look forward to seeing you in Tourisme Charlevoix Fairmont Richelieu starting from Friday for an exciting weekend packed with excellent sessions and networking opportunities, surrounded by spectacular nature #NFA2018

This is such a touching and fitting tribute to my late friend and Rotman School colleague, Peter Christoffersen. He was both brilliant and a joy to spend time with. I can’t help but smile myself whenever I think of his ear-to-ear smile. utoronto.ca/news/peter-chr…


Thank you, Marius Zoican! We try our best to give a chance to our guests to also (re)discover Canada. See you soon!

#NFA2018 is starting this afternoon with the PhD sessions chaired by Susan Christoffersen and burton hollifield as well as the Assistant Professors’ Session led by Michael Brennan



At Northern Finance meeting in Quebec listening to the lunch keynote by Pierre Collin-Dufresne. Index CDS trading volume at $100b/day and in spite of Dodd-Frank the market is still bifurcated. Client trades are expensive & have large mkt impact Northern Finance Association


Northern Finance Association Another good gender paper, “Origins and Real Effects of the Gender Gap”, this one on CEO allocation of capital to managers by gender. To paraphrase, misogynist CEOs allocate less capital to female managers and generate poorer firm performance.

Heard at the NFAs over breakfast: the biggest marketing issue with the launch of a new ETF is the ticker symbol choice. Cute/memorable works. Suggested (only half joking) by Mike Gallmeyer: have an auction price for tickers just like seats at the exchange. Northern Finance Association

Thank you very much Jos Schmitt Erik Sloane @Aequitas_NEO for your support of academic research! #NFA2018