2019 Best Paper Award Winners

Best Paper in Behavioral Finance – Sponsored by CFP^® Board of Standards
Does Willingness to Take Risk Mediate the Role of Financial Planner when Clients Make Portfolio Allocation Decisions

Danah Jeong, University of Georgia

Best Paper in Investments – Sponsored by PlanPlus GlobalThe Historical Record on Active vs. Passive Mutual Fund Performance

David Nanigian, California State University, Fullerton

2019 Travel Award Winners

Travel Awards – Sponsored by HSBC

Michelle Cull, Western Sydney University
     for work published in Financial Planning Research Journal

L. Douglas Smith, University of Missouri, St. Louis
     for work published in Financial Services Review

NOTE: Due to COVID, Travel Awards were announced in 2019 then ceased from 2020 to 2022 due to the Global Pandemic. Since then, because of growing concerns about travel impact, AFS has decided not to continue with travel awards but to focus on hybrid/virtual attendance for both presenters and attendees of the annual conference.