Conference Supporters

Your conference registration supports a basic offering of lunch, dinner and coffee breaks, plus all the infrastructure necessary to run a conference, such as room rental and audio-visual equipment.

Several organizations have enhanced this basic offering in the following generous ways. We are very grateful for their support.

	The Haskayne School of Business at the University of Calgary has supplied the basic risk capital to allow us to run the conference, as well as staff, faculty and logistical support. In addition, the Haskayne School is sponsoring the Saturday banquet.
	The Toronto CFA Society is sponsoring two awards for the best papers on capital markets research.
	The Bank of Canada is sponsoring an award for the best paper on Canadian financial markets. It is also sponsoring our Saturday luncheon, by upgrading the meal quality.
	The Canadian Institute of Chartered Business Valuators is sponsoring an award for the best valuation research paper. It is also sponsoring the appearance of Michael Brennan as one of our keynote speakers.
	The International Journal of Managerial Finance is offering to have a special issue of papers presented at the conference. They are sponsoring an award from the list of papers selected for that special issue. The award will be adjudicated by their editorial board and presented at the NFA 2009 conference. In addition, they are sponsoring the appearance of Phil Dybvig as one of our keynote speakers and assisting in other support for both keynote speakers.
	The Canada Pension Plan Investment Board is sponsoring our Friday reception by enhancing the food choice.
	Direct Energy is sponsoring the Sunday breakfast by providing an enhanced meal.
	TransAlta is sponsoring the Saturday breakfast by providing an enhanced meal.
	Wharton Research Data Services is sponsoring an award for the empirical papers.
	The Northern Finance Association is sponsoring two awards for the best student papers.