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Dec 2025: My paper “ESG thematic bonds in emerging markets: Risk, uncertainty, and ambiguity” is accepted for publication in European Financial Management. Winner of the runner up paper prize at the World Finance & Banking Symposium in Brno (Czech Republic).

Oct 2025: My paper “The Risk and Reward of Investing” has been accepted for publication in Journal of International Money and Finance. Short summary video in English, Mandarin (Sichuan dialect, Taiwan dialect), Spanish, Dutch (Belgium dialect), German, Norwegian, Korean, and Arabic.

Jan 2026: Guest lecture (online) about the asset management industry at Warwick Business School.

Nov 2025: Guest lecture (on-line) on quantitative equity investing at University of Vaasa in Finland.

Sep 2025: Presentation of my paper “Does excluding sin stocks cost performance?” at a seminar organized by the Norwegian forum for responsible and sustainable investments (Norsif) in Oslo. Short summary video in English, Dutch, and Chinese.

Sep 2025: Presentation of my paper “Individual pension risk preference elicitation and collective asset allocation with heterogeneity” at the European Pension Fund Investment Forum (EPFIF) Switzerland conference in Bern. Short summary video in English, Dutch, and Chinese.

Aug 2025: My paper “Exploring emerging markets debt: Bond voyage?” is published in Journal of Asset Management. Short summary video in English, Dutch, Mandarin, Italian, Spanish and Portuguese.

Jul 2025: I present my working paper “Settling the carbon premium debate” at the Accounting and Accountability for Climate Change in Vaasa (Finland) on 11/12 August.

Jun 2025: My research “Empirical Evidence on the Ownership and Liquidity of Real Estate Tokens” has been republished in the book Blockchain, Crypto Assets, and Financial Innovation edited by Kou, Li, Zhang, Zhao, and Zhuo.

May 2025: Journal of Portfolio Management published “Interview with Laurens Swinkels of Robeco“. You can watch the short video in English, Dutch, Chinese, Spanish, French, German, Norwegian, and Italian.

Feb 2025: My advice for the Korean pension reform in one of their leading newspapers can be found here (in Korean).

Feb 2025: I assumed the role of Associate Editor at the Emerging Markets Review

Feb 2025: My research on real estate tokenization featured in a news article of Outlier Media and was covered by Erasmus School of Economics here.

Jan 2025: I won the Graham & Dodd Scroll Award for my publication in 2024 in the Financial Analysts Journal: Empirical evidence on the stock-bond correlation

Jan 2025: Guest lecture (online) about the asset management industry at Warwick Business School

Jan 2025: Teaching my Finance course for econometrics students at Erasmus University in Rotterdam

Dec 2024: My paper “Media-based climate risks and the international corporate bond market” has been accepted for publication in the Journal of International Money and Finance

Nov 2024: Guest lecture (on-line) on quantitative equity investing at University of Vaasa in Finland

Nov 2024: Article “Is firm-level political risk priced in the corporate bond market?” published in Journal of Empirical Finance

Oct 2024: Guest lecture on asset allocation at BI Norwegian Business School in Norway

Aug 2024: New working paper “Corporate Sustainability and Scandals” online

Jul 2024: Presented my research on the 30th Multinational Finance Society Annual Conference at University of Vaasa in Finland.