Crash or Crush? A $35 Trillion Market Reshapes, Beyond ESG | APAC Replay
Please join the BI Sustain team to discuss how 2025 promises to be pivotal as ESG rebrands amid macro tensions and shifts toward an era of pragmatism. We will examine how policymakers aim to streamline rules and restore credibility, investors focus on ESG quantamental strategies and emerging themes including nature, corporate commitments in balance and the rise of greenhushing as a new form of quiet leadership.
Speakers
Adeline Diab
Global Director of Research, Chief ESG Strategist
Bloomberg Intelligence
Adeline is a trailblazer of sustainable finance and ESG investing with over 20 years of experience establishing investment strategies with a focus on sustainability and disruptive trends, translating them into successful business propositions. Today, Adeline is a Global Director of Research and Chief ESG Strategist for Bloomberg Intelligence leading a team of over 10 investment professionals. Prior to Bloomberg, Adeline has been a portfolio manager of Environmental, Activist and Thematic funds before leading ESG integration and stewardship across asset classes for institutions with over $500bn AUM. She led such efforts for leading financial institutions including the World Bank, HSBC, London-based hedge fund GLG Partners / Man Group, and Dutch pension fund APG. Adeline is an active voice in the market regularly speaking on TV, the radio. And global events such as the UN General Assembly, COP or the World Economic Forum. In her career, she has also been an active member of various market-led initiatives including the Principles for Responsible Investment (PRI) and the Glasgow Financial Alliance for Net Zero (GFANZ).
Chris Ratti
Senior ESG Credit Analyst
Bloomberg
Christopher Ratti is an Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) senior analyst for Bloomberg Intelligence, a research platform that provides context on industries, companies, government litigation and the economy. His research is focused on analyzing and identifying trends in the sustainable debt markets and linkages between ESG performance to credit markets. Chris has over two decades of experience in fixed income markets and prior to joining Bloomberg, he was a Senior Vice President on the Global Fixed Income team at Lazard Asset Management. He was focused on investment grade corporate research and trading and led the team efforts on ESG analysis for corporate bond holdings and sustainable debt. Chris holds a MBA in Finance from Pace University’s Lubin School of Business and a BS in Finance and Technology from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.
Rahul Mahtani
ESG Quantitative Analyst
Bloomberg Intelligence
Rahul Mahtani is an ESG quantitative analyst for Bloomberg Intelligence focussing on ESG investment strategies and their risk drivers in terms of macro and style factors. He also explores the linkages between flows, investor sentiment and market performance of ESG funds. Prior to joining Bloomberg, he was a deputy index director and quantitative analyst at Scientific Beta, where he worked on developing equity indices based on factor investing as well as ESG and low-carbon objectives. He was also involved in research on portfolio risk management tools for the company’s clients. Before that, he was an analyst at BMI Research researching macroeconomic and political risk in APAC markets. Rahul has a masters degree in statistics from the London School of Economics and Political Science and a bachelors (honours) in economics from the National University of Singapore.