The Individual Finance and Insurance Decisions (IFID)
Centre is proud to announce the second annual conference on Personal
Risk Management to be held at the Fields Institute (Toronto, Canada)
on Thursday November 21st, 2002. This one-day event is dedicated to
the topic of Personal Finance and Insurance Issues and will focus on
applying quantitative and rigorous financial techniques to the decisions
individuals face in their daily life.
The broad objectives of The IFID Centre are to disseminate and conduct
applied research in the growing field of financial risk management for
individuals. This includes the obvious areas of finance and insurance
as well as economics, actuarial science, taxation, operations research,
law, psychology, sociology and marketing as they pertain to helping
individual consumers make better financial decisions.
This conference is sponsored by The
Investor e.ducation Fund. The IEF was established by the Ontario
Securities Commission in 2000 to develop and support initiatives that
educate investors. The Fund is committed to narrowing the gap between
investment knowledge and investment activity.
For more information about The IFID Centre and a description of our
past activities please visit http://www.ifid.ca.
Call for Papers
Academics and practitioners who are interested in presenting research
at the conference are invited to submit a paper on the topic of Personal
Financial Risk Management prior to JUNE 15, 2002, to:
Prof. Moshe Milevsky, Executive Director
The IFID Centre at the Fields Institute
222 College Street, 2nd Floor
Toronto, Ontario, M5T 3J1, Canada
Tel: 416 348-9710 ext. 3010
or by email at: IFID@fields.utoronto.ca
The submissions will be reviewed by a scientific committee and decisions
will be made by the late summer. Note that speakers whose paper is accepted
for presentation at the conference will have their travel expenses and
local accommodations covered by The IFID
Centre.
Registration
The conference fee, which is heavily subsidised by our corporate sponsor
and is a minimal $55 CDN. ($1 CDN = $0.65 USD), which includes GST,
lecture notes and papers, a light lunch, coffee and snacks. For more
information about the conference registration, accommodations and travel
details to the Fields Institute, please contact Program Coordinator
at cim@fields.utoronto.ca.
The Fields Institute, 222 College Street, Toronto, Ontario, M5T 3J1
For accommodation resources, please see the Fields
Housing page
For more information please contact the conference organizer, Moshe
Milevsky, at the IFID Centre 416 348-9710 ext. 3010 or by email at:
IFID@fields.utoronto.ca
