We are pleased to announce that the 2009 Northern Finance Association Meetings will be held in central Canada’s picturesque wine region in Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ontario, a short drive from Niagara Falls. Niagara-on-the-Lake was recently designated as a National Historic Site. A short walk from the conference hotel is Fort George, a British fort which played a key role in the struggle for the Niagara Frontier during the War of 1812.

Distinguished Keynote Speakers

Andrew Lo is the Harris & Harris Group Professor at the MIT Sloan School of Management. He is a co-author of The Econometrics of Financial Markets and A Non-Random Walk Down Wall Street. He is currently an Associate Editor of the Annals of Economics and Finance, Financial Analysts Journal, the Journal of Portfolio Management, the Journal of Computational Finance, and the Review of Economics and Statistics.

Wayne Ferson is a Professor and Endowed Chair, at the Marshall School of Business, University of Southern California and Research Associate, National Bureau of Economic Research. He is the former editor of Journal of Empirical Finance and Review of Financial Studies. He is currently an Associate Editor of numerous journals including Journal of Empirical Finance, Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis , Journal of Financial Research , and Review of Financial Studies.
A copy of Wayne Ferson's paper related to his keynote speech is available here.

Conference Organizers and Host School

The conference was hosted by the Ivey Business School of the University of Western Ontario.

The conference organizers were Stephen Sapp and Steve Foerster

Registration Vounteers

Niagara-on-the-Lake	Queen's Landing	Winery	Fort George