Reactions to the EDHEC Study - Faculty and Research

Reactions to the EDHEC Study “Optimal Design of Corporate Market Debt Programmes in the Presence of Interest-Rate and Inflation Risks” - May 2012About EDHEC-Risk InstituteThe EDHEC-Risk Institute PhD inFinanceThe EDHEC-Risk Institute PhD in Financeis designed for professionals who aspireto higher intellectual levels and aim toredefine the investment banking and assetmanagement industries. It is offered in twotracks: a residential track for high-potentialgraduate students, who hold part-timepositions at EDHEC, and an executive trackfor practitioners who keep their full-timejobs. Drawing its faculty from the world’sbest universities and enjoying the supportof the research centre with the greatestimpact on the financial industry, the EDHEC-Risk Institute PhD in Finance creates anextraordinary platform for professionaldevelopment and industry innovation.indices and benchmarks that provide moreefficient or more academic-based solutionsto investors’ needs than current offersavailable on the market.Research for BusinessThe Institute’s activities have also givenrise to executive education and researchservice offshoots. EDHEC-Risk's executiveeducation programmes help investmentprofessionals to upgrade their skills withadvanced risk and asset managementtraining across traditional and alternativeclasses. In partnership with CFA Institute,it has developed advanced seminars basedon its research which are available to CFAcharterholders and have been taking placesince 2008 in New York, Singapore andLondon.While EDHEC-Risk makes important publiccontributions to the advancementof applied financial research and theimprovement of industry practices,the insights drawn from EDHEC-Risk’s“Indices & Benchmarking”, “ALM and AssetManagement” and “Derivatives and AssetManagement” research programmes overthe past several years have led to a series of32 An EDHEC-Risk Institute Publication