May 5 – 7, 2027 | Boston, MA 11th Northeastern University Finance Conference
Overview
At the 11th Northeastern Finance Conference, leading scholars present and discuss frontier research in finance. The program has eight papers, each paired with a senior discussant, and a keynote address by Itay Goldstein of the Wharton School. Jean Hynes, CEO and Managing Partner of Wellington Management, and Yie-Hsin Hung, CEO and President of State Street Investment Management, join the industry panel.
The conference begins with a Wednesday evening reception. Thursday's program is hosted on-site at Wellington Management in Boston's Financial District. The day begins with the firm's morning meeting, where portfolio managers pitch and discuss investment ideas, and conference participants are invited to listen in. The academic sessions are followed by a Boston-themed social event in the afternoon and a formal conference dinner. On Friday, the conference is on the Northeastern University campus for the remaining paper presentations and ends with a luncheon, where we announce the Best Paper, Best Student Paper, and Best Discussant awards. We invite you to join us in Boston in May 2027.
Speakers in 2027
Keynote speaker
Itay Goldstein
Itay Goldstein is the Joel S. Ehrenkranz Family Professor, Professor of Finance, and Professor of Economics at The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. He also serves as Chair of the Finance Department at Wharton.
Expert panelists
Nicole Boyson
Boyson is a professor of finance and chairs the finance department at Northeastern's D'Amore-McKim School of Business.
Jean Hynes
Hynes is the managing partner and CEO of Wellington Management, a Boston-based asset manager with $1.3 trillion AUM as of December 2025.
Yie-Hsin Hung
Hung is the president and CEO of State Street Investment Management, one of the largest asset managers with $5.6 trillion AUM as of March 2026.
Program committee
Snehal Banerjee
University of Michigan
Hank Bessembinder
Arizona State University
Nick Bollen
Vanderbilt University
Philip Bond
University of Washington
Audra Boone
Colorado State University
Scott Cederburg
University of Arizona
Jeff Coles
University of Utah
Tony Cookson
Penn State University
Kimberly Cornaggia
Penn State University
Jess Cornaggia
Penn State University
Ran Duchin
Boston College
Alexander Dyck
University of Toronto
Joey Engelberg
University of California, San Diego
Rich Evans
University of Virginia
Mike Ewens
Columbia University
Eli Fich
Drexel University
Nick Gantchev
University of Virginia
Xavier Giroud
Columbia University
Todd Gormley
Washington University in St. Louis
John Griffin
University of Texas, Austin
Gerard Hoberg
University of Southern California
Zoran Ivkovich
Michigan State University
Kathleen Kahle
Wake Forest University
Jon Karpoff
University of Washington
Xiaoji Lin
University of Minnesota
Nadya Malenko
Boston College
Robert Marquez
University of California, Davis
Pedro Matos
University of Virginia
Micah Officer
Loyola Marymount University
Paolo Pasquariello
University of Michigan
Neil Pearson
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Mitchell Petersen
Northwestern University
Gordon Phillips
Dartmouth College
Veronika Pool
Vanderbilt University
Amiyatosh Purnanandam
University of Texas, Austin
Uday Rajan
University of Michigan
Ricardo Reis
London School of Economics
Adriana Robertson
University of Chicago
Berk Sensoy
Vanderbilt University
Richard Thakor
University of Minnesota
Annette Vissing-Jorgensen
Federal Reserve Board
Tracy Wang
University of Minnesota
Michael Weisbach
Ohio State University
James Weston
Rice University
Program organizers
Da Huang
Prof. Huang is an empirical researcher interested in the role of institutional investors in the economy, with a focus on mutual funds, passive investing, and exchange-traded funds.
Nicole Boyson
Prof. Boyson chairs D'Amore-McKim's Finance Academic Group. Her research is on institutional investors, and she currently studies conflicts of interest among financial advisors.