In this episode, Alex Proimos, head of domestic content, Conexus Financial, chats with Jason Brady, chief executive and president of Thornburg Investment Management, about a range of topics including dividends, bond yields and creating robust income in retirement.
Why traditional investment committees can amplify group biases
Investment committee meetings, a governance cornerstone at every asset owner organisation, run the risk of amplifying group biases and social dynamics, and can push the IC towards recommending more extreme investment positions collectively than the average of their individual views. Bernhard Scherer, head of portfolio implementation at ADIA, unpacks the thesis in a new paper.
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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.
Balancing act: Active management and sustainability
Since the dawn of sustainability investing, more than 15 years ago, the debate over the balancing act of active risk, tracking error and sustainability has persisted. This session looked the relationship and how various investors tackle the debate.
Investor climate panel: Net zero integration
What does it really mean to implement a net zero strategy? As more and more investors make pledges for net zero they are tasked with setting a strategy to achieve these goals.
Mandates need innovating to encompass sustainable investing
As carbon emissions continue to rise investors need to innovate on the nature of investment mandates says Colin le Duc, a founding partner of Generation Investment Management. He says real world impact is going in the wrong direction, even though sustainable investing is booming, and the credibility of transition plans is under scrutiny. What
Effective stewardship
This panel looked at effective stewardship practices and explored collaboration and targeted campaigns. Through case studies this session examined the next generation strategies and tools for effective investor engagement and what frontier topics investors should be considering.
Physical climate risks: Implications for investors
This session examined research from the Woodwell Climate Research Centre that assesses the socioeconomic risks associated with climate change and shows how societies and economies will cross critical thresholds and face new vulnerabilities over less time than the duration of a typical mortgage.
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