Geneva: Smart Risk, Stronger Alpha - Spring 2026

In an investment landscape shaped by rapid regime shifts, market concentration, and increasingly crowded strategies, generating durable alpha requires more than conviction - it requires smart risk.

Smart Risk, Stronger Alpha is an ongoing conference series designed for equity investors who want to move beyond headlines and intuition, and ground their decisions in robust data, empirical evidence, and practical risk insights.

Building on the success of our Winter edition, the Summer 2026 series will return to Paris, Geneva and Frankfurt, continuing the same overarching goal: to help investors better understand where risks truly come from, how they evolve across market regimes, and how they can be managed more deliberately to support stronger, more resilient alpha.

What to expect

This event series brings together investors and MSCI researchers for in-depth, practitioner-focused discussions on topics that matter now:

• Hidden concentration risks in seemingly diversified portfolios
• How factor behaviour changes across macro and market regimes
• The role of crowding as an implementation risk — and how it interacts with momentum, valuation and sentiment
• Using advanced datasets and risk models to stress-test portfolios, challenge assumptions, and refine execution

Sessions are designed to be insight-led and practical, combining research findings with concrete use cases relevant to both systematic and fundamentally driven investors.

Why attend

Whether you are a portfolio manager, risk manager, quantitative researcher, or allocator, Smart Risk, Stronger Alpha offers:

• Clear, evidence-based perspectives on today’s most pressing equity risks
• Direct access to MSCI’s latest research and thinking
• A forum to exchange views with peers facing similar investment challenges
• Early insight into how evolving risk tools and datasets can support better decision-making

Above all, the series aims to foster an ongoing dialogue - a community of practitioners committed to improving how risk is understood, measured, and ultimately transformed into alpha.