Events
CQA Spring Conference 2018
Las Vegas
Event begins: Apr 04, 2018
Event ends: Apr 05, 2018
The Spring Conference will be held on April 4-5 at the Wynn Hotel.
The conference begins with a cocktail reception on Tuesday night followed by two full days of conference proceedings on Wednesday and Thursday.
A cocktail reception and dinner are held on Wednesday evening and the Thursday proceedings are followed by the Annual Texas Hold’em Tournament.
| Presenter | Title | Organization |
|---|---|---|
| Tyler Muir | Should Investors Time Volatility? | UCLA |
| Fernanda Salas | RETIREMENT FUNDING: A World of Ideas to Mitigate a Global Crisis | CoS, VITALIS |
| Harsh Parikh | Impact of Market Conditions on Active Equity Managemen | PGIM |
| Leigh Sneddon | Designing Quantitative Strategies and the Narrowness of Breadth | Mayfield Investment Solutions |
| Steve Foerster | Are Cash Flows Better Stock Return Predictors Than Profits? | Ivey Business School, Western University |
| Yosef Bonaparte | Government Certainty Index and Stock Market Outcomes | University of Colorado Denver |
| Victor Stango | Bedrock for Behavioral Economics: Measuring and modeling Multiple Behavioral Factors | UC Davis |
| Dag Wetterwald | Portfolio Construction in the Absence of Alphas | RBC Global Asset Management |
| Scott Alexrod | Correlation Between Democrazy and Market Returns Since 1900 | Falcon Management |
| Robin Hanson | “The Elephant in the Brain” | Author |
| Ari Paul | “Cryptocurrency as an Asset Class” | BlockTower Capital |
| Stefano Cavaglia | “A Wealth Management Perspective on Factor Premia and the Value of Downside Protection” | Findex 30 |
| Jeffrey Sommers | “Against the Center: The Economic Forces Driving the Global Populist Turn, From Trump, Putin, Orban, Erodgan to Corbyn and Sanders” | University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee |
