New Reality for Asset Owners: Long-Term Sustainability Investments that Benefit the Planet and People

This plenary will examine how asset owners need to anchor sustainable and climate-friendly investment strategies to achieve the necessary long-term returns and by taking an active role in the companies they own to steer sectors toward a lower-carbon transition. Yet asset owners need to align their underlying investments with values and preferences of their beneficiaries and finding the right balance between social and environmental responsibility and fiduciary duty to maximize returns on behalf of beneficiaries has its hurdles, challenges and, of course, rewards and opportunities.

Speakers:

Laurent Ramsey

Vice-President - Fondation Genève Place Financière

Sonja Gibbs

Managing Director and Head of Sustainable Finance - Institute of International Finance

Andreas Ernst

Head, Endowment Responsible Investment - Constanter

Aaron Bennett

Chief Investment Officer - University Pension Plan Ontario (UPP)

Stephanie Pfeifer

Chief Executive - Institutional Investors Group on Climate Change (IIGCC)

Niall Quinn moderator,

Equity Partner - Pictet

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