The evolution of ESG investing: market insights, developments in ESG indices, and futures growth

Paul Woolman is an equity product specialist with over 20 years markets experience. Paul joined CME Group in 2016 as Senior Director, Head of EMEA Equity and Alternative Index Products. This involves managing the associated futures and options product suite and working with clients to help educate them and work on product solutions. Before joining CME Group, Paul was at BAML for over 10 years as a Delta 1 equity trader – managing exposure across futures, ETFs, swaps, structured products as well as cash equities and FX. This has provided him with a wealth of experience in the pricing, trading, structuring and risk management of equity index-based derivative products. Paul has an MBA from London Business School with a concentration in Finance and has previous experience of emerging market cash equity trading and asset management.

Shantanu joined Insight in October 2010 and is a portfolio manager within our Multi-Asset Strategy Group. Before joining Insight, Shantanu spent over four years at Architas Multi-Manager where he held fund management and research responsibilities across Axa Life entities, including Winterthur Life. He has also held positions at Mercer Investment Consulting, PwC and Investec Australia Ltd. Shantanu started his career in Australia at Retireinvest (formerly part of ING Group) in November 1998. Shantanu holds a BA (Hon) degree in Economics from the University of Delhi and an MBA from the University of Newcastle, Australia. He is also a CFA charterholder.

Magnus Linder is responsible for derivative trading at Swedbank Robur. He joined the firm in 2011. Magnus is responsible for derivatives and delta one trading. Magnus is a true pioneer in ESG Derivatives hi worked closely with Nasdaq, CME and Eurex regarding the launch of ESG derivatives. Prior to Swedbank Robur, he worked at Nasdaq and Carnegie Investment Bank.

Dijana Lind has been an analyst in the ESG department of Union Investment’s portfolio management since January 2016. She is responsible for ESG integration for the asset classes equity and multi asset as well as ESG research for the consumer industry. Company engagements on ESG-related matters and writing thematic research papers are also part of her responsibilities. In addition, Dijana supports institutional clients in Finland, the UK, Italy, the Netherlands and Austria, and she offers public relations support for Private Banking.

From 2013 to 2015, she worked for the ESG department as a student trainee. Dijana completed her master‘s degree in business administration (M.Sc.), majoring in finance at Goethe University Frankfurt/Main. In 2014, she completed her bachelor‘s degree in economic sciences (B.Sc.) majoring in finance and accounting at Goethe University Frankfurt/Main. During her studies, Dijana completed internships at Ernst & Young and PricewaterhouseCoopers