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Perpetual roundtable discussion: Making sense of the transition

  • Date: 05/11/2024
  • Time: 12.00 - 2.00 pm (CET)
  • Location: Rosarium, Amstelpark 1, Europaboulevard, Amsterdam

This event is organised by Perpetual, a member of VBDO.

Investors don’t want to be precisely wrong; how can they be roughly right?

Join Harald Walkate and Andrew Parry for a thought-provoking roundtable discussion on the pressing sustainability challenges facing institutional investors today, including:

  • Navigating the complexities of sustainability: Understanding the challenges faced by institutional investors in integrating sustainability into their investment strategies;
  • Interpreting evolving regulations: Discussing the challenges of evolving sustainability regulations and how the UK’s SDR might inform us on revisions to SFDR;
  • Measuring accountability: Exploring the role of uncertainty in forecasting future GHG emissions through a probabilistic approach aligned to good scientific practice;
  • Prioritizing net zero versus global economic reflection: Weighing the relative importance of net zero portfolios versus strategies that accurately reflect global economic imperatives;
  • Exploring the academic perspective: Gaining insights into the latest academic research and perspectives on sustainable and net zero investing;
  • Integrate climate risk into active equity investing: Identify structural inefficiencies in business transformation and incorporate climate risk into investment decisions;
  • Actively participate in the road to Net Zero: Uncover hidden portfolio vulnerabilities and invest in transforming businesses that are well-aligned for a low-carbon future.

Speakers:

Harald Walkate | Founding Partner, Route17
Harald Walkate is a founding partner of Route17, an independent blended finance advisory firm, a Senior Fellow at the University of Zurich Center for Sustainable Finance and Private Wealth (CSP) and a member of the ESG Advisory Committee of the Financial Conduct Authority (UK). Previously, he was the Head of ESG and member of the Executive Committee of Natixis Investment Managers, and the Global Head of Responsible Investment at Aegon Asset Management. Harald is also an accomplished jazz pianist and composer.

Andrew Parry | Head of Investments, J O Hambro Capital Management and RegnanAndrew Parry is the Head of Investments at J O Hambro Capital
Management and Regnan. He is also the host of the podcast Organising the Future with Andrew Parry, on which Harald was recently a guest. Before joining J O Hambro, he was the Head of Sustainable Investment at Newton Investment Management. He is a member of a number of investment bodies, he sits on the CFA UK Society Committee on Diversity and Inclusion and is a Trustee Director of the Trafalgar House Pension Trust. He was a former co-chair of the UNEP FI Positive Impact Initiative and an active contributor to the Impact Management Project.

Agenda:

  • 12:00 | Arrival
  • 12:30 | Lunch & Discussion
  • 13:30 | Q&A Session
  • 14:00 | End
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