PRI Digital Forum: Principles to Practice 2023

Confirmed speakers:
• Steve Corrin, Senior Executive Officer, Emirates NBD Asset Management
• Kim Farrant, General Manager, Responsible Investment, HESTA
• Hitoshi Matsushita, Deputy General Manager ESG Investment Strategy Office, Nippon Life Insurance Company
• Michelle Xian, Senior Vice President of Sustainable Research & Investment, Co-head of Impact Strategy, Southern Asset Management
• Moderator: Toby Belsom, Director, Investment Practices, PRI

This session will examine the journey signatories face when transferring RI policies and ambitions into practical actions resulting in real world impacts. Most PRI signatories already have RI policies, this session will provide some guidance on how signatories put these into practice, explore the process of reviewing those policies and outline how ambitions can be transferred into investment policy and stewardship activities. This session is targeted at smaller asset managers, asset owners and service providers.

Confirmed speakers:
• Dr Urs Bitterling, Chief Sustainability Officer, Cubera Private Equity
• Claudia Bolli, Head of Responsible Investing, Swiss Re Management Ltd
• Emily Lawrence, Director, Sustainable Investing Client Engagement North America, Northern Trust Asset Management
• Moderator: Michal Bartek, Senior Lead, Listed Equity, Investment Practices, PRI

The session will explore the next, post-target setting stage of net zero investing. It will contrast the key approaches taken by listed & private equity investors. It will highlight the commonalities and explore the differences in the issues faced by the two groups of investors - such as the role of asset managers in helping companies decarbonise, the use of carbon offsets and the ways of tackling data availability challenges.

Confirmed speakers:
• Jan Berthold, Emerging Markets Senior Sovereign Analyst, Fidelity International
• Peter Elwin, Director of Fixed Income, Head of Food & Land Use and Textiles Programmes, Planet Tracker
• Simona Kramer, Portfolio Manager Socially Responsible Investing, Pensioenfonds Rail & Openbaar Vervoer
• Samuel Mary, Senior Vice President, ESG Research Analyst, PIMCO
• Sylvaine Rols, Senior Specialist, Nature, PRI
• Moderator: Sixtine Dubost, Senior Associate, Investment Practices, PRI

Many PRI signatories are beginning to consider the risks associated with biodiversity loss, along with the opportunities that arise from nature-positive solutions. This webinar will explore where and how to start incorporating biodiversity considerations in the analysis of fixed income assets. This session is aimed at various stakeholders of the investment chain, including fixed income investors (asset owners and investment managers), credit rating agencies and debt issuers.

Confirmed speakers:
• Phil Davis, Director of ESG, Helios Investment Partners
• Anna Follér, Head of Sustainability, Sixth Swedish National Pension Fund (AP6)
• Yadaira Orsini, Associate Director, Control Risks
• Moderator: Simon Whistler, Head of Real Assets, Investment Practices, PRI

This session will examine the different approaches private markets investors are taking to human rights due diligence. It will look at actions that investors can take to implement the different elements of the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights, from effective stakeholder engagement to preventing and mitigating human rights impacts. Participants will hear practical insights and examples from their peers to support their own progress on this increasingly important issue.

Confirmed speakers:
• Jo-Ann Gamble, General Manager, Sustainability, Lendlease
• Ryuichi Horie, CEO, CSR Design Green Investment Advisory
• Liza McDonald, Head of Responsible Investments, Aware Super
• Moderator: Simon Whistler, Head of Real Assets, PRI

This session will explore the updated due diligence questions that investors in real estate should ask their investment managers during selection, appointment and monitoring. Real estate investment provides a good opportunity to directly influence positive sustainability outcomes and this session will provide guidance for investors on evaluating the ability and readiness of investment managers. The session will also explore a recently published report mapping out the ESG landscape for real estate; outlining and comparing the most important frameworks, standards and certifications to help investors interpret which may be applicable for their different reporting and disclosure requirements and for which stakeholders.