Conference registration is by invitation only and will open in early August.

Please email Kyle Hernandez to register and for any questions regarding registration.

The 2026 program will be finalized and published in August.

Submit a Paper

The 2026 AIM Investment Conference will be held on October 9–10 in Austin, Texas. The conference aims to advance research in investment management and to provide a platform for scholars to share ideas and engage in meaningful discussion. A select group of outstanding working papers will be presented and discussed by leading academics in the field.

Submissions are invited for recent working papers on topics including mutual funds, hedge funds, pension funds, and investment management more broadly. The submission deadline is May 31, 2026, and the submission fee is $75. The conference program will be announced in early August.

For further inquiries, please contact Clemens Sialm.

The conference is co-sponsored by the AIM Investment Center and Dimensional Fund Advisors.

We have a room block reserved at:

AT&T Executive Education and Conference Center
1900 University Ave
Austin, TX 78705

Book a room
Booking deadline is September 8, 2026

2022 AIM Investment Conference

• “Trading Ahead of Barbarians’ Arrival at the Gate: Insider Trading on Non-Inside Information”
• “Index Providers: Whales Behind the Scenes of ETFs”
• “The Performance of Hedge Fund Performance Fees”
• “Predictable Price Pressure”
• “Bond Price Fragility and the Structure of the Mutual Fund Industry”
• “Institutional Corporate Bond Pricing”
• “Are Judges Randomly Assigned to Chapter 11 Bankruptcies? Not According to Hedge Funds”
• “Investor Protections and Stock Market Participation: An Evaluation of Financial Advisor Oversight”

2019 AIM Investment Conference

Thursday-Friday, September 19-20, 2019

“Fund Tradeoffs”
Authors: Lubos Pastor (University of Chicago), Robert Stambaugh (University of Pennsylvania), and
Lucian Taylor (University of Pennsylvania)
Discussant: Paul Irvine (Texas Christian University)

“The Allocation of Talent across Mutual Fund Strategies”
Authors: Andrea Buffa (Boston University) and Apoorva Javadekar (Indian School of Business)
Discussant: Itay Goldstein (University of Pennsylvania)

“Private Company Valuations by Mutual Funds”
Authors: Vikas Agarwal (Georgia State University), Brad Barber (University of California, Davis),
Si Cheng (Chinese University of Hong Kong), Allaudeen Hameed (National University of Singapore),
and Ayako Yasuda (University of California, Davis)
Discussant: Pedro Matos (University of Virginia)

“Institutional Brokerage Networks: Facilitating Liquidity Provision”
Authors: Munhee Han (University of Texas at Dallas), Sanghyun (Hugh) Kim (University of Texas at
Dallas), and Vikram K. Nanda (University of Texas at Dallas)
Discussant: Kenneth Ahern (University of Southern California)

“The Worst of Both Worlds? Dual-Registered Investment Advisers”
Author: Nicole Boyson (Northeastern University)
Discussant: Susan Christoffersen (University of Toronto)

“Hedge Funds and Public Information Acquisition”
Authors: Alan Crane (Rice University), Kevin Crotty (Rice University), and Tarik Umar (Rice
University)
Discussant: Alberto Rossi (Georgetown University)

“Sitting Bucks: Zero Returns in Fixed Income Funds”
Authors: Jaewon Choi (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign), Mathias Kronlund (University of
Illinois at Urbana-Champaign), and Ji Yeol Jimmy Oh (Hanyang University)
Discussant: Jennifer Huang (Cheung Kong Graduate School of Business)

“Private Equity Returns, Cash Flow Timing, and Economic Consequences for Investors”
Authors: Stephannie Larocque (University of Notre Dame), Sophie Shive (University of Notre Dame),
and Jennifer Sustersic Stevens (Ohio University)
Discussant: Qifei Zhu (Nanyang Technological University)

2016 AIM Investment Conference

Thursday-Friday, September 15-16, 2016

“Efficiently Inefficient Markets for Assets and Asset Management”
Authors: Nicolae Gârleanu (University of California, Berkeley) and Lasse Pedersen (Copenhagen
Business School)
Discussant: Laura Veldkamp (New York University)

“A Tale of Two Types: Generalists vs. Specialists in Asset Management”
Authors: Rafael Zambrana (Nova School of Business and Economics) and Fernando Zapatero
(University of Southern California)
Discussant: Marcin Kacperczyk (Imperial College London)

“Financial Conglomerate Affiliated Hedge Funds: Risk Taking Behavior and Liquidity Transformation”
Authors: Francesco Franzoni (University of Lugano) and Mariassunta Giannetti (Stockholm School of Economics)
Discussant: Veronika Pool (Indiana University)

“Funding Liquidity Risk of Funds of Hedge Funds: Evidence from their Holdings”
Authors: Vikas Agarwal (Georgia State University), George Aragon (Arizona State University), and
Zhen Shi (Georgia State University)
Discussant: Ronnie Sadka (Boston College)

“Mutual Fund Holdings of Credit Default Swaps: Liquidity, Yield, and Risk Taking”
Authors: Wei Jiang (Columbia University) and Zhongyan Zhu (Chinese University of Hong Kong)
Discussant: Richard Evans (University of Virginia)

“A Dynamic Theory of Mutual Fund Runs and Liquidity Management”
Author: Yao Zeng (University of Washington, Seattle)
Discussant: David Musto (University of Pennsylvania)

“Mutual Fund Flows and Fluctuations in Credit and Business Cycles”
Authors: Azi Ben-Rephael (Indiana University), Jaewon Choi (University of Illinois at Urbana-
Champaign), and Itay Goldstein (University of Pennsylvania)
Discussant: Ron Kaniel (University of Rochester)

“Institutional Trading around Corporate News: Evidence from Textual Analysis”
Authors: Alan Huang (University of Waterloo), Hongping Tan (York University), and Russ Wermers
(University of Maryland)
Discussant: Joey Engelberg (University of California at San Diego)