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.

Climate change is recognised as a systemic driver of financial risks. This poses new challenges for investors. What is the impact of various global warming pathways on forward-looking financial risks and returns on different sectors, regions and risk drivers? And, what does this mean for your holistic objectives and risk appetite? During this session, Ortec Finance will show the best practices for embedding climate related risks and opportunities into financial planning and risk analysis.

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.