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Impact investing’s case for scale

Impact investing’s case for scale

Impact investing has come a long way in the past two decades, going from a niche strategy to a $1.5 trillion industry, but there are still challenges for it to reach institutional scale due to the lack of products and insufficient evidence of outperformance in some parts of the market.

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CPP Investments: A pathway agnostic approach to net zero

In a fireside chat at Conexus Financial’s Sustainability in Practice forum, CPP Investments' managing director Derek Walker discussed incorporating climate risk into a total portfolio approach, and making a “pathway agnostic” commitment to net zero carbon emissions.

ESG data will always be imperfect, despite its critical role

Professor Roberto Rigobon and Mass PRIM's Michael Trotsky explore the complexities of accurate data in ESG investment. Abandoning ESG due to imperfect data would be like abandoning the judicial system for the same reason, argues Rigobon the author of the controversial ‘Aggregate Confusion’ paper.

Investors can help prevent “race to the bottom” on labour conditions

Sick leave and paid parental leave, credible efforts to document pay equity, violations of collective bargaining laws, and employee mobility are some of the metrics asset owners can use to assess the labour practices of companies in which they invest, says labour lawyer Sharon Block.

Brace for impact

The current global context is testing the limits of the economic system built in the last century. This session looked at the need to accelerate the transition towards a more resilient and sustainable economy.

Private and public asset execution

Different asset classes have different sustainability demands and different challenges including availability of data. This session looked at the potential to have different execution strategies across asset classes for net zero and sustainability ambitions.

Investors’ role in the transition to a low carbon economy

The transition to a low carbon economy will not happen with the flick of a switch. This session examined the role of investors in financing the transition to a low carbon economy including the granular data and measurement involved in assessing and understanding the credibility of a company’s transition plans.

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