Stewardship, the missed opportunity!

Missed Opportunity The 2018 Global Pension Assets Study published by the Thinking Ahead Institute of Willis Towers Watson, one of the leading providers of investment consultancy services to corporate pension schemes globally, reported six key findings from 20 years of...

Considering the IMPACT of your investments

Workshop Summary The main objective of this workshop is to challenge the thinking on how we consider the long-term impact of investments when developing investment strategies. The format will be aimed at promoting discussion and debtate around this theme. Trustees...

Impact Investment: intention is not enough

“For me, the impact revolution is going to be as pervasive as the tech revolution has been.” – Sir Ronald Cohen We are all students. If you are not learning something new in your field then you are going backwards. Despite having over 12 years of investment...

The trouble with the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals

I recently had the pleasure of sitting down with Laura Ortiz Montemayor, Founder and CEO of SVX Mexico, to discuss the world of impact investing. SVX Mexico is an impact investing consulting firm based in Mexico City that works with investors and entrepreneurs “to...

The blueprint for making an impact

“This set of 17 goals imagines a future just 15 years off that would be rid of poverty and hunger, and safe from the worst effects of climate change.” United Nations Development Programme In 2015, leaders from 193 countries created a plan called the Sustainable...