Pushing Back on Plastic
As Plastic Free July continues, we assess opportunities around reducing the environmental impact of plastic and packaging waste.
Re-Orientation
Globalisation isn’t dead. It’s just being radically re-oriented, with Asia – the Orient – as its centre of gravity. That poses some crucial questions for investors.
Fiduciary duty in dysfunctional markets
Phil Edwards and Paul Woolley argue that if asset owners exhibit a more effective application of fiduciary duty to curb performance-chasing by verifying the implicit time horizon of the strategies adopted by the asset managers they employ, they could incentivise a shift towards longer horizons within financial markets with both private and social benefits.
Aware Super positions for growth
Aware Super, one of Australia’s largest superannuation funds, engaged McKinsey as part of the development of its next five-year strategy which the fund presented to the board in March. As it develops its next five-year plan a key initiative is how to deal with growth as it plans for an organisation that could double in size.
Eliminating the costs of disruption
Institutional investors face a rapid and evolving set of responsibilities that can severely impact their ability to focus and fulfill on their long-term strategy if not dealt with in a process-driven way. FCLTGLobal has released a guide for investors, Ripples of Responsibility, to specifically provide procedures around those responsibilities and gives investors tools to understand and fulfill on these responsibilities.
Financing Clean Energy Transitions in Emerging and Developing Economies
This special report aims to address the challenge of mobilising investment and finance to support clean energy transitions in the emerging and developing world.
