End of October, our colleagues Constantin Schneider and Paul Friedrich Hark attended the 2025 Financial Management Association (FMA) Annual Meeting in Vancouver, Canada – the world’s largest finance conference. During the conference both PhD candidates presented their latest research papers titled “Signals in the Noise: Global Valuation Effects of Dividends and Share Repurchases” and “The 52-Week High and Corporate Announcements”. Beyond the enriching academic exchange, the conference offered the opportunity to join a comedy show in downtown Vancouver.

End of September, our colleague Paul Friedrich Hark traveled to Tilburg to present the working paper “The 52-Week High and Corporate Announcement Returns”, which is joined work with Dr. Nils Lohmeier, Dr.Pascal Büsing, and Prof. Dr. Hannes Mohrschladt, at the Brown Bag Seminar of the Finance Department at the Tilburg School of Economics and Management. The seminar offered valuable comments and feedback for the project to our researchers. Thank you very much to Thomas Gruenthaler for the invitation and to Marc Stam for the organization of the seminar.

This year’s annual meeting of the “Deutsche Gesellschaft für Finanzwirtschaft” (DGF) took place in the City of Hagen, organized and hosted by Fernuniversität Hagen. Christoph Schneider, Elissa Ana Maria Iorgulescu, Jan Harren, Stefan Menze, Leonie Wieneke, and Leander Gayda from the Finance Center Münster presented their work on a huge variety of finance topics. Our FCM team enjoyed the fruitful discussions and was delighted to make new contacts, meet up with friends, and intensify research collaborations.