The Responsible Investor Digital Festival: Summer 2020

Monday 15 June 2020

Join us for one week of sustainable finance keynote addresses, high-level plenaries, live Q&As, thematic breakouts and special DigiFest ‘fringe’ events.

June 15th - 19th - on-line and free to attend!

Keynotes:

• Dara Khosrowshahi, Chief Executive Officer, Uber

• Brune Poirson, French Secretary of State for the Ecological and Social Transition

• Martin Spolc, Head of the Sustainable Finance and Fintech unit in the European Commission's Directorate General for Financial Services

• Pavan Sukhdev, CEO Gist Impact

• Dr Ma Jun, Chairman of the China Green Finance Committee

• Hiroshi Komori, Senior Director, Stewardship and ESG, GPIF ($1.6 trillion AUM) in Japan

On Monday the 15th between 10:45 - 12:00 we will join the dicussions during the first plenary panel of the festival. Discusing questions suchs as;

Will funding for environmental finance be set back in favour of re-establishing BAU, or is it the way to revive growth?
Can we expect more focus on social, labour and equality issues in future corporate and investment thinking?
or
Has the crisis put corporate governance on hold, or indicated that we need much more of it?

Speakers
Valentijn van Nieuwenhuijzen, Chief Investment Officer, NN Investment Partners
Magnus Billing, CEO, Alecta
Michael Baldinger, Global Head of Sustainable and Impact Investing Asset Management, UBS
Ben Caldecott, Director, Oxford Sustainable Finance Programme and Associate Professor
Yvonne Bakkum, Managing Director, FMO Investment Management

Moderator
Hugh Wheelan, Co-Founder and Joint Managing Director, Responsible Investor

Click the link to take a look and sign up for free: https://na.eventscloud.com/ridigifestsummer20

« Back

Archive > 2020 > June

6/15/2020 - The Responsible Investor Digital Festival: Summer 2020

Blogs

The new IRR - 4 ways to define impact

Last year I posted a blog called “The new IRR - Impact, Risk and Return”. With almost 900 viewers, this blog is my best read post to date and triggered many enthusiastic reactions. In essence, I advocated a new IRR: looking at every investment taking into account its Impact, Risk and Return.

continue reading
Towards a more inclusive top 100

"Influential people from emerging market countries make up a far smaller share than emerging markets’ 85% share of the world’s population, their 75% of global land mass or their 55% share of global GDP."

continue reading
Impact investing as a stable alternative

“Well, emerging markets were down 3% again today.” This is how an institutional investor kicked off a meeting with one of my colleagues recently.

continue reading
4 IDEAS on HOW TO CHANGE FOR IMPACT

The UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) have been widely adopted as a useful framework for impact investing. Really?

The UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) have been widely adopted as a useful framework for talking about impact investing. Really!

continue reading
Daar waar het verschil echt gemaakt kan worden

Na het succes van de eerste close van het NN FMO Emerging Markets Loans Fund zijn afgelopen week de eerste investeringen gedaan. Maureen Schlejen, hoofd institutionele relaties NN Investment Partners en Yvonne Bakkum, Managing Director van FMO Investment Management gaan in op de achtergronden van deze succesvolle launch.

lees verder

Vlogs, Video's & more

Raising the bar @Harvard

On October 26th, 2017 Yvonne Bakkum lectured impact investing classes at Harvard Kennedy school.
Watch her vlog and share her experience.
Visting Harvard
BNR Newsradio Interview

On November 13, 2017 Yvonne Bakkum was a guest in the studio of BNR newsradio - a well known and renowned Dutch radio station for the business comunity.

The interviewed focussed on impact investing and how investors can create more impact by investing via FMO Investment Management.

Listen to the whole interview (in Dutch) here. BNR News Radio - Zakendoen
Research covering 2000 studies on ESG vs CFP

The search for a relation between environmental, social, and governance (ESG) criteria and corporate financial performance (CFP) can be traced back to the beginning of the 1970s. Scholars and investors have published more than 2000 empirical studies and several review studies on this relation since then. This study extracts all provided primary and secondary data of previous academic review studies.
more
More interesting things
Of course there is much more interesting information to find on the web.

Here are some of our favorites:
- SDG - the UN website itself
- SDG Atlas by the World Bank

Some real examples

A catalyst to the underserved

Vistaar Financial Services was the idea of two first-generation entrepreneurs who had witnessed first-hand the lack of both financial and non-financial support for smaller enterprises and businesses across the country. It was clear that a “one-size-fits-all” approach when it came to financing wasn’t sustainable or practical in the long run; to truly help the local economy boom, customized products needed to be offered.

Continue reading
A sustainable supply chain is a resilient one

The agronomic support provided by Agri Commodities and Finance (ACF) includes efficient fertilizer usage, soil assessment, and post-harvest services like storage and transportation, empowering the farmers with the tools and know-how to maximize their output. One key pillar of ACF is farmer livelihood, as they focus on improving the standard of living for farmers in their supply chain.

Continue reading
Filling the gap

This project is situated in the south-eastern part of Pakistan in the province of Sindh. Its provincial capital, Karachi, is the largest city of Pakistan and among the world’s largest megacities. The solar project financed by FMO makes use of innovative bi-facial solar panels, which increase total energy generation. This is the first time that bi-facial solar panels are utilized in Pakistan.

Continue reading
Pioneering in aquaculture for a sustainable future

Kılıç Deniz is a leading global supplier of various Mediterranean fish species, exporting seafood to over 60 countries. Headquartered in Bodrum, it is the largest aquaculture company in Türkiye, having started off as a family business in 1993. The company maintains high ambitions, as it believes that healthy and affordable nutrition is a right for everyone on earth while being produced within the boundaries of a liveable earth.

Continue reading
When being large means you can make a difference

Recently, Access Bank began to broaden its horizon to better service the MSME sector as part of its pan-African growth strategy. For example, the bank expanded its support in the retail segment to support job creation within the local economy, and became a frontrunner in women finance and services.

Continue reading

The Responsible Investor Digital Festival: Summer 2020