Scientific Beta

Eric Shirbini, Global Research and Investment Solutions Director at ERI Scientific Beta, will be hosting an IPE webinar on the theme "Why have most smart beta and factor investing offerings underperformed over the past 18 months?", on 28 November, 2017 at 3.00pm GMT. 

Eric Shirbini, Global Research and Investment Solutions Director at ERI Scientific Beta, will be hosting a webinar on 28 November, 2017 at 3.00pm GMT, organised by IPE, on the theme "Why have most smart beta and factor investing offerings underperformed over the past 18 months?".

The webinar, moderated by Brendan Maton of IPE will include the following topics:

• Sources of smart beta performance
• Market beta: the glaring omission from smart beta and factor investing offerings
• Mismanagement of market beta: consequences for the conditionality of smart beta performance
• An all-weather beta one long-only strategy 

Eric Shirbini, PhD, is Global Research and Investment Solutions Director with ERI Scientific Beta. Prior to joining EDHEC-Risk Institute in 2011, Eric worked for close to twenty years a quantitative analyst for investment banks including UBS, BNP Paribas and Nomura International. During this time he worked on a diverse range of topics including multi-factor models, fundamental stock valuation, equity market indices, portfolio construction and portfolio trading. At Nomura International, he served as Director of Quantitative Research and at BNP Paribas, he managed a team of analysts who were responsible for the Global Equity Research Database. He holds a B.Sc. and a Ph.D. from University College London and an MBA from CASS Business School.