| Year | Location | President | Distinguished Speaker | ||
| 2024 | Honolulu, HI | Burton Hollifield | Carnegie Mellon University | Kerry Back | Rice University |
| 2023 | San Francisco, CA | Christine Parlour | University of California-Berkeley | Bruno Biais | HEC |
| 2022 | Portland, OR | John Griffin | University of Texas at Austin | Andrew Karolyi | Cornell University |
| 2021 | Virtual 2.0 | Toni Whited | University of Michigan | Josef Zechner | Vienna University of Economics and Business |
| 2020 | Virtual | Andrew Karolyi | Cornell University | Antoinette Schoar | Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
| 2019 | Huntington Beach,CA | Ingrid M. Werner | Ohio State University | Raghuram Rajan | University of Chicago |
| 2018 | Coronado,CA | Jiang Wang | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Robert C. Merton | Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
| 2017 | Whistler,Canada | Lubos Pastor | University of Chicago | Robert Stambaugh | University of Pennsylvania |
| 2016 | Park City, Utah | Laura Starks | University of Texas-Austin | Peter DeMarzo | Stanford University |
| 2015 | Seattle, Washington | Josef Zechner | WU Vienna University of Economics and Business | Francis Longstaff | University of California-Los Angeles |
| 2014 | Monterey Bay, California | John Graham | Duke University | Stewart C. Myers | Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
| 2013 | Lake Tahoe, Nevada | Michael Fishman | Northwestern University | Darrell Duffie | Stanford University |
| 2012 | Las Vegas, Nevada | Francis Longstaff | University of California-Los Angeles | Campbell Harvey | Duke University |
| 2011 | Santa Fe, New Mexico | Peter DeMarzo | Stanford University | Maureen O’Hara | Cornell University |
| 2010 | Victoria, Canada | William Goetzmann | Yale University | Mark Grinblatt | University of California, Los Angeles |
| 2009 | San Diego, California | Artur Raviv | Northwestern University | Chester Spatt | Carnegie Mellon University |
| 2008 | Waikoloa, Hawaii | Campbell R. Harvey | Duke University | René M. Stulz | Ohio State University |
| 2007 | Big Sky, Montana | Sheridan Titman | University of Texas-Austin | John Y. Campbell | Harvard University |
| 2006 | Keystone, Colorado | Mark Grinblatt | University of California-Los Angeles | Douglas Diamond | University of Chicago |
| 2005 | Portland, Oregon | Ravi Jagannathan | Northwestern University | Douglas Breeden | Duke University |
| 2004 | Vancouver, Canada | René M. Stulz | Ohio State University | Michael C. Jensen | Harvard Business School |
| 2003 | Los Cabos, Mexico | Philip H. Dybvig | Washington University-St. Louis | Richard Kihlstrom | University of Pennsylvania |
| 2002 | Park City, Utah | Douglas W. Diamond | University of Chicago | Albert S. “Pete” Kyle | Duke University |
| 2001 | Tucson, Arizona | Wayne Ferson | University of Washington | Robert Shiller | Yale University |
| 2000 | Sun Valley, Idaho | Richard C. Green | Carnegie Mellon University | Kenneth Singleton | Stanford University |
| 1999 | Santa Monica, California | Franklin Allen | University of Pennsylvania | Andrei Shleifer | Harvard University |
| 1998 | Monterey, California | Maureen O’Hara | Cornell University | Milton Harris | University of Chicago |
| 1997 | San Diego, California | Michael J. Brennan | University of California-Los Angeles | Richard H. Thaler | University of Chicago |
| 1996 | Sunriver, Oregon | Chester S. Spatt | Carnegie Mellon University | Joseph Williams | University of British Columbia |
| 1995 | Aspen, Colorado | Milton Harris | University of Chicago | Kenneth French | Yale University |
| 1994 | Santa Fe, New Mexico | Kenneth Singleton | Stanford University | Mark Rubinstein | University of California, Berkeley |
| 1993 | Whistler, Canada |
Hans Stoll | Vanderbilt University | Alan Kraus | University of British Columbia |
| 1992 | San Francisco, California | Stephen Brown | New York University | Myron Scholes | Stanford University |
| 1991 | Grand Teton National Park, Wyoming (Jackson Lake) | Eduardo Schwartz | University of California-Los Angeles | Fischer Black | Goldman Sachs Assest Management |
| 1990 | Santa Barbara, California | Lemma Senbet | University of Maryland | Michael Brennan | University of California, Los Angeles |
| 1989 | Seattle, Washington | Alan Hess | University of Washington | William Sharpe | Stanford University |
| 1988 | Napa, California | Robert Litzenberger | University of Pennsylvania | Sanford Grossman | Princeton University |
| 1987 | San Diego, California | Gerald Bierwag | University of Arizona | Edward Kane | Ohio State University |
| 1986 | Colorado Springs, Colorado | Alan Kraus | University of British Columbia | Merton Miller | University of Chicago |
| 1985 | Scottsdale, Arizona | Seha Tinic | University of Texas-Austin | Robert Litzenberger | Stanford University |
| 1984 | Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada | Nils Hakansson | University of California-Berkeley | Richard Roll | University of California, Los Angeles |
| 1983 | Long Beach, California | Edward Dyl | University of Wyoming | Myron Scholes | University of Chicago & Stanford University |
| 1982 | Portland, Oregon | James Van Horne | Stanford University | Stephen Ross | Yale University |
| 1981 | Jackson Hole, Wyoming (Jackson Lake Lodge) | Charles D’Ambrosio | University of Washington | Eugene Fama | University of Chicago |
| 1980 | San Diego, California | Donald Farrar | University of Utah | Kenneth Arrow | Stanford University |
| 1979 | San Francisco, California | Guilford Babcock | University of Southern California | Nils Hakansson | University of California, Berkeley |
| 1978 | Honolulu, Oahu | David Pyle | University of California-Berkeley | Bruce MacLaury | President of the Brookings Institute |