[3] Its initial purpose was to own and run a new academic journal, which was called the Review of Financial Studies (RFS).
It began publication in 1988 with 18 regular research articles spread out over 4 quarterly issues.
[12] The current editorial team is Itay Goldstein[13] (Executive Editor), Lauren Cohen, Ralph Koijen, Holger Mueller, Manju Puri, Philip Strahan, and Stijn Van Nieuwerburgh.
[16] The current editorial team is Jeffrey Pontiff[17] (Executive Editor), Hui Chen, Nikolai Roussanov, and Thierry Foucault.
[16] The current editorial team is Andrew Ellul [20] (Executive Editor), Isil Erel, Gregor Matvos, and Uday Rajan.
The inaugural Cavalcade in 2011 was hosted by the Ross School of Business at the University of Michigan with a program that contained 42 papers.
The 2019 Cavalcade North America was hosted by the Tepper School of Business at Carnegie Mellon University with a program that contained 135 papers.
The inaugural Cavalcade Asia-Pacific in 2017 was hosted by PBC School of Finance at Tsinghua University in Beijing, China.
The councilors are Renee Adams, Alon Brav, Allaudeen Hameed, Kai Li, Tarun Ramadorai, and Karin Thorburn.