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A Legal Framework for Impact: AP2's investment approach
The Principles for Responsible Investment podcast - July 13, 2020 08:50 - 20 minutes ★★★★★ - 11 ratingsIn this episode of the PRI podcast, and the second to feature A Legal Framework for Impact, the PRI’s Oliva Mooney hosts Martin Jonasson, General Counsel of AP2, and Elodie Feller, Investment Lead at United Nations Environment Programme Finance Initiative (UNEP FI). They discuss what investing...
The PRI global policy podcast
The Principles for Responsible Investment podcast - July 06, 2020 08:49 - 32 minutes ★★★★★ - 11 ratingsIn this episode of the PRI podcast, the PRI policy team discusses the latest policy developments in the EU, US, China and internationally, such as: the green recovery, the EU Taxonomy, the June 2020 Department of Labor bulletin, and aligning international finance policy dialogue with the ...
The Inevitable Policy Response to climate change: asset owner focus
The Principles for Responsible Investment podcast - June 29, 2020 11:05 - 18 minutes ★★★★★ - 11 ratingsIn this episode of the PRI podcast, the PRI's Director of Climate Change, Sagarika Chatterjee, speaks with Julian Poulter of Energy Transition Advisors. They discuss the Inevitable Policy Response (IPR), research from the PRI, Vivid Economics and Energy Transition Advisors, through an asset owne...
COVID-19 and corporate governance: impact on voting and engagement
The Principles for Responsible Investment podcast - June 23, 2020 10:20 - 25 minutes ★★★★★ - 11 ratingsIn this episode of the PRI podcast, the PRI’s head of corporate governance, Athanasia Karananou speaks with Sacha Sadan of Legal and General Investment Management. They discuss the AGM season and other governance topics, including the role of investors, through the lens of COVID-19. They discu...
ESG in credit risk and ratings: episode 2
The Principles for Responsible Investment podcast - June 15, 2020 08:52 - 28 minutes ★★★★★ - 11 ratingsIn this second podcast of a series on the ESG in Credit Risk and Ratings Initiative, the PRI’s Head of Fixed Income Carmen Nuzzo discusses with Alessia Falsarone from PineBridge Investments and Mike Wilkins from S&P Global Ratings the difference between ESG in credit ratings and ESG evaluations....
Acting in concert in South Africa
The Principles for Responsible Investment podcast - May 28, 2020 12:17 - 27 minutes ★★★★★ - 11 ratingsIn this episode of the PRI podcast, the PRI's Tom Barron and Nicole Martens are joined by special guests, David Geral, Head of Banking and Financial Services Regulation, Bowmans, and Sibonelo Mdluli, Senior Associate, also at Bowmans. In this podcast they discuss the recent report completed b...
COVID-19: putting people at the heart of investor response
The Principles for Responsible Investment podcast - May 20, 2020 08:20 - 33 minutes ★★★★★ - 11 ratingsRecorded during the global COVID-19 pandemic, in this episode of the PRI podcast, the PRI's CEO, Fiona Reynolds, speaks to Sharan Burrow, General Secretary of the International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC). They discuss the role investors can play to support the health and safety of wo...
Fiona Reynolds, PRI CEO, in conversation with... David Blood, Co-Founder and Senior Partner, Generation Investment Management
The Principles for Responsible Investment podcast - May 11, 2020 09:15 - 22 minutes ★★★★★ - 11 ratingsJoin the PRI's CEO Fiona Reynolds for this episode of the PRI podcast as she speaks with special guest, David Blood, Co-Founder and Senior Partner, Generation Investment Management. Along with The Generation Foundation and UNEP FI, the PRI recently launched the project A Legal Framework for Im...
A Legal Framework for Impact: in conversation with...David Blood, Co-Founder and Senior Partner, Generation Investment Management
The Principles for Responsible Investment podcast - May 11, 2020 09:15 - 22 minutes ★★★★★ - 11 ratingsJoin the PRI's CEO Fiona Reynolds for this episode of the PRI podcast as she speaks with special guest, David Blood, Co-Founder and Senior Partner, Generation Investment Management. Along with The Generation Foundation and UNEP FI, the PRI recently launched the project A Legal Framework for Im...
ESG in credit risk and ratings: episode 1
The Principles for Responsible Investment podcast - May 04, 2020 10:34 - 19 minutes ★★★★★ - 11 ratingsJoin the PRI's Head of Fixed Income Carmen Nuzzo for the first podcast of a series on ESG in credit, risk and ratings. In this episode, Carmen is joined by Yasmina Serghini of Moody’s Investors Service and William Vaughan of Brandywine Global. They discuss: The ESG factors tra...
The Inevitable Policy Response: why signatories need to act now on climate change
The Principles for Responsible Investment podcast - April 22, 2020 08:00 - 26 minutes ★★★★★ - 11 ratingsPublished on Earth Day 2020, in this episode, the PRI's Director of Climate Change, Sagarika Chatterjee, and Jason Eis, Executive Director of Vivid Economics, discuss a pioneering piece of research from the PRI, Vivid Economics and Energy Transition Advisors: the Inevitable Policy Response to cl...
The PRI quarterly update ft. Graeme Griffiths, the PRI's Chief Operating Officer
The Principles for Responsible Investment podcast - April 16, 2020 14:49 - 13 minutes ★★★★★ - 11 ratingsJoin the PRI's Chief Operating Officer, Graeme Griffiths, in this quarterly update episode of the PRI podcast. Graeme is joined by the PRI's Director of Policy and Research, Will Martindale, and the PRI's Director of ESG and the SDGs, Shelagh Whitley. Together they run through the key u...
How CSR can contribute to company competitiveness
The Principles for Responsible Investment podcast - April 09, 2020 07:54 - 10 minutes ★★★★★ - 11 ratingsIn this academic episode of the PRI podcast, Mikael Homanen, the PRI's Senior Specialist, Research, is joined by Caroline Flammer, Associate Professor and Dean’s Research Scholar at Boston University’s Questrom School of Business. Caroline and Mikael discuss how CSR can contribute to company c...
Fiona Reynolds, PRI CEO, in conversation with... Dame Sally Davies, UK Special Envoy on Antimicrobial Resistance
The Principles for Responsible Investment podcast - March 30, 2020 11:30 - 17 minutes ★★★★★ - 11 ratingsFollowing the launch of the Investor Year of Action on Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR) at Davos, the PRI's CEO Fiona Reynolds, sat down with Dame Sally Davies, UK Special Envoy on Antimicrobial Resistance. Together they discuss what AMR is, why it should be on everyone’s radar and critically, t...
How private equity investors can help tackle modern slavery
The Principles for Responsible Investment podcast - March 23, 2020 12:26 - 15 minutes ★★★★★ - 11 ratingsIn the last episode in our series of modern slavery podcasts, the PRI's Head of Social Issues, Bettina Reinboth speaks with Anders Stromblad, Head of Alternative Investments and External Management at AP2. There are currently 40.3 million people in modern slavery today. To bring this number ...
How institutional investors can promote responsible tax behaviour
The Principles for Responsible Investment podcast - March 17, 2020 09:18 - 14 minutes ★★★★★ - 11 ratingsTax avoidance is a systemic issue for investors. It can not only have adverse impacts on the profitability and sustainability of investee companies, but it can also affect overall portfolio returns and overall macroeconomic conditions. In this episode of the PRI podcast, join Vaishnavi Ravisha...
Fiona Reynolds, PRI CEO, in conversation with…Nigel Topping, COP26 High-Level Climate Action Champion
The Principles for Responsible Investment podcast - March 09, 2020 08:41 - 30 minutes ★★★★★ - 11 ratingsIn this episode of the PRI podcast, the PRI's CEO Fiona Reynolds is joined by Nigel Topping, the COP26 High-Level Climate Action Champion. The UK will host COP26 in Glasgow in November against a backdrop of urgency; we need to reduce emissions by 50% within the next ten years to stand any chan...
Human rights and renewable energy companies: what role can investors play?
The Principles for Responsible Investment podcast - February 28, 2020 13:56 - 22 minutes ★★★★★ - 11 ratingsIn this episode of the PRI podcast, the PRI's Nabylah Abo Dehman is joined by Steven Heim, Managing Director, Boston Common Asset Management, and Annie Signorelli, Project Manager for Renewable Energy and Human Rights at the Business and Human Rights Resource Centre. It is crucial that the t...
Modern slavery and development finance institutions (DFIs)
The Principles for Responsible Investment podcast - February 03, 2020 16:28 - 20 minutes ★★★★★ - 11 ratingsIn this episode of the PRI podcast, the second in our series on modern slavery, the PRI’s Head of Social Issues, Bettina Reinboth, speaks with Mark Eckstein. Mark is Director of Environmental and Social Responsibility at CDC Group. He was a commissioner of the Liechtenstein Initiative, a partner...
The PRI quarterly update ft. Lorenzo Saa, Chief Signatory Relations Officer, and Paul Chandler, Director of Stewardship
The Principles for Responsible Investment podcast - January 30, 2020 10:14 - 16 minutes ★★★★★ - 11 ratingsIn this quarterly update podcast, the PRI’s Chief Signatory Relations Officer, Lorenzo Saa, is joined by the PRI’s Director of Stewardship, Paul Chandler. Together, they give a rundown of our key activities from the past quarter. Interested in the projects mentioned? Follow the links below for...
Australia’s fires – perspectives of Australian investors on the ground
The Principles for Responsible Investment podcast - January 20, 2020 11:52 - 32 minutes ★★★★★ - 11 ratingsAt the time of recording, Australia is experiencing unprecedented bush fires, with huge swathes of the country engulfed by flames. As of 20 January, twenty-eight people have died, close to 2,000 homes have been destroyed and a billion animals have been killed. Once again, the physical and econ...
Why disability inclusion in the workplace is an investor issue, with Ted Kennedy, Jr.
The Principles for Responsible Investment podcast - January 15, 2020 09:43 - 24 minutes ★★★★★ - 11 ratingsIn this episode, the PRI's CEO, Fiona Reynolds, speaks with our very special guest, Ted Kennedy, Jr. As a paediatric bone cancer survivor and amputee, Ted has been an active leader in the movement to expand opportunities for persons with disabilities. As well as a leading healthcare regulator...
What role can investors play in combatting modern slavery? A Human Rights Day special
The Principles for Responsible Investment podcast - December 10, 2019 10:29 - 23 minutes ★★★★★ - 11 ratingsIn this episode of the PRI podcast, published on International Human Rights Day, the PRI’s Head of Social Issues is joined by Anne-Maree O’Connor, Head of Responsible Investment at the New Zealand Superannuation Fund. Anne-Maree is also a commissioner of the Liechtenstein Initiative, a partnersh...
Forests and progress: building a sustainable Brazil
The Principles for Responsible Investment podcast - November 13, 2019 12:35 - 18 minutes ★★★★★ - 11 ratingsThis episode we’re joined by André Guimarães of the Amazon Environmental Research Institute, and the Brazilian Coalition of Climate, Forests and Agriculture. André speaks with the PRI’s Senior Specialist in Environmental Issues, Danielle Carreira, about the key sustainability matters facing Br...
Sustaining healthy oceans: eliminating the negative impacts of ghost gear
The Principles for Responsible Investment podcast - October 30, 2019 15:54 - 21 minutes ★★★★★ - 11 ratingsOceans generate half of the oxygen we breathe, supply us with food and provide livelihoods – in short, they play a critical social, environmental and economic role for us. But our oceans are in danger. Plastic accumulating in them has become a global crisis and at current rates, plastic is e...
The PRI quarterly update ft. Lorenzo Saa, Chief Signatory Relations Officer
The Principles for Responsible Investment podcast - October 21, 2019 12:48 - 11 minutes ★★★★★ - 11 ratingsIn this quarterly podcast special, the PRI’s Chief Signatory Relations Officer, Lorenzo Saa, gives a rundown of our key activities from the past quarter. Interested in the projects mentioned? Follow the links below for more information: PRI elections: https://www.unpri.org/pri/pri-governance...
The 10 billion people challenge: building a sustainable global food system
The Principles for Responsible Investment podcast - October 01, 2019 16:22 - 6 minutes - Video ★★★★★ - 11 ratingsRecorded at PRI in Person just after the sustainable food system breakout, the PRI’s Danielle Carreira sat down with Peter van der Werf, Director of Active Ownership at Robeco. They discussed key takeaways from the sustainable food system breakout; whether there is clear alignment between c...
Tailings in the mining sector: opportunities for investor action
The Principles for Responsible Investment podcast - September 25, 2019 09:45 - 11 minutes - Video ★★★★★ - 11 ratingsAt PRI in Person, the PRI’s Elena Espinoza spoke with John Howchin, Secretary-General, Council of Ethics of the Swedish National Pension Funds, and Jaime Gornsztejn, Director, Hermes EOS, about tailings in the mining sector. We sat down with them following a breakout session with Amanda Andrad...
Breathing new life into modern portfolio theory
The Principles for Responsible Investment podcast - August 02, 2019 10:33 - 28 minutes ★★★★★ - 11 ratingsThe PRI's Head of Academic Research, Katherine Ng, is joined by Jim Hawley, Head of Applied Research at TruValue Labs and Professor Emeritus, Saint Mary's College of California; and Jon Lukomnik, former Executive Director, IRCC Institute, and soon to be Visiting Professor, Judge Business School,...
How investors can promote health and well-being in the workplace
The Principles for Responsible Investment podcast - August 28, 2018 14:28 - 24 minutes ★★★★★ - 11 ratingsWolf Kirsten (Global Centre for Healthy Workplaces) joins the PRI’s Bettina Reinboth to discuss the role investors can play to promote workplace health and well-being. They explore the relationship between corporate good practices in promoting health and well-being and financial performance, and...
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