Conference Day Two: 20 October 2010

08:30 Registration And Coffee

09:00 Chairman’s Opening Remarks

09.10 Keynote II: What is purpose of becoming a sustainable investor to make money or change the world?

Marcel Jeucken
Head of responsible investments
PGGM

09.30 Panel IV Engagement - A Third Generation ESG Strategy

  • How can institutional investors actively engage companies to influence material ESG issues
  • Cost versus benefit of active engagement
  • Are collaborative actions by investors to maximise the impact of engagement working?
  • How can engagement be measured in terms of success?
  • What has the corporate response to investor engagement been?

Moderator: Louise Rouse
Director of Investor Engagement
FairPensions

Edwin Meysmans
Managing Director
Pensioenfonds KBC

Jean Laville
Deputy Director
Ethos Foundation

Stephen Hine
Head of Responsible Investment Development
EIRIS

10.20 Networking Coffee Break

10:50 Communicating ESG initiatives to stakeholders

  • Is it still difficult to convey how ESG criteria are being incorporated into investment strategy to investors?
  • Effect of standardised reporting frameworks such as Global Reporting Initiative
  • Best practice ESG disclosure
  • Cost versus benefits of different approaches

Alice Chapple
Director, Sustainable Financial Markets
Forum for the Future

John Swannick
Executive Director
EABIS - The Academy of Business in Society

11:45 Panel V An Asset Class Examination - Can Sustainable Investing Be All Things To All People?

  • Thematic investing – environment strategies
  • Passive strategies and how to apply them
  • The UN PRI private equity initiative – how is the industry responding?
  • Is investing in hedge funds compatible with ESG

Moderator:

Graham Sinclair
Principal
Sinco

Speakers:

Tony Campos
Senior Executive Responsible Investing
FTSE

Gunnela Hahn
Head of Responsible Investing
Church of Sweden

Deeti Vyas
Associate Director, Investor & Corporate Services
Trucost

Steve Falci
Vice President Sustainable Investment
KBC Asset Management

12.45Chairman’s Closing remarks
Luncheon

* Programme subject to change. All conference proceeding will take place in English

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