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In this ‘special edition’ S-Factor™ COVID-19 DATA we have customized a specific view of COVID-19 related activity in a daily / volume feed beginning Feb 13th, 2020 (30 days min. and ongoing in real-time) – which evaluates how companies are managing the pandemic, in contrast to external sentiment, in contrast to market and stock performance, and in contrast to international norms on best practice.

S-Factor™ data tracks public companies’ performance on social impact & risks in relation to geo-political externalities, public sentiment, regulatory controversies, and their financial performance.

The current data set consists of a minimum of 5 years social specific, historical data for the global universe of public equities. The data drills down into standardized, norms-based benchmarks on social risks and impacts across companies’ operations and their supply chains management.

Join us for this session to learn more about companies behaviour, management and impacts as it relates to the current Pandemic.


#ESG #IMPACT

Key Take Away for Participants:

- How do companies scores and ratings compare prior to and during the Pandemic as it relates to norms-based screening on social issues - employee and community impact management and compliance?
- How are companies reacting to negative public sentiment?
- What are companies saying versus what the output on behaviour demonstrates?
- What trends are emerging from public sentiment in relation to companies change of behaviour?
- Which companies are managing the pandemic well according to a standardized set of norms-based benchmarks on social issues?
- Which companies are profiteering from selling fear?
- What is the role of fiduciary care in this scenario?

Coronavirus fears have led to a ‘historic collapse’ in investor sentiment over March as panic leaves the global economy teetering on the brink of a recession.

Investors have lumped into defensive stocks with cash seeing its fourth largest monthly increase. Meanwhile well placed macro stocks such as healthcare and utilities allocation rose immediately.

Governments are likely to need to do more than the current $1.9tn spending committed to tackle the economic fallout from the current health crisis.


These challenging times might also see opportunities for investment innovation mitigating and weathering this crisis. Dedicated SDG-aligned pandemic / disaster recovery bonds could provide a means for financing the gap, while providing alignment with SDG3 (“Health and Wellbeing”).

In 2017 the World Bank issued a pandemic bond designed to help fund the response to any widespread outbreak of a number of diseases, including coronavirus. The World Bank is preparing a second iteration of the scheme, dubbed Pandemic Emergency Facility (PEF) 2.0, which the Bank said last year was to be marketed in May 2020. But are these the best investment vehicles to mitigate the crisis and build long term resilience? And how can we assess a broader alignment with the Sustainable Development Goals?



During this webinar, we aim to discuss with investors, insurance and ESG experts across industry and academia the impact of the Covid 19 health crisis, and where and how product innovation can help closing financing gaps, while addressing systemic environmental and societal challenges such as:


- Are Pandemic bonds truly a financing option?

- How can Corona- or Pandemic Bonds and/or other financial instruments provide financing opportunities in this global health crisis – and alignment with the SDGs?

- What’s driving investor and capital markets appetite – can public private partnerships help to achieve further SDG-alignment and address systemic ESG challenges?

When the producer of the world's products closes its borders and ports - what happens to markets? When people across the world aren't allowed to gather, what happens to industries that rely on gatherings? On December 31st, 2019 the Coronavirus and "COVID-19", was announced to have originated Wuhan, China. It has since become a global health crisis unlike anything seen in history.

As the weeks have passed, people and markets have been impacted in unprecedented ways. Governments across the world have forced citizens to stay home, Central Banks have used tools to increase liquidity, and the Market has seen record volatility.   This is a new reality, and understanding the effects on Markets moving forward is more important than ever. 

This webinar will help investors understand the context of the situation  and learn about how to prepare their portfolios correctly by discussing: 

- Stock market dynamics
- The energy & hospitality industries
- Labor markets
- Globally-connected supply chains
- Which asset classes to employ in crises
- How to be investing alongside Headline risk

Join us on Tuesday 31st March at 15.00 BST for a discussion about change, through the lens of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Learn from industry experts about how consumers, businesses and communities react to - and deal with - such volatile times.

Technology, advice, and financial planning intersect on the financial advisor digital desktop. This rapidly changing desktop gives advisors the tools they need to better manage their client's portfolios, facilitate communications and have more data/analytics at their fingertips.

Bonnie Lyn recently presented a TEDx Talk at the Fields Institute for Mathematical Sciences at the University of Toronto where she discussed The Impact of Math.

Her firm, The S Factor Co., supplies data and market insight on the Social Factors™ for ESG and Impact Investing; an area Ms. de Bartok has specialized in for over two decades around the globe.

The presentation is a deep dive into the Social Factors™ or the “S in ESG™” and its power of influence and performance in the realm of ESG considerations.

Key take a way’s for participants:

• The Information Gap
• Unstructured Data Sources
• Standardization
• Materiality
• Regulation
• Value Recognition
• Integration
• Quantitative Modelling
• Market signals

Bonnie-Lyn de Bartok, BA, MCBA

Bonnie-Lyn is the Founder and CEO of The S Factor Co., a MacCormick Inc. company. She brings over two decades of Social Impact, International Business, Finance and Technology background to the leadership of MacCormick Inc. and The S Factor Co.

Bonnie Lyn has won several entrepreneurial and technology awards, led the creation of both firms, expanding globally and has worked across 57 countries, and has led the creation of several proprietary products including the MSPI™ and the S Factor™ Solutions.

Her company has developed and is bringing to market, a proprietary algorithm and index that measures corporate social impact against, international standards, public sentiment and financial performance. She is a widely acknowledged expert and much sought after speaker on social impact and risk issues, and is a graduate from Saint Mary’s University, in International Development Studies (Development Economics) and International Politics, Marketing, Finance and Micro-computer Technology.

***Correction***
Note: quotes 260 million people were involuntarily resettled as a result of industry – migrant workers subject to forced labour – source: ILO stats,

I said 260 million a day / I meant 260 million a year.

See how the best advisors communicate with clients about sustainable investing. Sam will share examples of the essential foundations of a communications toolkit. Advisors will learn compelling ways to articulate:

- Their personal Sustainability Story
- Their Sustainable Investment Philosophy
- The Sustainable Investing Spectrum: ESG, SRI, and Impact

Sam is the CEO and co-founder of Vert Asset Management. Sam leads the development of new products and tools to make sustainable investing easier for financial advisors. He has been a featured speaker on sustainable investing at financial advisor conferences in the US, UK, Europe, and Australia.

Prior to launching Vert, Sam spent almost 20 years working at Dimensional Fund Advisors. He started Dimensional’s European Financial Advisor Services business and led the development and launch of their Global Sustainability Core Fund.
 
Sam has a BA in Philosophy from the University of Colorado, Boulder and an MBA in Finance from the University of California, Davis. Sam lives in Mill Valley, CA with his wife and three children.