Scientific Beta

May 2020 marks two years since the European Commission launched the EU Action Plan for Financing Sustainable Growth. This webinar, featuring the participation of Frédéric Ducoulombier, ESG Director at Scientific Beta, will explore the EU’s major works around green and sustainable benchmarks, including Climate Transition Benchmarks, Paris-Aligned Benchmarks and ESG disclosure for all investment indices.

Frédéric Ducoulombier, ESG Director at Scientific Beta, will be speaking at a webinar on 13 May, 2020 at 14:00 BST hosted by Responsible Investor.

The webinar entitled "EU Action Plan Spring Series #2: Green and sustainable benchmarks", moderated by Hugh Wheelan, Co-Founder and Joint Managing Director of Responsible Investor, is part of a new webinar series dedicated to the investment implications of the European Commission’s Sustainable Finance Action Plan. 

May 2020 marks two years since the European Commission launched the EU Action Plan for Financing Sustainable Growth. This second webinar of the EU Action Plan webinar series will explore the EU’s major works around green and sustainable benchmarks, including Climate Transition Benchmarks, Paris-Aligned Benchmarks and ESG disclosure for all investment indices.

The webinar series is intended to fill the knowledge gap in financial markets with updates about the Action Plan and the European Green Deal proposed in late 2019. Through the series of three webinars, Responsible Investor will look at the practical implications for investors and examine how green/sustainable finance policy in Europe will impact decision-making of global investors.

Frédéric Ducoulombier is ESG Director at Scientific Beta. From 2015 to 2019, he was in charge of risk and compliance for Scientific Beta having previously served EDHEC Business School’s risk and investment management research centre for ten years as the founding director of EDHEC Risk Institute’s executive education arm and of EDHEC Risk Institute–Asia. At EDHEC Business School, he also taught economics and finance, managed graduate programmes and served as Deputy Associate Dean of Graduate Studies and Deputy Associate Dean of Research and Development. His research and advocacy work has focused on the purported risks of exchange traded funds, the governance and transparency of financial indices, non-financial risks in the fund management industry, smart beta and factor investing and the integration of environmental, social and governance criteria into investment. He was a member of the Consultative Working Group of the European Securities Markets Authority’s Financial Innovation Standing Committee from February 2015 to January 2017. He holds a master’s in management from IESEG School of Management, a graduate certificate in East Asian Studies from a University of Montréal/McGill University program, and is a Chartered Alternative Investment Analyst® designee.