We welcome you to join us at our next Desayuno AQR in Madrid, in collaboration with Universidad Pontificia Comillas' Asset Management Chair.

During this breakfast, our plan is to unveil the mysticism around systematic strategies as well as to share the latest news from our end. We will start showing the similarities between (quant) investing and sports, to be followed by looking at AQR’s stock selection model (to show that quant investing can be a crystal box), and we will end with an update on our house and strategies.

Demystifying Systematic Investing

• 9h30-10h– Registration and Welcome Breakfast

• 10h-10h45 – Systematic Investing through the Lense of Sports (Toby Moskowitz)

• 10h45-11h30 – Clarifying the “black box” of systematic stock strategies (Charles Fattouche)

• 11h30-12h –AQR update (Jorge Fdez.-Cuervo)

¿Por qué es importante comunicar lo que se investiga? ¿Qué papel juegan los medios de comunicación para darlo a conocer? ¿Por qué es una pieza esencial para la universidad y para los investigadores? ¿Hay que tener miedo a los periodistas? ¿Cuál es la mejor manera de afrontar una entrevista?

El Servicio de Comunicación organiza este Encuentro de Comunicación para investigadores en las que se dará respuesta a todas esas preguntas y a muchas más. Conoce cómo funcionamos en el Servicio de Comunicación, cómo se gestiona la relación de la universidad con los medios y cómo transferir mejor el conocimiento a través de los periodistas. Contaremos con la presencia de The Conversation, una plataforma de artículos de divulgación con la que Comillas colabora desde hace unos años y que permite dar una enorme visibilidad pública a los resultados de investigación de la universidad.

Encuentro de Comunicación con investigadores del IIT

Viernes, 9 de enero de 2026 – Auditorio Rey Francisco – 10:00 a 13:30

9:45. Recepción

10:00. Bienvenida de Lola Carrillo

10:10. La comunicación en Comillas. Quiénes somos y cómo funcionamos. Flujo comunicativo entre investigadores y comunicación. Por qué son importantes los medios. Tipo de colaboraciones en prensa.

Lucía Tornero
Juan Manuel Daganzo

10:30 - 11:15. La importancia de los artículos de prensa. Rafael Serralde (The Conversation). Cómo escribir un artículo. Del paper al artículo de divulgación. Cómo funciona la plataforma. Ventajas de publicar en The Conversation. Datos de la universidad en Conversation.

Eva Catalán. Editora de Educación de The Conversation

11:15 -11:30. Clausura

The training is part of the project ‘EU Charter of Fundamental rights: Awareness raising and Instruments to promote a culture of Rights’ (FAIR). This project is led by the Chair of Refugees and Forced Migrants within the University Institute of Migration Studies (IUEM) of the Comillas Pontifical University and co-funded by the European Union, through the CERV programme.

The aim of the project is to raise awareness and promote the use of the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights in EU Member States, through understanding the obstacles to the use of the Charter at national level, as well as good practices in its application. We assessed awareness and use of the Charter through an online survey, two focus groups with representatives of civil society and practitioners, and a national seminar. These phases have been carried out in all countries of the Consortium: Spain, Portugal, Italy, Greece, Cyprus, Bulgaria, Belgium, Croatia and Slovenia. Due to the fact that the previous phases of the project have revealed a great lack of knowledge about the use of the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union by the administration of justice and various human rights defenders, it is proposed to carry out specific training aimed at these agents. This initiative aims to strengthen their competences and ensure a more effective application of the principles and rights enshrined in the Charter, thus promoting greater protection and respect for fundamental rights in the exercise of their functions. 

Agenda: 

Opening by FAIR project members (10:00h-10:10h)

Adam Dubin: Assistant Professor of Law & Director of the Masters in Internacional and European Business Law at Universidad Pontificia Comillas

Raquel Verdasco: PhD Candidate at the Chair on Refugees and Forced Migrants (Universidad Pontificia Comillas).

Training on the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union (10:10h - 12:00h)

Ignacio Ulloa (10:20h-12:00h) : has been a Judge at the General Court of the European Union (2013-2019). He currently heads the cabinet of the President of the Spanish Constitutional Court. A career prosecutor and judge, he has also been Secretary of State for Security. At the European level, his work as Deputy Director of the European Union Integrated Rule of Law Mission for Iraq (EUJUST LEX) stands out. He has also been an expert in the field of rule of law and security sector reform for the Council of the European Union and a project auditor in the field of criminal justice and fundamental rights for the European Commission. A graduate in law from the Complutense University of Madrid, he was a lawyer at the Constitutional Court. He is a regular guest lecturer and speaker at national and international specialised forums on matters related to European jurisdiction.