CONFERENCE


              LEADING LIGHTS IN FUND MANAGEMENT RESEARCH


              Centre for Asset Management Research (CAMR)
                        at Cass Business School


                             London, UK
                      Monday 24th August 2009
                             9:00-17:30



     To mark the launch of the Centre for Asset Management
     Research at Cass Business School in London we are
     Organizing a one-day conference immediately after the
     European Finance Association meeting.



     PROGRAMME:


     MORNING SESSION: FUND DISTRIBUTION:


     -Susan Christoffersen (McGill University)
      Cannibalization, Recapture and the Role of Broker
      Affiliation and Compensation


     -Laura Starks (University of Texas at Austin)
      Advertising and Mutual Funds: From Families to Individual
      Funds


     AFTERNOON SESSION: FUND PERFORMANCE:


     -Russell Wermers (University of Maryland)
      Endogenous Benchmarks


     Keynote Speech:


     -Martin Gruber (New York University)
      Implications of Monthly Holdings Data for Mutual Fund
      Analysis


     ROUNDTABLE DISCUSSION:


     Pressing Issues for the Fund Management Industry



     REGISTRATION/FURTHER INFORMATION:


     To register and for further information, please visit:


       http://www.cass.city.ac.uk/camr/events/index.html



     ORGANIZER:


     Aneel Keswani (Cass Business School)

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Posted 7/3/09