Are you an asset manager, investment consultant, nonprofit, or individual who would like to invest in long-term financial, environmental, and social success?
On this segment of TheIMPACT, our host Jeffrey Gitterman, talks with Jim Roach, AIF®, Senior Vice President Retirement Strategies at Natixis, Sarah Bratton Hughes, Head of Sustainability in North America at Schroders and Georges Dyer, Co-founder & Executive Director at Intentional Endowments Network (IEN).
IEN is a peer learning network of colleges, universities, and other mission-driven institutional investors working together to achieve a thriving and sustainable economy.
Watch the full video to learn about retirement plans, sustainable investing, adoption of ESG funds, COVID-19 effects, and endowment funds.
To learn more about IEN, please visit intentionalendowments.org
Lakshmi Pratury, Founder and CEO of INK, explains how technology can bring the world together for a real, tangible, measurable, and impactful world that is exponentially improved as compared to what we could only imagine even a decade ago.
Our host, Vince Molinari and INK Founder, Lakshmi Pratury, cover everything from story telling to data connectivity (the "pipeline") and how Moore's Law has enabled this incredible opportunity to break down barriers.
People from different disciplines have the opportunity now to come together - Indian proverb style - matriarchal and patriarchal with half woman, half man. Under precepts such as these for our foundational theories of SDGs into reality that is achieved, anything is possible.
In order to accomplish real, exponential change, women have a unique opportunity to exert their stored power that has been ready to unleash for far, far too long.
Most exciting, the convergence of Lakshmi and Kunal Sood's conference under the NOVUS brand is the practice of women and men coming together - for humanity. Getting down to the bottom of what "really, really matters" that has been accelerated during COVID-19. Everyone is thrilled about this upcoming event together on July 20th and 21st.
On this segment of TheIMPACT, our host, Georgia Fairweather, speaks with Satyendra Prasad, Ambassador and Permanent Representative of Fiji to the United Nations.
Satyendra explains how the blue economy creates opportunities that transcend sustainability, exportation, and new jobs - with unlimited potential for humanity and mother earth.
The blue economy is a critical advantage for countries, and they must have a combination of:
A smart approach to a sustainable economy
Financial stability
Human resources
An integrated set of legislated arrangements
Fiji is consulting and working towards a national oceans policy and will soon finish the consultation and launch.
Watch the full video to learn about sustainability vs. commerce, resources, investment, sustainable tourism, with opportunities for supply-chain fidelity offered through blockchain, artificial intelligence, machine learning, and more.
FUN FACT -
America's Marine Economy contributed approximately $373 billion to the nation's gross domestic product (GDP) in 2018.
Social Impact Investing in the Post-COVID World
On this segment of TheIMPACT, we speak with Andrew Behar, CEO of As You Sow - the company that empowers shareholders to change corporations into a force for good.
Known as the champions of justice and sustainability in all its forms, some of the issues As You Sow focuses on are Climate Change, Environmental Health, Toxic in the Food System, Ocean Plastic, and Social Injustice.
Their different programs focus on analyzing companies using key metrics to find the leaders and lagers as industry best practices are created. These measurements include the overall benefit from shareholders to consumers by mitigating future risk as measured under a specific lens.
Since 2012, they have been involved in pushing the EGS agenda with Mutual Funds by creating general awareness. Such as helping investors align their 401K with transparent values with simple tools like Fossil Free Fund, Deforestation Free Fund, Weapon Free Fund, Equileap (Gender Equality), & Prison Free Funds.
You can become a leader in Social Impact Investing with these THREE simple steps from Andrew:
Proxy voting
Get involved in organizations
Be aware of your mutual funds
Be the change that betters our future and act now!
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TO LEARN MORE:
As You Sow response to #BlackLivesMatter and #WalkWithUs Stand - https://www.asyousow.org/
Fossil Free Fund - https://fossilfreefunds.org/
Deforestation Free Fund - https://deforestationfreefunds.org/
Weapon Free Fund - https://weaponfreefunds.org/
Equileap (Gender Equality)- https://equileap.org/
Prison Free Funds - Coming Soon
Capital Markets & Climate Change Investing
On this segment of TheIMPACT, we speak with Chris Goolgasian of Wellington Management about the capital markets, climate change, and how to evaluate risk when deploying, managing and re-balancing assets into sustainable investments.
Chris Goolgasian is the Director of Climate Research, Portfolio Manager & Managing Director at Wellington Management.
Wellington Management is bridging the time horizon gap between Finance & Climate Science, with P-ROCC framework.
Chris explains how the capital markets are trained to primarily focus on transitional risk disclosure. Whereas, physical risks can present investors with unplanned and sudden changes, or disruption, to businesses and/or assets.
Transitional risk is the transition to a lower-carbon economy and their risk of technological, social pressure, regulatory, liability, and asset risk.
Physical risk is associated with the physical effects of climate changes in water, availability, sourcing, and quality, food security, and extreme temperature changes.
Wellington Management and CalPERS launched an innovation framework to help executive teams understand physical risk when evaluating the implications of climate change as portfolio and asset managers.
P-ROCC (Physical Risks of Climate Change) framework aims to promote a more informed investment decision for decision makers, portfolio and asset managers through improving the transparency layers on how stakeholder entities disclose their physical vulnerabilities.
This empirical approach to a more sustainable future as measured by investments into the industries most impacting climate change is explained in much greater detail in the video above.
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TO LEARN MORE:
Wellington Management - https://www.wellington.com/
CalPERS - https://www.calpers.ca.gov/
Christopher J. Goolgasian - https://www.hartfordfunds.com/fund-managers/chris-goolgasian.html
Dr. Anthony Miller, Economic Affairs Officer at UNCTAD, and Dr. Chantal Line Carpentier, Chief, New York, UNCTAD discuss Sustainable Development Goals, the impact of the pandemic, and the Sustainable Stock Exchange Initiative.
Robert Goodwin, Co-founder & President of OceanCycle talks with TheIMPACT host Jeff Gitterman about the impact of plastics dumped in oceans around the world and their revolutionary recycling efforts.
Marvin Owens, Senior Director, Economic Programs at NAACP, and Ethan Powell, Founder of Impact Shares talks with TheIMPACT host Jeff Gitterman about the recent protests, racial inequality, and using capital and corporations to fight social injustice.
Suzanne Pelletier, Executive Director at Rainforest Foundation US talks with host Vince Molinari about efforts to save the Amazon and the upcoming live stream event.
Live stream Info:
June 21st, 3 pm EST.
SOSRAINFORESTLIVE.ORG
Lorenzo Rosenzweig, Founder, and CEO of Terra Habitus talks with host Vince Molinari about making an impact in marine conservation and the Mesoamerican reef leadership program.
Kunal Sood, Founder & CXO of NOVUS talks with host Vince Molinari about #WeThePlanet, making the impossible possible and NOVUS's special Father's Day Event.