Research themes
Our goals are to add value to the research community and to extend the research developed by this community beyond academia into policy and practice.
We aim to support our network of researchers by enhancing the resources available to them, providing forums through which to formalise and strengthen these networks, and facilitating engagement with investment practitioners making key decisions on long-horizon investing in asset management.
Alternative assets over the long term
This area explores the long-term performance and behaviour of alternative asset classes like real estate and commodities as well as collectable assets like art, wine and coins.
Biodiversity & natural resource finance
This area explores how capital markets, financial innovation, and investor engagement can be harnessed to protect ecosystems, value nature, and close the investment gap needed to sustain biodiversity.
Corporate voting
This research theme explores how shareholder and creditor voting power is priced, traded, and exercised—and how these mechanisms influence corporate governance structures, firm value and overall market efficiency.
Financial history
This covers 18th century ‘structured finance’ and currency speculation in the Middle Ages, to stock market performance in the 20th and 21st centuries as well as an overview of Economist and investor John Maynard Keynes.
Foreign Exchange Markets
This area explores the macroeconomic forces, market structures, and investor behaviours that shape currency dynamics in global financial markets, including their impact on exchange rate movements, risk premia, and investment opportunities. It also examines large moves in the FX market, providing insights into periods of heightened volatility and pricing discontinuities.
Investing over the long term
This area explores traditional investment themes like asset allocation, governance, risk and return, but with a research focus on how these relate to investors with a long investment horizon.
Sustainability and responsible ownership
Our academic research in this area advances understanding of how sustainability-related risks and opportunities influence investment decision-making, portfolio construction, and company performance. This work examines how investors use stewardship, voting, and collaborative engagement to shape corporate behaviour, promote transparency, and strengthen sustainability practices.
CEAM awards and recognition
Research awards are an excellent way to identify and promote high quality research globally in areas relevant to long-horizon investors. Priority is given to research excellence, novel insights and applicability to asset management, and to the researchers who have received their doctorates within the last 5 years.
A research paper that examines the automatic liquidation of option positions by brokerage platforms such as Robinhood won the Best Paper award at the 2026 Consortium on Asset Management in Madrid, supported by the Centre for Endowment Asset Management (CEAM) at Cambridge Judge Business School.
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Honour for research on investor engagement
Paper by academics at the Centre for Endowment Asset Management at Cambridge Judge Business School is awarded Honourable Mention in the prestigious Moskowitz Prize for outstanding research on sustainable and responsible investing.
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Foreign exchange markets symposium hosted by Cambridge Judge
Cambridge Judge Business School hosted scholars and practitioners involved in foreign exchange issues at the 2025 Symposium on Foreign Exchange Markets, which covered such topics as FX liquidity, risk management, central bank interventions and the impact of AI and digital currencies on currency markets.