MSGF Finance Seminar - Pricing Climate Risk

Climate risk is investment risk. Imagine you are investing in agribusiness or real estate in Shanghai or Jakarta and you want to try to figure out much damage a typhoon, flood, or heatwave will cost you over the next 10 years. Alternatively, you work for a bank, and you are trying to decide whether to approve project finance for a wind farm built in Southeast Asia. How would your decision change if you knew that wind streams will weaken for the next five to 10 years, and thus, not generate enough energy to cover the loan (Dr. E. Benz, Asia Times Financial, Dec 2020).
Climate risk is repricing all risks, albeit mainly ex-post. The objective of this presentation is to talk about why climate change risk is a significant tangible risk that should be measured and valued ex-ante. This short seminar will walk you through the concept and the real application of climate financial-related impact.
There will be an introduction to MSGF program during the finance seminar.
Professor Entela Benz-Saliasi is the CEO and Co-founder of Intensel Limited, an AI-powered climate science for predicting financial risk related to weather extremes and climate change. Besides, since 2008 she serves as Adjunct Associate Professor at Department of Finance, HKUST Business School, teaching a variety of courses such as Fixed Income Securities and Derivatives, Investment Analysis, ESG/Sustainable Investing mainly for Master level. Entela has been acting as consultant / advisor / executive trainer on ESG Investing. Previously, she worked for UBS Investment Bank in Hong Kong, a Hedge Fund in Geneva, Switzerland etc. |
Schedule (HKT)
20:00 | Registration |
20:05 | Welcome and Introduction |
20:10 | Presentation |
21:00 | Q&A |
21:15 | End |
For details, visit the official event page here.
Kindly note that personal data will be collected and further processed for the registration of the upcoming event on August 17 only.
Kindly contact Ms Tracy Chau for enquiries.
Aug
17
Aug
17
20:00 - 21:15 (Hong Kong Time) (View your local times in other countries)
Online via Zoom