Innovations for a Sustainable Financial System
As part of our 10-year Anniversary Series, the PRI, NYSSA and SASB are coordinating a panel discussion on innovative approaches to addressing systemic risks.
The event will bring together leaders and experts from the financial industry with the aim to highlight the material, systemic and ESG risks to capital markets. The discussion will also look at how innovative solutions are being developed to address these issues, such as the Financial Stability Board’s task force and the Sustainability Accounting Standards Board. We will then hear from financial analysts who will present their advanced approaches to integrating ESG factors into their distinct investment strategies.
An agenda for the event can be found below. Please contact John Du if you have any questions.
AGENDA
| 1:00pm | Welcoming Remarks Hugh Lawson, Head of ESG, Goldman Sachs |
| Keynote Address Martin Skancke, Chair, PRI | |
| 1:20pm | Introduction to the Sustainability Accounting Standards Board: What is it and why is it important to analysts and investors? Dan Hanson, Board Member, SASB |
| 1:30pm | Systemic Risk, Transparency & Disclosure After having grown responsible investment to a sizeable industry over the last 10 years, PRI aims to enhance the sustainability of the overall financial system by addressing the challenges towards creating a more sustainable capital markets both at a conceptual level and, with increasing importance, an operational level. To reflect on this fundamental challenge, we have invited NYSSA, as a cornerstone of security analysis, and SASB, as an organisation that provides the market standard for the disclosure of material sustainability information to investors, to share their thoughts on the evolution of the capital markets landscape with respect to transparency, disclosure and impact. |
| Moderator: Fiona Reynolds, Managing Director, PRI Martin Skancke, Chair, PRI & Former CIO, NSWF Global Dan Hanson, Board Member, SASB Alex Urdea, Chair, NYSSA | |
| 2:30pm | Networking coffee break |
| 2:45pm | Integrated Analysis 2.0: ESG integration in practice: Four case study perspectives Moderator: Andreas Hoepner, Assoc. Professor of Finance, Henley Bus. School Asset Owner: Manuel Lewin, Head of Responsible Investment, Zurich Insurance Fundamental Analysis: Eva Tiffany Zlotnicka, Vice President, Morgan Stanley Quant: Michelle Clayman, Founder & CIO, New Amsterdam Partners Smart Beta: John Steur, CEO, Calvert Investments |
| 4:00pm | Closing Remarks |
| The PRI would like to thank NYSSA and SASB for collaborating on this event as well as Goldman Sachs Asset Management for hosting the event. |  |  |  |