Each year, GIWM provides financial support for academic research projects with expected impact in the field of wealth management. GIWM has the pleasure of announcing the three finalists of the GIWM call for projects 2020-2021 selected for funding by the GIWM Scientific Committee:

• Auh, Jun Kyung and Bai, Jennie, Cross-Asset Information Synergy in Mutual Fund Families (November 4, 2020). Georgetown McDonough School of Business Research Paper No. 3163135, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3163135 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3163135
• Johansson, Andreas and Sabbatucci, Riccardo and Tamoni, Andrea, Smart Beta Made Smart: Synthetic Risk Factors for Institutional and Retail Investors (May 5, 2020). Swedish House of Finance Research Paper No. 20-21, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3594064 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3594064
• Mitali, Shema F., Krueger, Philipp, Andrikogiannopoulou, Angie and Papakonstantinou, Filippos, Identifying Greenwashing among U.S. Active Mutual Funds (January 26, 2021) Geneva Finance Research Institute Research Paper

GIWM congratulates the finalists for their accomplishement. Their research projects are expected to be presented at the yearly GIWM research workshop to be held in the Fall 2022..