Scientific Beta

Frédéric Ducoulombier, Business Development Director Asia ex-Japan and the Middle East at ERI Scientific Beta, has been invited to speak at the FT Investment Management Summit Asia held in Hong Kong on 18 June, 2015 in a session entitled "Beating the Market – Passive, Active or Rules Based Strategies?".

The summit brings together senior investors from across the region and internationally for informed and stimulating debate on investment strategies that can most effectively protect and grow the expanding capital base of Asia’s pension funds, sovereign wealth funds, life insurance companies, endowments and other large institutions.

Frédéric Ducoulombier will be participating as a panellist in the session entitled "Beating the Market – Passive, Active or Rules Based Strategies?" moderated by Kylie Wong, Managing Editor of Ignites Asia. High costs and the desire for greater yield are driving growing numbers of investors to reassess their allocations between passive and active strategies, with strategic beta approaches blurring the lines between the two. The session will examine the following questions:

In this new environment what does the future hold for active funds?
Are some markets more suited to passive investing than others?
Is now the right time for Asia-based investors to tap the smart beta market?
Can they achieve sufficient diversification of their smart beta investments?
Why are some institutions still skeptical about this strategy?

Frédéric Ducoulombier is Business Development Director, Asia ex-Japan and the Middle East with ERI Scientific Beta and is a member of the ERI Scientific Beta Executive Committee and Corporate Director of ERI Scientific Beta. He is also directly responsible for compliance, governance and transparency at ERI Scientific Beta. Frédéric Ducoulombier has spent much of his career at EDHEC and more particularly at EDHEC-Risk Institute, where he was in charge of EDHEC-Risk Executive Education and then EDHEC-Risk Institute—Asia.