Politics matter
In exercising fiduciary duty, it is not the origin of long-term value drivers that matters, but their financial materiality, and that includes ESG says Will Martindale, head of policy at PRI.
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New investment culture embraces ESG
Investors are intentionally pursuing strategies that tie portfolio-level decision-making to systems level risks but they need more support in identifying opportunities for collective action.
Finding the stories in economics
Nobel Prize winner and Sterling Professor of Economics at Yale University Robert Shiller addressed the Fiduciary Investors Symposium recently. This is an excerpt of his speech.
Japan’s GPIF and the next 100 years
With a unique long-term horizon – 100 years – Japan’s GPIF takes a different view of investing but is pragmatic enough to see that not all investors need to behave the same way.
The road ahead for sustainability
David Blood, co-founder of Generation Investment Management with Al Gore, has outlined five priorities to focus the sustainable investment effort on over the next five years.
Finance industry resting on its laurels
The finance industry has relied on its low barriers to entry, high fees and complex language that has created enduring principal/agent problems that restrict transparency and accountability.
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