Scientific Beta
Frédéric Ducoulombier, Business Development Director Asia ex-Japan and the Middle East at ERI Scientific Beta, will be speaking on the topic "From Smart Beta to Smart Allocation: New Approaches to Defensive Equity Investing for Insurers" at the 4th Asia Investment Management Summit for Insurance to be held in Hong Kong on 26-27 November, 2015.
Frédéric Ducoulombier, Business Development Director Asia ex-Japan and the Middle East at ERI Scientific Beta, will be speaking on the topic "From Smart Beta to Smart Allocation: New Approaches to Defensive Equity Investing for Insurers" at the 4th Asia Investment Management Summit for Insurance to be held in Hong Kong on 26-27 November, 2015.
His presentation will examine the following topics:
- Understanding the design faults and limitations of traditional defensive equity strategies
- Bringing diversification to minimum and low volatility investing
- Designing highly defensive equity solutions with smart factor indices
- Improving the upside capture of defensive strategies
The conference, organised by Asia Insurance Review, aims to provide insurance and reinsurance companies with unrivalled insights into how to invest their money in the year, share expert knowledge and analysis on where growth will come from in 2016 and find out which key factors are most likely to shape investment choices.
Frédéric Ducoulombier is the founding director of EDHEC Risk Institute-Asia and an associate professor of finance at EDHEC Business School. He also serves on the Consultative Working Group of the Financial Innovation Standing Committee established by the European Securities and Markets Authority. He has most recently co-authored EDHEC-Risk Institute's influential contributions to international regulatory consultations on ETFs, indices and benchmarks as well as publications on the purported risks of ETFs, non-financial risks in fund management, and the index transparency and governance requirements of institutional investors. He also contributed to reviews of the asset allocation and portfolio construction practices of sovereign investors and pension funds. Prior to establishing the Asian operations of EDHEC-Risk Institute, he founded and developed the Institute's executive education operations and initiated and developed its PhD in Finance programme. Since April 2015, he heads business development for the Institute's index provision venture, ERI Scientific Beta, in the Middle-East and Asia Pacific ex Japan.