Topics: - What are good approaches to measure the shortfall risk for individuals and pension plans? - What are appropriate models to measure long-run expected returns, volatilities, and correlations for retirement assets? - How good are individuals at saving for retirement and at managing their...

Topics of interest include the following: - Did securitization go wrong? - Did risk management go wrong? - Why is liquidity so volatile and how can we measure its risk? - Was there really systemic risk? - Was there a lack of appropriate due diligence? - How important are conflicts of interests...

Among the topics of interest are: - can firm characteristics (e.g., accounting ratios) be used to predict abnormal stock performance? - are firm fundamental values obtained from stock valuation models useful for stock selection? - does abnormal stock performance follow specific corporate...