Upcoming Events
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Past Events
Impact Investing in Emerging Markets: The Opportunities for Institutional Investors
This webinar launched our new set of case studies of impact investments in emerging and frontier markets made by institutional investors, including pension funds.
Read about this event: Impact Investing in Emerging Markets: The Opportunities for Institutional Investors
Scaling up institutional investment for place-based impact
The launch of the place-based impact investing White Paper with presentation and discussion of the project’s findings, recommendations and next steps.
Read about this event: Scaling up institutional investment for place-based impact
The Power of Now: Investing for Gender and Climate
Combining gender and climate considerations expands the opportunity landscape for relevant, dynamic and impactful investments. We heard from leaders from the GenderSmart investor and practitioner community to hear why this powerful combination is gaining traction and to learn how you can start deploying capital with these combined lenses.
Read about this event: The Power of Now: Investing for Gender and Climate
The Realities of Impact Investing in 2021: In Conversation with Sir Ronald Cohen and Dame Elizabeth Corley
Watch our webinar with Sir Ronald Cohen and Dame Elizabeth Corley on the power of impact investing, how adapting our business practices to be more transparent in our disclosures and reporting as well introducing Impact weighted accounts, can make a positive change towards a net-zero carbon economy that will bring a range of positive social benefits such as creating green collar jobs, boosting skills and regional revitalisation.
Read about this event: The Realities of Impact Investing in 2021: In Conversation with Sir Ronald Cohen and Dame Elizabeth Corley
Fiduciary Duty: a duty to care or a duty of care?
What does the legal obligation on trustees to act in the best interest of their scheme’s members mean in the context of the need to manage the world’s environmental and social challenges? Why – and how – might pension funds consider their impact on people and planet alongside seeking a financial return? We discussed how fiduciary duty as a concept has not changed, but our world has.
Read about this event: Fiduciary Duty: a duty to care or a duty of care?
Venture capital and impact investing: changing the world one idea at a time
Venture capital and impact investing intersect in their objective to bring new capital to enterprises looking to solve meaningful problems. Why does it seem so difficult to get capital to startup enterprises, especially when the founders are women, black, Asian or minority ethnic? And why do the larger pools of capital, especially institutional investors, find it hard to focus on some of the most exciting, potentially world-changing enterprises out there?
Read about this event: Venture capital and impact investing: changing the world one idea at a time