Will is chief executive of CFA UK. CFA UK is the UK's leading association for front office investment professionals. All views are personal.
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Listening to @Temasek Steve Howard @theGIIN #GIINForum22. ‘The past is now a very poor indicator of the future…the whole economy is being reinvented now. We have to move towards total impact investing. This is not about discretionary parts of our portfolios’. Investors take note
This will be an interesting, informed and balanced discussion on an important topic given the need for global action on sustainability.
Webinar: Neo-colonialism in responsible investment practice. Register now to join on Oct 12 ➜ bit.ly/3u7J1zq
David Hickey from Lothian Pension Fund discusses: is ESG management just another European colonial power grab and what can we learn from developing markets?
Great session on the ethics of meme stocks @cfauk @AlgyHall @CFAinstitute Karina Karakulova and Marsh Bailey, CFA. Duties of care vs rights and freedoms and the likelihood that retail investors will lose out. We risk bankrupting people and could put a generation off investing.
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Key observations from @Schroders Peter Harrison @BusinessGreen’s #NetZeroFestival on tying comp to targets to push action ‘from the board room to the business’. As he says, we are privileged to work on this challenge ‘but it’s going to be tough yards’.
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Thanks @philmop. #impact measurement the next necessary skill for investment professionals. See @ImpactInvInst’s learning hub for more info.
For @WillGoodhart, "it is not too tricky to share investment return data with clients, what is harder is for investment managers to evidence the real economic change they are making in terms of driving the necessary transition to net zero."
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I'm looking forward to @Reuters IMPACT - the virtual forum uniting global leaders to drive sustainable climate action, October 4-7, 2021. #ReutersIMPACT bit.ly/3owGHzb
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Great presentation on #climate from @PwCclimateready this morning. @leannebouvet points out that different levels of maturity among investors - leaders, learners and laggards - and all challenged by pace of change. 'In my career, I've never seen anything like it' says Leanne.
It's been such an honour for CFA UK to run this programme each year. Each alumni group brings its own perspectives and forms its own bonds. Anna Lees-Jones, ASIP and I would be delighted to discuss it with you in more detail. lnkd.in/dBPiiMF
Lots to learn from in Justin Mitchell and @BrunelPP Faith Ward's recent podcast on what the race to net zero means for investors. It's complex, but the frameworks and toolkits are out there @IIGCCnews @tp_initiative
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Our Certificate in ESG Investing is categorised as a Level 4 qualification by Ofqual, meaning it broadly equates to the level of the first year of an undergraduate degree. The level has nothing to do with the CFA Program levels. It is foundational. Check @cfauk for details.
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Hugely looking forward to talking to @TimHarford about his great book
How To Make The World Add Up timharford.com/books/worldad… at 5pm on Wed 17 March @cfauk. Join us then to learn about his 10 rules and his golden rule.
Greatly looking forward to talking to @TimHarford on Wednesday 17th at 5pm about How To Make The World Add Up timharford.com/books/worldad… and his 10 rules. Tune in to learn the golden rule...Book with @cfauk before 1pm today to join us.
Thanks to the hat tip from @Forbes on @ImpactInvInst role as a go-to resource on #impactinvesting via @forbes forbes.com/sites/forbesfinan…
Looking forward to this exciting and important work.
The #UKCGFI will also work closely with finance professions, such as @charteredbanker @cfauk @cisi @actuarynews, to ensure every professional financial decision takes #climatechange into account
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Delighted that @cfauk is supporting the new centre's work. Congratulations @bencaldecott and all others involved in the centre's launch
I think they can. Impact reports can help organisations to take stock and see where they are in relation to their own theories of change. That can help them to identify where they need to do more to improve service provision and can also be a way to tell their story to capital.
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Delighted to see that the future is in such good hands! Eight @cfauk members in this impressive group.
We're proud to have today launched our new Next Generation Investment Committee to give our industry's future leaders a bigger voice and greater opportunities to shape the investment management industry. Read more here: theia.org/media/press-releas…
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Interesting and important challenge, but perhaps instead of stopping measuring impact, we should continue to get better at it - bringing closer the real world impacts that we're trying to achieve and the data that we're using to describe those?
The End of Accounting? Sustaining Financial Reporting cfainst.is/2MfgtlH via @enterprising. A typically smart and insightful piece by @x3er.
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The Climate Change Committee recommends planting 50,000ha of trees a year. Last year, the UK managed 13,000ha. Let's hold ourselves to a higher standard. Sign the petition to enshrine the tree planting target in law. petition.parliament.uk/petit…
