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.

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.

•  The scale of extreme weather events, climate change mitigation and adaptation activity, and the economic transition to a greener economy are increasingly material and will all put pressure on fiscal deficits and hence on a country’s sovereign debt
• Despite the size of the government debt market it is often overlooked as part of investors ESG/climate change processes, which have a greater focus on corporates
• Explore how government bond investors can reduce climate risk through optimising exposure to physical risk, transition risk and resilience