Call For Papers
Annual Inquire Europe Symposium (2013)

27-29 October 2013, Munich, Germany

As part of its activities, the Institute for Quantitative Investment Research (INQUIRE) Europe, organizes an annual symposium. This year's symposium will be organized in Munich, Germany, October 27-29, 2013. A major part of the conference will be devoted to: "Alternative portfolio construction".

TOPICS: Relevant sub-topics include:
- fundamental indexing
- beta anomalies
- active management

Authors, both academics and from the financial industry, are invited to submit papers for presentation at the symposium. Papers should have a quantitative background, with empirical testing of models, or other practical relevance and applications. We also encourage submissions of papers also on subtopics in the broad area of Institutional Investing and Asset Management that do not fit the main topic for the conference. The audience of the Inquire symposium consists of financial professionals, mostly asset managers, all with experience in quantitative analysis of financial markets. A typical presentation will last ca. 30 minutes, plus 30 minutes discussion with the audience. Papers for presentation will be selected by the program committee of Inquire.

PAPER SUBMISSION PROCEDURE: Completed papers (including a 200 words abstract on separate sheets) should be sent before Wednesday 8 May 2013 to Theo Nijman at Inquire-Europe@tilburguniversity.edu (no hardcopies required). Selection will be based on full papers.

FUNDING: INQUIRE will pay the travel (economy class) and lodging expenses for the speakers at the meeting. There are prizes for the best papers presented at the meeting, selected by the prize committee of INQUIRE Europe. The amount of the first prize is Euro 4.000, the second prize is Euro 2.000 and the third prize is Euro 1.000.

PROGRAM COMMITTEE:
Chairperson: Helene Harasty
Academic Coordinator: Theo Nijman

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FURTHER INFORMATION: Inquire Europe also sponsors research. For information concerning proposals, see the Inquire Europe proposal page on the web. Questions if any, may be directed to the Inquire e-mail address: inquire-europe@tilburguniversity.edu