All Sustainable financial system articles – Page 4
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WebinarPRI update on ESG for CIEBA members
On February 21, 2018, the PRI ran a webinar for Committee on Investment of Employee Benefit Assets (CIEBA) members called, “Principles for Responsible Investment Update”.
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Thought leadership
Investor recommendations for managing market short-termism
Below is an overview of recommendations, which are not comprehensive solutions, but aim to mitigate some of the most serious consequences of short-termism through changes in strategy and practice.
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Webinar
Introduction to SOURCE: the Sustainable Infrastructure Foundation project preparation system
Improving infrastructure project preparation and access to critical data to foster long-term investment.
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Thought leadership
Responding to megatrends: Investment institutions trend index 2017
What is a megatrend? Most institutions share a common belief that megatrend dynamics will result in multidimensional transformations across society, technology, economics, environment and politics (STEEP). We would also strongly encourage this thinking about megatrends to be framed within the context of an integrated system of real-world powerful forces altering ...
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News and press
PRI publishes investment consultant services review
Investment consultants advise on the investment practices of trillions of dollars worldwide.
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Discussion paper
Investment consulting and a sustainable financial system
ESG considerations seen as niche service offerings, often entailing extra costs, and only to be provided when explicitly requested by asset owner clients.
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Discussion paper
Investment consultants services review
Most consultants and their asset owner clients are failing to consider ESG issues in investment practice – despite growing evidence of the financial materiality of ESG issues to portfolio value.
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Discussion paper
Potential improvements to how investment consultants approach ESG considerations
Our central conclusion is that investment consultants are unlikely to take action on ESG issues without stronger incentives to do so from their asset owner clients.
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Discussion paper
How market structure affects investment consultants approach to ESG considerations
Relationships between asset owners and investment consultants have a major influence on whether and how investment consultants take account of ESG issues in the advice that they provide.
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Discussion paper
How industry practices affect investment consultants approach to ESG considerations
Market structure issues are compounded by consulting practices and processes.
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News and press
PRI announces plans to reimagine, look beyond modern portfolio theory
Examining the limitations of modern portfolio theory (MPT), the PRI has announced a programme of activities designed to analyse and consider the possibilities of investment decision making.
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Webinar
PRI in Person 2017 - Latest insights from RI research
Prize winning research will be presented from the PRI Awards and the FIR-PRI Finance and Sustainability Awards.
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Webinar
PRI in Person 2017: Building a sustainable economy - the role of financial markets
Per Bolund, Swedish Minister for Financial Markets and Consumer Affairs and Deputy Finance Minister Moderated by Martin Skancke, Chair, PRI
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Webinar
PRI in Person 2017: Making a sustainable financial system a reality
Janet Cowell, Former North Carolina State Treasurer Christian Thimann, Chair of UNEP FI, Chair of the High Level Expert Group on Sustainable Finance, Senior Adviser to the AXA Chairman and Director of the AXA Research Fund Moderated by Jonathan Rogers, Founder, Ostinato Associates
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Thought leadership
Corporate and investor strategies for managing market short-termism
Short-term pressure is an obstacle to creating a global financial system that supports long-term value creation and benefits the environment and society, finds the PRI’s report, Coping, shifting, changing 2.0: Corporate and investor strategies for managing market short-termism.
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Blog post
Beyond modern portfolio theory – how investors can mitigate systemic risk through the portfolio
The near universally adopted modern portfolio theory (MPT) put forward by Nobel laureate Harry Markowitz in 1952 is blind to the effect of portfolio investment on the capital markets’ overall risk/return profile and on the macro systems upon which the market relies for stability.
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Blog post
Long-term social issues drive economic growth, so why aren't investors behind the wheel?
Long-term social issues – the ‘S’ in ESG – matter for investors. They are key factors determining both long-term GDP growth and the level of equilibrium of interest rates.
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News and press
PRI undertakes work with Willis Towers Watson on megatrends
The PRI and Willis Towers Watson have today announced that they are collaborating on a project to produce a report on megatrends.
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News and press
European Commission calls for ‘deep re-engineering of the financial system’ to support sustainable economies
The European Commission has taken unprecedented steps to bring sustainability into the heart of Europe’s capital markets.
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News and press
PRI launches South Africa roadmap
Today, the PRI, UNEP FI and The Generation Foundation published a new report – The South Africa Roadmap– which builds on the report Fiduciary duty in the 21st century.
