DACH Index Webinar Series – Climate Indices
Green Investing has long passed the stage of being a niche investment strategy. Investors globally are flocking towards sustainable investment vehicles that offer socially responsible, and climate conscious returns. Firms across the board are presented with a new array of challenges they need to overcome to remain competitive and offer their clients best in class products.
Join us in our Webinar to explore Bloomberg’s Climate Index and Paris Aligned Benchmark offering, alongside insights from industry experts and product managers. We will cover Equity PABs and Thematics, Fixed Income Climate Indices and Credit PABs, Sovereign and Impact Indices.
Speakers
Chris Hackel
Head of Sustainable Indices
Bloomberg
Based in New York, Chris Hackel is the Head of Sustainable Indices Bloomberg.
Chris oversees the strategy and development of ESG, climate, and other sustainable-themed benchmarks. He has over a decade of experience working with investors to incorporate sustainable investment themes in indices, portfolios, and products.
Chris’ prior experience includes the development and implementation of automated strategies at a high-volume equity hedge fund, structuring CMOs on a Fixed Income trading desk, and developing trading tools as part of a Fixed Income Quantitative Research group. He holds a BA in Computer Science from Syracuse University.
JAS CHIMA
Product Manager - Multi-Asset Indices
BLOOMBERG/ LONDON
With over a decade of experience in banking and markets, Jas has extensive knowledge within the financial services industry. Jas started his career at RBS in corporate finance and made the transition into derivatives as a multi-asset structurer. With a focus on index-linked products, Jas drove the adoption of new products in Europe and developed new and innovative cross-asset index strategies. Jas went on to roles in business management and headed the equity derivatives sales-trading desk. Since joining Bloomberg, Jas has held multiple roles within multi-asset indices and led various initiatives to enhance our indexing capabilities.
Kartik Ghia
Strategy Researcher - Systematic & Index Solutions
Bloomberg
Kartik Ghia is a senior quantitative researcher at Bloomberg, with a focus on benchmark development and index-based solutions. His areas of research include emerging markets, asset allocation, currencies, commodities, and risk premia strategies; with publications ranging from thematic studies to shorter market commentaries. Previous work includes dynamic asset allocation for policy portfolios, long/short risk premia benchmarks, the role of currencies in international portfolios and ESG integration in commodities. Prior to Bloomberg, Kartik worked as a systematic strategies researcher at Barclays and was a currency quant researcher at JP Morgan. He received his PhD in Statistics from The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania and his MPhil in Economics & MA in History & Economics from the University of Oxford.
Devina Rana
Bloomberg Indices Product Sales
Bloomberg LP
Devina has been working at Bloomberg for 15years in a range of roles in Terminal & Data Sales, as well as managing EMEA German Speaking and PORT & Index Analytics teams. Much of her career has been focused on German speaking markets and she continues to do that with Bloomberg Indices focusing on Product client partnerships and Multi Asset Index benchmarking across the region.
Devina has a Masters in International Business and completed an Exec MBA in Sustainability in 2020.