Call for Working Papers 2027 Jack Treynor Prize

Awarded by The Institute for Quantitative Research in Finance (Q Group), the Jack Treynor Prize recognizes superior academic working papers with potential applications in the fields of investment management and financial markets. Q Group awards prizes for prepublication working papers produced by postdoctoral researchers employed full-time by academic institutions.

During August through October 2026, the Q Group Research Committee will review and select three papers to recognize for the Jack Treynor Prize. Winners of the prize will be invited to attend the organization’s Spring 2027 conference, where we will formally recognize them and allow them to discuss their research with Q Group members. Q Group will provide funding for travel and accommodations for one author of each winning prize. Winners will be announced in the Journal of Portfolio Management and on the Q Group website. In addition, Q Group may invite the author(s) to present their paper at the Spring conference or at a future conference. When published, winning papers must acknowledge the Q Group Jack Treynor Prize in their introductory footnotes.

Application Procedure

Authors interested in competing for a Q Group Jack Treynor Prize should submit no more than one working paper per author in PDF format by Friday, July 17, 2026. The first page of your submission must include a short statement that describes your main results and identifies their relevance to the Q Group mission—advancement of the global practice of investment management—and relevance to the work of organization members. We will not consider submissions without this statement.

If a coauthor has submitted a paper of yours, you may submit another paper. However, we will consider only one version of a paper for the Prize. The Research Committee identifies two versions of a paper as the same paper if their intended primary innovation is the same, regardless of any changes in authorship, title, methodology, or data. If you or a coauthor previously submitted your paper, do not resubmit it, regardless of how much it has changed or who submitted it. Please ensure that you and your coauthors submit your paper only once.

The Q Group collects working papers submissions for the Prize through the ConfTool website. Please submit your papers via this link. Since ConfTool designed their system primarily to collect submissions to conferences, not to prize competitions, some language that you see may be slightly inappropriate for our prize competition.

Place the short statement described above on the first page of your submission. You also must copy it into the Abstract Box on the submission form. Finally, please carefully classify your contribution to the field using the provided ConfTool categories.

You may direct further questions to Larry Harris at research@q-group.org or (323) 244-1154.