After drawing both cheers and rebukes from within the finance industry, HSBC Asset Management’s suspended head of responsible investing has now caught the attention of academia.

A presentation delivered by Stuart Kirk earlier this month offered “spurious correlations,” as well as “weak methods” and an “even weaker” grasp of financial theory, according to Noel Amenc, a PhD and associate professor at EDHEC Business School, and Frederic Blanc-Brude, a PhD and director at EDHEC Infrastructure Institute.

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Our open letter to Stuart Kirk can be found here.