2026 Midwest Finance Annual Meeting

March 12-14, 2026

Radisson Blu Aqua Hotel, Chicago, IL

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Conference Agenda

Overview and details of the sessions of this conference. Please select a date or location to show only sessions at that day or location. Please select a single session for detailed view (with abstracts and downloads if available).

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Session Overview

Session

Bond, Stock, and Bond Mutual Fund Performance

Time:

Saturday, 14/Mar/2026:

10:00am - 11:45am

Session Chair: Brian Henderson, George Washington University

Location: Caribbean

Presentations

Private Investments of Corporate Bond Mutual Funds

Jaewon Choi¹, Nan Qin², Qifei Zhu³

¹Seoul National University; ²Northern Illinois University; ³National University of Singapore

Discussant: Liying Wang (University of Nebraska-Lincoln)

Choi-849-Private Investments of Corporate Bond Mutual Funds.pdf

Bond Factor Momentum and Its Predictability for Stock Returns

Javad Keshavarz, Stace Sirmans

Auburn University

Discussant: Dongchen Zou (Indiana University)

Keshavarz-920-Bond Factor Momentum and Its Predictability for Stock Returns.pdf

Winning At the Starting Line: Underwriter Connections and Municipal Bond Fund Performance

Bingkuan Cao¹, Russ Wermers², Zihan Ye³

¹University of Nebraska-Lincoln; ²University of Maryland; ³University of Tennessee

Discussant: Brian Henderson (George Washington University)

Cao-1064-Winning At the Starting Line.pdf