The Kroner Center for Financial Research (KCFR, formerly known as Pacific Center for Asset Management (PCAM)) at the University of California San Diego was founded in 2019 with the mission to improve the dialogue between major asset owners around the world—including sovereign wealth funds, pension funds, foundations and their beneficiaries—and the academic community in economics and finance. With the input of members of a CIO Advisory Council and an Academic Advisory Council, we seek to identify topics that are under-researched, but of high importance in asset management, and invite proposals for independent academic research on them. Benefits to academic researchers is financial support for relevant new research, access to new data sets and tools shared by member asset owners/CIOs, and a venue to present new research, to network with, and to gain feedback from industry experts.

This year we identified the following topics:

• Exploring alternative asset classes of private equity, infrastructure, and real estate for asset owners:
• Scenario planning systems for risk management:
• Challenging conventional wisdom on how pension fund organization impacts fund performance:

Proposals should be no longer than 5 pages and should describe the research idea, expected methodology to be employed, and data requirements. If a proposal is related to an existing working paper or publication by the submitter, then these are also welcome as part of the submission. Principal and co-investigators should submit updated CVs.

The KCFR can provide summer support for faculty, support for research assistants, assistance in procuring data sets, and expenses for attending Center meetings together with members of the CIO Advisory Council, Academic Advisory Council, and Industry Advisory Council.

To submit a proposal please send your submission by November 1, 2022 to Joe Sturtevant at jsturtevant@ucsd.edu. The expectation is that the proposal selection process will conclude with authors informed of a decision by December 15, 2022.

For details, please go to: https://rady.ucsd.edu/why/centers/kroner/about.html