Frédéric Ducoulombier
Associate Professor
Finance
EDHEC Business School
Singapore
Biography
Frédéric Ducoulombier has been a full-time faculty member of EDHEC Business School since 2002. He currently serves as the director of risk and compliance and a member of the executive committee and the Corporate Director of Scientific Beta, the index provision venture started by EDHEC-Risk Institute, the School’s risk and investment management research centre. Over his career, he has held managerial positions in general management, business development and internationalisation. His non-managerial work has included teaching finance in China and France and researching investment and risk management topics with a focus on indexing and regulatory issues pertaining to financial markets and instruments. He served on the Consultative Working Group of the European Securities Markets Authority’s Financial Innovation Standing Committee from 2015 to 2017. He holds a Master in Management from IÉSEG School of Management, a graduate certificate in East Asian Studies from a Université de Montréal/McGill University programme and is a Chartered Alternative Investment Analyst® designee.
Research Interest
Exchange traded funds, financial indices, non-financial risks, management industry
Publications
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Achieving dynamic defensive strategies, AsianInvestor, EDHEC Research Insights supplement; November 2016, pp.24-32.
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Smart factor indices and defensive strategies, AsianInvestor, EDHEC Research Insights supplement; November 2016, pp.16-22.
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Dynamic Strategies that are Defensive When Needed, P&I, Research for Institutional Money Management Supplement, Special Issue: Smart Factor Investing, Volume 1, Number 13, December 2016, pp. 23-29.
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Difference between Defensive Strategies and the Low Risk Factor, P&I, Research for Institutional Money Management Supplement, Special Issue: Smart Factor Investing, Volume 1, Number 13, December 2016, pp. 14-16.
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Methodological Differences across Multi-Factor Index Offerings, ERI Scientific Beta, August 2016.
