As part of its activities, Inquire Europe, organizes bi-annual seminars. The autumn seminar will be organized in Utrecht (The Netherlands) from 12–14 October 2025. The theme of the seminar is:
“ETFs, Indexing, and Market Impact””
This seminar is motivated by the rising passive ownership and the development of new investment vehicles in the capital markets. We welcome papers that address how to structure portfolios and quantitatively assess risks in today’s markets. Potential topics of interest include but are not limited to active and passive investing, portfolio choice with market impact, implications of benchmarking, index tracking, investment vehicles / fund structures, fees & incentives, portfolio rebalancing & trading, and transaction costs.
Authors, both academics and from the financial industry, are invited to submit papers for presentation at the seminar. Papers should have a quantitative background, with empirical testing of models, or other practical relevance and applications. We also encourage submissions of papers on subtopics in the broad area of institutional investing and asset management that do not fit the main topic for the seminar.
The audience of the Inquire seminar consists of financial professionals, mostly asset managers, all with experience in quantitative analysis of financial markets. A typical presentation will last around 30 minutes, followed by a 30-minute discussion with the audience. The Program Committee of Inquire Europe Papers will select papers for presentation.
Application Process & Deadline
We kindly request you to submit your paper online before 18 April 2025. The selection will be based on complete papers. The Program Committee of Inquire Europe Papers will select papers for presentation.
Inquire Europe Prize
There is a prize of €4 000 available for the best paper presented at the meeting. The Prize Committee of INQUIRE Europe will select the best paper.
Inquire Europe will pay the travel (economy class) and lodging expenses for the speakers at the meeting.
We are looking forward to receiving your papers.
Raul Leote de Carvalho, Chair of the Program Committee Inquire Europe
and Deputy Head of the Quantitative Research Group of BNP Paribas Asset Management
Magnus Dahlquist, Academic Coordinator Inquire Europe
and Professor of Finance at the Stockholm School of Economics