The 15th New Zealand Finance Meeting, the AUT Centre for Financial Research's annual academic finance conference and PhD Student Symposium, runs 14-16 December 2026 at Auckland University of Technology in Auckland, with keynote speaker Zacharias Sautner of the University of Zurich.
The 15th New Zealand Finance Meeting returns to Auckland from 14 to 16 December 2026, bringing finance academics to Auckland University of Technology for three days of research presentations and debate. The meeting runs alongside a PhD Student Symposium, and the AUT Centre for Financial Research says it welcomes submissions across all areas of finance.
The keynote address will be delivered by Zacharias Sautner, Professor of Sustainable Finance at the University of Zurich.
The meeting is organised by the AUT Centre for Financial Research (ACFR), based in AUT's Faculty of Business, Economics and Law. The centre runs the New Zealand Finance Meeting as its flagship annual conference, alongside events such as the Derivative Markets Conference and a regular research-seminar series. Now in its 15th edition, the NZFM is a long-running fixture on the academic finance calendar, and prior editions are indexed by independent bodies including the European Financial Management Association and overseas university research portals.
The event is aimed at finance researchers from New Zealand and abroad, together with doctoral students presenting through the dedicated PhD Student Symposium. According to the ACFR, the programme is built from submitted papers spanning the full breadth of finance, with best-paper awards supported by the New Zealand Superannuation Fund and CFA Society New Zealand. Selected papers are considered for journal publication following the meeting.
The meeting is held at Auckland University of Technology's City Campus in central Auckland. The ACFR notes the campus sits about a 10-minute walk from Britomart station in the CBD, placing delegates within easy reach of central-city hotels, dining and the waterfront. Auckland Airport is roughly 45 minutes from the university, with the organiser pointing delegates to the SkyDrive airport bus to the city or taxi and rideshare options for the airport transfer.
As an international academic conference that draws finance scholars to Auckland each December, the New Zealand Finance Meeting is a recurring driver of out-of-season visitor nights and campus-based conferencing in the CBD. Its 15-year continuity underlines AUT's standing as a host institution and the city's role as a base for New Zealand's research-conference sector.
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