
Responsible Asset Owners Global Symposia
Insights & Releases
We occasionally post information pertaining to responsible investing, be sure to read our archive of posts below.
Road to Next
A review by Deloitte suggests that players in multiple sectors are doubling down on ESG investment, even developing products and services to implement broader shifts that span the social and governance sides of ESG.
Fourth Anniversary Snapshot 2021/2022
57 signatories report reducing their emissions from last year and attribute this to a range of measures including a reduction in staff air travel, staff commuting and more flexible working arrangements; reduced fleet size, fuel use and EV and hybrid uptake; and improved energy efficiency and use of renewable electricity.
The renewed case for a sovereign debt restructuring mechanism
Liquidity is the key to understand the structural causes of sovereign debt crises. Sovereign insolvency should be conceived not as a state’s inability or unwillingness to pay its debts, but rather as inability to continuously ensure or otherwise access liquidity.
Growing AUM Via Thought Leadership: creating impact and engagement
As the world continues to move towards a new era of instability, the competition for investors’ attention is becoming increasingly fierce.
The past, present, and future of the US equity market
A radical new perspective on equity prices and the dynamics of wealth accumulation
The dangers of persuasive technology
Persuasive technology is a massively underestimated and powerful force shaping the world and that has taken control of the pen of human history and will drive us to catastrophe if we don’t take control back.
ESG Investing: How to Assess and Navigate Biodiversity Risk
This event may spur momentum for investment efforts to protect biodiversity through three key investor initiatives.
Merry Christmas from RAO Global
To all RAO delegates, speakers, sponsors and supporters across all 7 Continents, thank you and…..well, a message from out little mascot…
How wary should we be about higher wage growth?
A thorough review of the factors contributing to, or determining inflation, ultimately reaching this conclusion: “It’s still difficult to predict how quickly wage inflation will decline”
In his 2023 equities investment outlook, Matt Peron of Janus Henderson explains why tighter financial conditions should lead to a mid-cycle adjustment in the U.S. rather than recession and how investors – by focusing on quality growth companies – can dampen headwinds posed by softer earnings.
Biodiversity Risk: Legal Implications for Companies and their Directors
The Commonwealth Climate and Law Initiative (CCLI) is a legal research and stakeholder engagement initiative founded by Oxford University Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment, ClientEarth and Accounting for Sustainability (A4S) and have produced this assessment on the legal dangers ahead
Financial institutions, businesses see a role in preserving biodiversity at COP15
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau walks with Secretary-General of the United Nations Antonio Guterres towards their bilateral meeting location in Montreal on Wednesday, Dec. 7, 2022. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Paul Chiasson
Impact Investing for Institutional Investors
This Special Report considers what can be learnt from an insurance approach to impact investing. Key aspects of portfolio implementation are discussed – including sourcing investment opportunities and measuring impact.
COP15, Behaviour Change, France, Sand & Festivities
‘We need to protect biodiversity for the benefit of the climate, but we also need to get a handle on the climate to protect biodiversity.’ Giles Gibbons
A framework for professionals
This paper from the CFA addresses the ethical considerations of using AI in investment management. It is designed to inform investment professionals and firms on the spectrum of issues brought about by the use of AI tools and big data in investing.
Sustainable finance
Clarity is everything to the NZ Superfund. By serving its mandate, the Fund adds to Crown wealth, improves the ability of future governments to pay for superannuation and reduces the tax burden of the cost of superannuation on future generations of New Zealanders.
When individual actors have their own truth
NZAM 291 signatories* USD 66 trillion in assets under management loses the world’s second largest asset manager partner amidst fears that this important wobble may prompt a bigger fracture in the wall of solidarity among fund owners and asset managers.
How “Transitory” Is Inflation?
“Those who cannot remember the past are
condemned to repeat it.”
—George Santayana
FOOD SECURITY Tackling the Current Crisis and Building Future Resilience
We seem to be missing a simple and embarrassing truth — we have failed in our moral responsibility to ensure no one goes hungry.
Fixed Income: Are the rules changing?
This Special Report from Savvy Investor discusses the decarbonisation challenge in credit investing. Asset managers can help make the difference here, through astute strategies and company engagement.