THE LATEST
Bob Whaley:
2024 Financial Engineer of the Year
Our fearless leader, Robert E. Whaley, was selected as the recipient of the 2024 IAQF/Northfield Financial Engineer of the Year Award. The honor was announced in a January press release.
More recently, Bob celebrated at an in-person award dinner on Thursday, May 22, 2025 at The Yale Club in New York City, NY along with dear family, friends, and colleagues. The FMRC was grateful to be a sponsor of the event. See photos here.
2025 Four Corners/FMRC
Conference on Indexing
The FMRC hosted its annual conference in partnership with the Four Corners Center for Research on Index Investments May 4-5, 2025 at Owen Graduate School of Management in Nashville, TN.
Check out conference photos here.
Official newsletter forthcoming.
Financial Markets: Past, Present, & Future
On April 12, 2024, the FMRC hosted its first conference since 2018 at Owen Graduate School of Management in Nashville, TN. With gracious sponsorships from BOX Exchange, Cboe Global Markets, and Nasdaq, the conference paid homage to finance's brightest minds.
Explore our 2020s Conferences page to view the full agenda, speaker lineup, and newsletter. See photos here.
Industry Voices:
An Interview with Robert Whaley
Professor Whaley delves into his research that led to the 1993 creation of the CBOE Market Volatility Index ("VIX") for the Chicago Board of Options Exchange, exploring how it is often misunderstood by those that could benefit from its insights the very most. He ponders the future of the VIX, touching on how it will impact decision making moving forward and whether it is as widely follows by investors as it was in the 1990s.
Watch the interview presented by Portfolio Management Research here.
FMRC in the PRESS
