Sustainability: Aligning organisational goals to pension portfolios

Roger Urwin, Co-founder of the Thinking Ahead Institute, and David Rouch, Partner at Freshfields, discuss the comprehensive ‘A legal framework for impact’ report, which David co-authored, which investigates investing for financial goals and sustainability impact. How can legal frameworks enable investors to consider impact in their activities?

Monique Mathys-Graaff, Head of Sustainability Solutions, interviews Andrea Webster from the World Benchmarking Alliance about how they can help leadership in investment, asset owners and corporates globally. This includes a look at the WBA’s Financial System Transformation Benchmark and how it aims to simplify climate metrics.

Katie O’Sullivan, WTW’s Senior Director speaks to EY’s Will Compton about how organisations globally are developing how they manage their sustainability goals and requirements and how much progress is being made to manage the sustainability performance of investment portfolios amidst a changing reporting and governance backdrop.

Inclusion and diversity is a broad and complex sustainability challenge for our industry and wider society. Madhurima Sen, Director in Manager Research, explains why it is important for us all to address and how WTW is working to be at the forefront of I&D solutions.

What is stewardship, why is it so important and how can we know what ‘good’ looks like? Stephen Miles, WTW’s head of stewardship and head of equity research, talks to Eleanor Mahmoud from our sustainable investment team about why stewardship is one of the most critical tools an investor has and where we can look to for good examples in practice (e.g. Mining 2030 and EOS at Federated Hermes).

TAI’s Marisa Hall speaks to Stewart Brentnall, CIO of New South Wales Treasury Corporation (TCorp), about what the investment organisations of tomorrow must consider to address our developing sustainability agendas. They dive into the challenges investors face in considering portfolio goals alongside broader societal goals, ESG’s ‘identity crisis’, and the leadership qualities required to address such important sustainability needs.