The first EDHEC Pension Fund Conference organised in the framework of the EDHEC Institutional Days in Paris on June 12 and 13 next will feature the presentation of the results of an exclusive survey on European institutional management.

Felix Goltz, Senior Research Engineer at the EDHEC Risk and Asset Management Research Centre will be analysing the results of a survey of 230 European asset managers and institutional investors that measures the gap between state-of-the-art investment management techniques and current industry practices. During his presentation, Dr Goltz will be looking at investment management organisation and portfolio construction, European investors' perspectives towards risk budgeting, performance measurement and manager evaluation practices of institutional investors and, last but not least, risk reporting or how to compare practices with investors' expressed needs.

Presiding the session will be Joseph McDonnell, Head of Global Portfolio Solutions EMEA at Morgan Stanley Investment Management and he will be joined by Noël Amenc, Professor of Finance and Director of the EDHEC Risk and Asset Management Research Centre; Eric Breval, Managing Director of Fonds de compensation AVS-AHV; Gian Luigi Costanzo, Chief Executive Officer of Generali Investments and Vincent Ribuot, Chief Investment Officer of UMR.

The speakers will dwell upon the fact that overall, European institutional investors use a wide range of techniques, many inspired by academic research. However, it appears that for much of the investment process, the industry does not fully exploit a number of proven techniques that research had made readily available.

The second edition of the EDHEC Institutional Days will feature a series of other important initiatives for delivering research results to finance professionals:

ETF Summit
EDHEC-Wall Street Journal Europe Institutional Investor Forum
Pension Fund Conference: Novel Techniques and Challenges for European Investors
Europerformance - EDHEC Alpha League Table Forum
The first IPE-EDHEC institutional Asset Management Awards
State-of-the-Art Institutional Asset Management Master Class
The three Institutional Investment Management Seminars

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