RSF Advisors

Research-based Sustainable Finance Expertise

Research

Subjects related to sustainability and finance can get technical, and a deep understanding of the two fields, drawn from both professional and scientific skillsets, results in more comprehensive and qualitative expertise on sustainable finance.

Sustainability

Sustainability is a complex multifaceted field, specifically when combined with firms' business challenges. Dealing with issues such as climate or biodiversity requires an understanding of both the science and the business of sustainability.

Finance

Finance is at the heart of every firm and sustainability is benefiting from ever-increasing attention from these firms throughout the world. In turn, today's financial expertise is incomplete without a strong sustainability dimension.

ABOUT US

RSF Advisors was created by Romain Berrou, a PhD in sustainable finance from La Sorbonne with 10 years of experience working with French and European financial and non-financial actors on the subject. His thesis adressed the subject of regulation, capital market financing and asset pricing in the era of sustainable finance. He founded RSF Advisors, a sustainable finance expertise and advisory firm in 2022 to help companies deal with a wide array of sustainable finance challenges, from the more generic reporting, regulation and strategy-related issues to the more technical aspects of sustainable finance such as advanced statistical modeling & data science and Reseach & Development.

Our approach

Passion & Expertise

RSF Advisors was created by an early student of sustainable finance who acquired a strong interest to develop an expertise on the subject starting from 2014. Since then, its founder has worked on a variety of sustainable finance topics with both academics and finance professionnals, acquiring a PhD on the subject in 2020.

Finance with a scientific mindset

Working with professionals on sustainable finance topics requires precision and a deep understanding of the underlying challenges of the field that are scientific by nature. Financial actors need to act without overselling the impact of their actions.

Adaptability & Transversality

We are interested in helping financial actors on a variety of subjects along their sustainable finance journey, from the more generic work on ESG/CSR reports, sustainable regulation and ESG strategy to more technical topics related to modelling and R&D.

A growing network of expertise

Any sustainable finance topic can be addressed by RSF Advisors through its constantly growing network of independant sustainable finance experts, which include experienced financial and sustainability consultants, seasoned academics and researcher as well as ESG quants and data scientists.

What we offer

ESG & CSR Reports

Sustainable

Regulation

ESG Strategy

Modelling, R&D

ESG Market Practices

ESG & CSR Reports

Write new content or enhance current content to enable precise and up-to-date communication of actions taken at both firm and investment level

Identify most efficient actions to improve reports with available ressources

EU/French Regulation

Help understanding EU and French sustainable regulation and how to implement it at entity and product levels

Regulatory intelligence to prepare evolution and specification of regulation on the short to medium term

ESG & Sustainable Strategy

Develop and implement an ESG strategy in order to improve ESG/Sustainability standing and reach set objectives in terms of market best practices

Implement best practices

Discover and understand your markets' best ESG practices and initiatives as well as their costs, benefits and risks

Join initiatives and report on large renowned ESG market initiatives such as the UNPRI, the TCFD, the Net-Zero initiatives or the TNFD with visibility

Address technical ESG topics

As sustainable regulation and practices develop, some aspects become more technical, and skills at the intersection of sustainability, finance and modelling & data science are increasingly required

Opportunities for further enhancement of ESG/Sustainability can be achieved through R&D

We strive to support our clients all throughout their ESG journey from their initial ESG/CSR reports and confrontation with sustainable regulation through their implementation of efficient ESG strategies and corresponding best ESG market practice. Finally, we can assist them with more technical aspects of sustainable finance relative to modelling and R&D. We can provide assistance at any point in this journey, through our expertise as well as our network's.