Spring 2026 Conference • Berkeley, CA

UC Berkeley, Haas School of Business
Spieker Forum
Chou Hall, 6th Floor
2220 Piedmont Avenue, Berkeley, CA

The Spring 2026 JOIM Conference will showcase selected topics of timely interest. This will include presentations from the faculty of Haas as well as other leading institutions. Conference consists of a dinner keynote speaker and two days of presentations and discussions with experts in the field.

Agenda

Ronald Kahn, BlackRock, Keynote speaker

Kay Giesecke, Stanford University
Learning Illiquid Asset Prices

Lisa, Goldberg, BlackRock

Terry Hendershott,  University of California, Berkeley
All-to-All Liquidity in Corporate Bonds

Martin Lettau, University of California, Berkeley
High Dimensional Factor Models and the Factor Zoo

Eben Lazarus, University of California, Berkeley
Interest Rates and Equity Valuations

Andrew Lo, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Ananth Madhavan,  University of California, Berkeley
Can Bonds Still Diversify Multi-Asset Portfolios? Income versus Duration in Distinct Correlation Regimes

John Mulvey, Princeton University
Reinforcement Learning for Enhanced Investment Performance, Opportunities and Challenges

Presentation Abstracts