New Developments in Long-Term Asset Management Conference

Monika Piazzesi and Luis M. Viceira, Organizers

May 3-4, 2018

Gotham III Room

Intercontinental Times Square, 300 West 44th Street, New York , New York

Conference Code of Conduct

Thursday, May 3
12:00 pm
Lunch, Central Park Room
12:55 pm
Welcome and Introductory Remarks
Authors and discussants each have 20 minutes followed by 20 minutes of general discussion
1:00 pm
Stephen G. Dimmock, Nanyang Technological University
Neng Wang, Dean Cheung Kong Graduate School of Business
Jinqiang Yang, Shanghai University of Finance and Economics

The Endowment Model and Modern Portfolio Theory
Discussant: Thomas J. Gilbert, University of Washington
2:00 pm
Shmuel Baruch, University of Rome Tor Vergata
Xiaodi (Eddie) Zhang, University of Central Florida

Is Index Trading Benign?
Discussant: Laura Veldkamp, Columbia University and NBER
3:00 pm
Break
3:15 pm
Arpit Gupta, New York University
Kunal Sachdeva, University of Michigan

Skin or Skim? Inside Investment and Hedge Fund Performance (slides)
Discussant: Jules H. van Binsbergen, University of Pennsylvania and NBER
4:15 pm
Break
4:30 pm
Panel on Key Challenges for Long-Term Investors
Ole Christian Bech-Moen, The Norwegian Finance Initiative
Edwin Cass, Canada Pension Plan Investment Board
Elizabeth Hewitt, Sloan Foundation
5:30 pm
Adjourn
6:30 pm
Reception and Dinner, Private Dining Room
Speaker: Lawrence Summers, Harvard University and NBER
Friday, May 4
8:00 am
Breakfast
8:30 am
Bryan T. Kelly, Yale University and NBER
Seth Pruitt, Arizona State University
Yinan Su, Johns Hopkins University

Characteristics Are Covariances: A Unified Model of Risk and Return
Discussant: Jonathan Lewellen, Dartmouth College and NBER
9:30 am
Break
9:45 am
Valentin Haddad, University of California, Los Angeles and NBER
Tyler Muir, University of California, Los Angeles and NBER

Do Intermediaries Matter for Aggregate Asset Prices? (slides)
Discussant: Motohiro Yogo, Princeton University and NBER
10:45 am
Break
11:00 am
Marcin Kacperczyk, Imperial College London
Savitar Sundaresan, Imperial College London
Tianyu Wang, Tsinghua University

Do Foreign Investors Improve Market Efficiency? (slides)
Discussant: Thomas Philippon, New York University and NBER
12:00 pm
Lunch
12:20 pm
Panel Discussion on Current Developments in Asset Markets
Kent D. Daniel, Columbia University and NBER
Michael J. Fleming, Federal Reserve Bank of New York
Antti Ilmanen, AQR
1:15 pm
Break
1:30 pm
Lars Lochstoer, University of California, Los Angeles and NBER
Paul Tetlock, Columbia University

What Drives Anomaly Returns?
Discussant: Christopher Polk, London School of Economics
2:30 pm
Kewei Hou, The Ohio State University
Chen Xue, University of Cincinnati
Lu Zhang, The Ohio State University and NBER

Replicating Anomalies (slides)
Discussant: Robert F. Stambaugh, University of Pennsylvania and NBER
3:30 pm
Adjourn