As you probably know if you are a regular reader, The Institute for Quantitative Research in Finance” (or Q-Group for short) is one of the world’s foremost communities of quant rock-stars from the academic and practitioner communities.  In his video interview for the American Finance Association’s “History of Finance” project, William Sharpe tells of how he was actually at a Q-Group annual seminar when he learned of his Nobel Prize.

Well, no one won a Nobel Prize at last spring’s meeting.  But the 17 pages of session summaries, now available here, are well worth a read.  Here is a selection of what you’ll find:

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