It's here! Announcing the launch of EDHEC-Risk’s newly refreshed website

Written on 21 Dec 2020.

EDHEC-Risk is pleased to announce the launch of its refreshed website, dedicated to investment professionals who are looking for cutting-edge investment research and industry practices.

Created in 2001, EDHEC-Risk Institute has become the premier academic centre for industry-relevant financial research.

Through our multi-faceted programmes of research, outreach, education and industry partnerships, our ambition is to support industry players, both asset owners and asset managers, in their efforts to transition towards a novel, welfare-improving, investment management paradigm.

In the fast-evolving environment facing the investment industry, we thought it was about time our research centre’s website reflected our ambitions, and we have spent the past few weeks developing a brand new homepage that focuses on our two main areas of expertise: retirement investing and sustainable investing, to explore interrelated aspects of investment management and reflecting our motto #MakingFinanceUsefulAgain.

Retirement Investing

EDHEC-Risk Institute runs a strategic research programme on retirement solutions.

The available investment products distributed by asset managers or insurance companies

hardly provide a satisfying response to the needs of investors and households in retirement.

Academia can provide new insights into how best to design improved retirement solutions

with a focus on replacement income.

Sustainable Investing

As part of our efforts to help investors and asset managers adequately deal with these new risk factors,

EDHEC-Risk Institute has launched an ambitious programme on sustainable investing that will explore

the impact of climate change on asset prices and examine the measurement and management of

climate-related risks in investors’ portfolios:

1. Impact on Climate Change of Financing and Investment Decisions – Leading expert Gianfranco Gianfrate

2. Impact of Climate Change on Asset Prices and Risk Management – Leading expert Riccardo Rebonato

Risk Premia Harvesting

But none of this expertise would have been possible without our extensive past research on Risk Premia Harvesting, a new section available on our website in the Knowledge Centre section, which offers insightful research (publication, indices, press articles) covering the following asset classes:

* Equity

* Fixed Income

* Real Estate

* Infrastructure

* Hedge Funds

* Commodities

* Multi-Assets

Our publications library now has 3 different sections:

Academic Publications: the Institute systematically seeks to validate the academic quality of its research through publications in leading journals.
EDHEC-Risk Publications: to ensure that our financial research corresponds to the needs of the corporate world, we present our publications in such a way as to render the research conclusions as accessible as possible to finance professionals, by including clearly delineated introductions, conclusions and an executive summary.
Industry Publications: in this section, we provide an overview of news concerning the investment management industry in the form of a digest of recent issues in the media. We mainly present an overview of news that is being discussed across a broad number of industry publications. In addition, we cover a selection of themes which have caught our interest and on which we have commented.

We hope that you will enjoy browsing our updated website. Stay tuned: more research, outreach and education initiatives are forthcoming.

We value your feedback, please let us know what you think by email at [email protected]

About EDHEC

Operating from campuses in Lille, Nice, Paris, London and Singapore, EDHEC is one of the world’s top 15 business schools. Fully international and directly connected to the business world, EDHEC commands a strong reputation for research excellence and the ability to train entrepreneurs and managers capable of breaking new ground. EDHEC functions as a genuine laboratory of ideas and produces innovative solutions valued by businesses. The School’s teaching is inspired by its research work and a focus on “learning by doing”, all with the aim of equipping people with the skills to succeed in business.

About EDHEC-Risk Climate Impact Institute

Marking the priority assigned by the School to sustainability issues and building on its research programmes exploring the relationships between climate change and finance, EDHEC-Risk Institute became EDHEC-Risk Climate Impact Institute in October 2022. The Institute's mission is to help private and public decision-makers manage climate-related financial risks and make the best use of the financial tools available to transition to low-emission and climate-resilient economies. The Institute’s research programmes explore the relationships between climate change and finance and our key ambition is to become a leading academic reference point for long-term investors, helping them to manage the asset-pricing implications of climate change as well as mitigation and adaptation efforts.