Dear colleague,     I am pleased to announce the 8th WU Gutmann Center Symposium on "Retirement and Asset Management" to be held at WU Vienna on August 19, 2015. Please find the Call for Papers below and here: http://www.wu.ac.at/gc/whatwedo/bridging/symposia/2015/callforpapers2015.pdf   It would be great if you submit a paper to the Symposium (in case you do research in this area) and/or forward the Call for Papers to colleagues who you feel would be interested in submitting a paper.   Many thanks and best regards from Vienna,   Alois ------------------------------------------------ Department of Finance, Accounting and Statistics WU (Vienna University of Economics and Business) www.wu.ac.at/~geyer ------------------------------------------------   CALL FOR PAPERS / CONFERENCE ANNOUNCEMENT   WU GUTMANN CENTER SYMPOSIUM 2015 RETIREMENT AND ASSET MANAGEMENT VIENNA AUGUST 19, 2015     The WU Gutmann Center for Portfolio Management is proud to announce its eighth symposium to be held at WU (Vienna University of Economics and Business), Austria. The general topic of the symposium is "Retirement and Asset Management". Papers submitted to the symposium can address related aspects such as the role of financial institutions, lifetime investment strategies, saving for future generations, the role of demographics, or financial literacy, provided they are sufficiently related to the general topic.      Note that the WU Gutmann Center Symposium 2015 will take place on the day before the 42nd Annual Meeting of the European Finance Association (EFA) (www.efa2015.org). Both conferences will take place on the new WU Campus (www.wu.ac.at/campus/en). The EFA Annual Meeting opens on August 19 in the evening, after the symposium has been concluded.          PAPER SUBMISSIONS:    The deadline for paper submissions is March 11, 2015 at midnight CET Central European Time (Austrian time). After this date, the submission system will be disabled automatically.      Before clicking the link below to enter the online submission system (ConfTool), please prepare an anonymous version of your paper (i.e. remove all identifying information). You can upload your paper after creating a ConfTool account. The paper must be in either Acrobat (*.pdf) or Microsoft Word 2010, 2011 or 2013 (*.docx) format.       Please note that the ConfTool database for the symposium is separate from the one for the EFA. Therefore you must create a separate account for this submission (although you may use the same username/password as on the EFA site, if you wish).       Link to paper submissions: https://www.conftool.com/WUGCS2015/       All submissions will be reviewed by a committee composed of members of the WU Gutmann Center's Academic Advisory Board and decisions will be announced by May 15, 2015. Submission and participation are free of charge. Accommodation and travel expenses (economy fare) of presenting authors will be covered by the WU Gutmann Center.      CONTACT WU Gutmann Center for Portfolio Management Sabina Krickl WU (Vienna University of Economics and Business) Welthandelsplatz 1, 1020 Wien (Vienna), Austria gutmann-center(a)wu.ac.at http://www.gutmann-center.at/