Fixed income comprises just 20% of sustainable and responsible investments, suggesting substantial room for growth. Fulfilling the potential in the responsible fixed income space - including impact investing/green bonds - requires comprehensive and scalable research capable of generating competitive financial results from a large issuer universe. Examine how to fully exploit opportunities in today’s issuer universe, where ESG fixed-income research needs equal sophistication in both qualitative and quantitative approaches.

ESG integration for privately held assets requires a different approach from public markets. This session explores how best to overcome challenges around lack of public ESG data and how ESG can be successfully integrated into asset classes such as farmland, timber, commodities, real estate, impact strategies and private debt.

Using a holistic framework to combine the homogenous world of core investments with the heterogeneous world of ESG investing.

• Hard exclusions, the good, the bad and the ugly
• Full ESG Integration while retaining chosen factor performance drivers
• Pure ESG factor performance, risk return characteristics beyond exclusions and sector plays