Postdoc Bram van der Kroft wins best paper at GRASFI

Postdoctoral Researcher Bram van der Kroft won the Best Paper Award at GRASFI 2026 for "Investor Democracy," co-authored with Rob Bauer, Emmeline Cooper, PhD, and Paul Smeets. The paper introduces a novel elicitation method for assessing social preferences using a mini-maxi-public approach and demonstrates that pension participants shift from non-consequentialist to consequentialist preferences when better informed—findings with real implications for pension investment decisions.

August 28, 2026

2026 Annual Conference, Annual Conference, GRASFI News

GRASFI’s 9th Annual conference, hosted at HEC Liege in Belgium, concluded on 26th August 2026. This year’s BNP Paribas Asset Management Best Paper Prize was awarded to “Investor Democracy” by Rob Bauer (Maastricht University), Emmeline Cooper (Cranfield University), Bram van der Kroft (MIT), and Paul Smeets (University of Amsterdam).