What is IMEF?

 

The Instituto Mexicano de Ejecutivos de Finanzas (IMEF), A. C., founded on September 21st, 1961, is the organization that groups the highest financial executives of the most important companies in the country. Its vision is to be the leading organization to associate, develop and represent finance professionals, with an integral approach and social commitment; its mission is to promote the integral development of finance professionals, exercising leadership in all the activities it performs.

The IMEF created the Research Foundation, whose vision is to be the leading institution to promote, generate and disseminate quality research for the financial management of organizations. To achieve its objectives, the Foundation has four pillars:

I. IMEF-EY International Financial Research Prize

With the firm conviction of incentivizing the participation of researchers in the financial field, the IMEF Research Foundation instituted the National Financial Research Prize in 1984, which has been carried out successfully for thirty years.

This year, the XXXV IMEF-EY International Financial Research Prize has a price pool of MXN$500,000 plus significant additional benefits. For the academic, professional and student community, it represents an opportunity to pose challenges, investigate new scenarios and seek innovating answers in the fields of finance, business, administration, accounting and economics in Mexico, both on the macro horizon and at the business level; the bases for the award can be consulted at www.imef.org.mx.

II. FIMEF Intenational Financial Research Conference

In order to disseminate the advances of financial research in our country and contribute to the research-university-company-government connections on relevant research subjects that support the economic and social development of countries, their companies and institutions, and promote the work and exchange of experiences between researchers at a global level, the IMEF Research Foundation brought to life the IMEF Financial Research Congress. This was sponsored by the Mexican Banking Association, Mexican Stock Exchange, Mexican Association of Insurance Companies, Mexican Association of Securities Intermediaries, Mexican Pension Fund Administrator Association, Council for the Accreditation of Teaching Accounting and Administration and PwC, and the support of higher education institutions: EGADE Business School, Escuela Bancaria y Comercial, Instituto Politécnico Nacional, Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México, Tecnológico de Monterrey Campus Mexico City and Campus Mexico State, Universidad Autónoma de Guadalajara, Universidad Autónoma del Estado de Hidalgo, Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana, Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla, Universidad del Valle de México, Universidad Iberoamericana, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México and Universidad Panamericana.

Organized by The IMEF Research Foundation since 2011, the congress is an ideal space to present financial findings and trends, generate a dialogue of feedback, support researchers, update financial professionals, and encourage students in related areas. 

In 2019, the IX FIMEF International Financial Research Conference will take place at the Universidad Marista in Mérica, Yucatán, México on 29th and 30th of August. A lunch session and a cultural event will be held in addition to the scheduled Work Tables: Corporate Finance, Financial and Stock Markets, Risk Management, Derivatives Market, Insurance and Bonding, International Finance, Social Finance, Banking and Credit, Pensions and Other topics of financial relevance, keynote speeches. 

III. Books edited by IMEF Research Foundation.

With the support of specialists in business, finance, administration, accounting, and ethics, the IMEF Research Foundation shows its leadership by providing the financial and business community with knowledge tools with high technical content and of immediate practical application, which support the management of companies by meeting their own social commitments. In this manner, in recent years, the IMEF Editorial Fund has nineteen titles that it makes available to the financial and business community. Details on these titles can be found at: www.imef.org.mx

IV. The Mexican Journal of Economics and Finance (REMEF)

Wanting to offer a vehicle that will showcase the recent advances in research carried out by academics and professionals of the highest level on topics related to finance, economics and entrepreneurial activity, the IMEF Research Foundation promotes the Revista Mexicana de Economía y Finanzas REMEF in its New Era. Details can be found at: www.remef.org.mx