Emerging Skills & Developments: Spotlight on ESG
Join Bloomberg and CFA Institute as we explore findings in the report, "Future of Skills and Learning in Investment Management.” We will examine current gaps between supply and demand for skills in the investment industry and tools that will enable you to succeed in your next role, specifically highlighting a key focus area of the report: ESG investing.
We will also explore ESG research strategies to help analysts gain the insight you need to generate ideas, identify ESG issues by industry and inform a compelling strategy.
Discussion topics:
- Develop: Examine current gaps between the supply and demand for skills in the investment industry, examine learning trends, and explore changes to investment team structure to better leverage diverse talent and the combined power of discrete but complementary skills.
- BI Research: Gain insight into tools to uncover current ESG news and research surrounding a company and integrate an ESG perspective into investment analysis.
- Scoring: Learn about Bloomberg’s ESG data on 11,800 companies in 100 countries and 7 types of proprietary ESG scores.
- Analysis: Explore how to analyze the impact of ESG issues across the supply chain of a company, temperature scores or carbon estimates.
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Speakers
ROB DU BOFF
Senior ESG Analyst
BLOOMBERG/ INTELLIGENCE NEW YORK
Rob Du Boff is a senior analyst for Bloomberg Intelligence, focusing on Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) research. He is a also a product manager for Bloomberg's recently released ESG Governance Scores.
He joined BI from JUST Capital, a non-profit that ranks the largest U.S. public companies on ESG priorities. Previously, he worked for over a decade on Wall Street as an equity research analyst, most recently as a senior oil & gas analyst at Oppenheimer & Co. He also worked at Millennium Partners and Merrill Lynch covering energy, basic resources, and retail.
Rob holds a bachelor’s degree in economics from the University of Chicago and an MBA in finance and accounting from NYU’s the Leonard N. Stern School of Business. He also holds the Chartered Financial Analyst designation.
Rhodri Preece
Senior Head, Research
CFA Institute
Rhodri Preece is Senior Head, Research for CFA Institute and is responsible for leading the organization’s global research activities and publications, managing the research staff and collaborating with leading investment practitioners and academics. CFA Institute produces the highest-calibre research on issues and topics most relevant to the investment industry, including rigorous in-depth research, forward-looking thought leadership content, applied investment insights, and commentary on trending investment topics.
Rhodri previously served as head of capital markets policy EMEA at CFA Institute, where he was responsible for leading capital markets policy activities in the Europe, Middle East and Africa region, including content development and policy engagement.
Mr Preece is a current member of the PRI Academic Network Advisory Committee, and a former member (2014-2018) of the Group of Economic Advisers of the European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) Committee on Economic and Markets Analysis.
Prior to joining CFA Institute, Mr. Preece was a manager at PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP in the investment funds group (2002-2008). He has a BSc and a MSc in Economics and is a CFA charter holder since 2006.