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EDHEC-Risk Institute welcomes 5 distinguished new members to its international advisory board“(…) EDHEC-Risk Institute is pleased to announce that five members have joined its international advisory board, which brings together distinguished scholars, representatives of regulatory bodies as well as senior executives from business partners and other leading institutions. The role of the international advisory board is to validate the relevance and goals of the research programme proposals presented by the institute’s management and to evaluate research outcomes with respect to their potential impact on industry practices. (…)” Copyright Financial Investigator Publishers See more People moves“(…) EDHEC-Risk Institute – Three pension fund executives have joined the institute’s international advisory board: Jayne Atkinson, chief investment officer of Unilever UK Pension Fund, Takashi Yamashita, director, investment strategy at Japan’s Government Pension Investment Fund, and Brnic Van Wyk, head of asset/liability management in the investments division of Australian superannuation fund, QSuper. Stéphane Monier, head of private client investments at Lombard Odier, and Lisa Shalett, head of investment and portfolio solutions at Morgan Stanley Wealth Management, also joined the 37-strong advisory board. It is chaired by Mark Fawcett, CIO of the trustee body running the UK master trust NEST. (…)” Copyright IPE International Publishers Limited See more Financial research institute adds five members to advisory board“(…) Nice-headquartered financial research EDHEC-Risk Institute has appointed five members to its international advisory board. The 37-member strong board has welcomed Jayne Atkinson, chief investment officer of Unilever UK Pension Fund, Stéphane Monier, head of Private Client Investments at Lombard Odier, Lisa Shalett, head of Investment and Portfolio Solutions at Morgan Stanley Wealth Management, Brnic Van Wyk, head of Asset/Liability Management, Investments Division at QSuper and Takashi Yamashita, director, investment Strategy at the Japanese Government Pension Investment Fund (GPIF). See more Asia warms up to new ETF offerings“(…) Technology has enabled the development and commoditization of factor investing, or smart beta. But choosing the right strategy is also fraught with perils, as products are often marketed on the basis of simulated past performance. A result of factor-mining or model-mining, their performance may not materialize after the product is launched. “You need to rely on empirical evidence and multiple studies showing that factors have outperformed in the past,” says Frederic Ducoulombier, founding director at EDHEC Risk Institute-Asia. While selecting the right factors, investors need to look for economic rationale justifying the model. “[They need to] make sure that there’s a good story.” (…)” Copyright Asset Publishing and Research Limited See more Third edition of Yale SOM-EDHEC-Risk Certificate in Risk and Investment Management to commence January 2017”“(…) The third edition of the Yale School of Management (SOM)-EDHEC-Risk Institute Executive Seminar series will be commencing in January 2017. A series of seminars focused on Advanced Risk and Investment Management, with a program designed by Lionel Martellini, Professor of Finance, EDHEC Business School and Director of EDHEC-Risk Institute and Will Goetzmann, Edwin J Beinecke Professor of Finance and Management Studies, Director of the International Center for Finance, Yale School of Management, will be held in New Haven and London. (…)” Copyright GFM Limited See more