Join us to learn why regulation and public naming-and-shaming means investors need to scrub up their sustainability strategies
Gina Miller, the businesswoman and campaigner talks with Hugh Wheelan, co-founder and managing director at RI.
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Background
While growing at an exponential rate, the green finance market is still in its infancy and is awash in mislabelled “sustainable” investment products. What is considered “green” varies from investor to investor and from bank to bank and across regions, both in terms of business clientele and financial offerings from the sector. As regulators across Europe, the UK and in North America increase pressure on investment managers to increase the transparency of financial product labelling.
As countries get serious about net-zero emissions targets in line with the recommendations of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, pressure is growing for policymakers to mandate unified definitions of “green” finance and introduce compulsory disclosures.
In a recent Morgan Stanley survey of institutional investors, 70% said they are integrating sustainable investing into their investment process, signalling just how quickly the environmental, social and governance (ESG) imperative is catching on. Despite this, the ESG narrative is dominated by asset managers and NGOs. Asset owners - pension funds, endowments, foundations and other large institutional investors - are generally kept in the dark as to what “sustainable” and “green” actually mean in the context of their investment funds.
This webinar will ask tough questions about what a new wave of transparency in fund labelling and fee disclosure could mean for global investors who are committed to going green.
Speaker
Gina Miller, Founder, SCM Direct
Moderator
Hugh Wheelan, Managing Director, Responsible Investor