SUSTAINABLE INVESTING ROOM
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10:30am - The Diversity Challenge
Speaker: Thembeka Stemela (M&G Investments)
Learning objectives: Throughout this session you will:
1). Gain insight into the current state of play and challenges faced when trying to invest in GENUINELY diverse businesses,
2). Hear of some great examples of companies that are ‘GETTING IT RIGHT!’, and
3). Learn how diverse companies are more likely to outperform their peers, and make for great investment.
* Entry to this seminar is free, included with your ticket to Sustain.social.
11:30am - Simple Steps to Sustainable Investing
Speaker: Elizabeth Pearson (Simple Successful Stocks)
Investing in a sustainable and responsible way can be a bamboozling at the best of times! In this talk Elizabeth gives you the knowledge and confidence to take the steps to align investing with your values and do it with integrity. As a financial educator and from her personal investing experience she will teach you how to:
- Be really clear about your focus of investing sustainably
- Have a look at where you are investing
- Simply make a difference with your pension
- Sort out funds and sift through shares
- Sustain yourself and stay optimistic!
12:05pm - How to Invest in Rare Tangible Assets: Coins, Stamps, Books & more
Speaker: Geoff Anandappa (Rare Tangible Assets Ltd)
Rare Tangible Assets (RTAs) include ancient coins, rare stamps, first-edition books, limited edition artworks, vintage film posters, whiskey & spirits, luxury watches and more. In the current climate of uncertain markets and rising inflation, RTAs are one of the most undervalued investment opportunities around. RTAs have a proven track record over many decades, uncorrelated with mainstream investments such as equities, property or bonds. They are ideal for long-term investment, portfolio diversification, retirement & legacy planning, and investing for children or grandchildren. This presentation will show you how to invest in RTAs with expert advice and guidance, avoiding the pitfalls of high trading costs and commissions.
* Entry to this seminar is free, included with your ticket to Sustain.social.
12:40pm - The role of finance in transition to net zero carbon and nature positive economy
Speaker: Sara Minchin
Sustainable finance has been riddled with lack of definitions and the need to prove a business case in terms of financial materiality, but despite these challenges has grown and matured considerably in the last few years. It is now widely accepted that climate change and nature loss pose a significant risk to all economies and to the stability of the global financial system, whether in the form of physical, transition or liability risks. The discussion on clarifying the definitions has also moved forward. Sustainable finance has developed from philanthropy to risk management to considering the most material impacts. Challenges remain and we still have some way to go to the ultimate goal where all finance becomes sustainable finance and all business strategies sustainable strategies.
* Entry to this seminar is free, included with your ticket to Sustain.social.
1:50pm - Invest along with communities in Energy Garden’s inclusive ESG offering
Speaker: Agamemnon Otero MBE (Energy Garden)
Hear about Energy Garden- a Community Benefit Society that provides a 5.5% financial return from renewable energy revenues while supporting community development in London. ESG outcomes from this model include: a fully funded network of community gardens on London’s railway network; education programmes, including a paid youth training programme and primary school workshops; and a one-member-one-vote governance structure for investors. Energy Garden delivered the first ever community-funded solar installation on the UK railway last year – a 231kWp array on a train depot in Streatham- by working with stakeholders including Patagonia, GTR, Network Rail and the DfT. They have a pipeline of further projects and are currently raising funds through a community share offer to deliver up to 1MW of solar by the end of the year. Energy Garden recently featured in UK Cabinet Office One Step Greener Campaign, the World Economic Forum Website, The Patagonia Film We The Power, as a UN Global Compact Breakthrough Project, in the Climate of Change Audible Original Podcast alongside Cate Blanchet, HRH Prince William. BBC Radio 4’s You & Yours, the Guardian, ITV, the Times, the Evening Standard, and Tortoise media.
* Entry to this seminar is free, included with your ticket to Sustain.social.
2:25pm - Getting away with Greenwashing
Speaker: Cam Bourne (The Big Exchange)
Cam looks to address the elephant in the room: are we actually getting what we’re told we’re getting? Questioning our expectations vs. the reality in retail investing and giving you some key things to take away when you’re looking to invest in that something to match your values, your aims, or your ambitions.
- What is greenwashing and how to spot it?
- Who’s fault is it anyway?
- How to get past the greenwash?
- Where does the responsibility lie?
* Entry to this seminar is free, included with your ticket to Sustain.social.
3:05pm - ‘Net Zero, and how to ‘Paris Align’ an investment portfolio’
Speaker: Mike Oliveros (M&G Investments)
Learning Objectives: Throughout this session you will
1). Gain an overview of ‘Net Zero’ and the ‘Paris Agreement’, and what both actually mean to us as investors.
2). Look at case studies of companies that are leading the way in terms of their ESG aspirations, as well as financial objectives.
* Entry to this seminar is free, included with your ticket to Sustain.social.
4:05pm - Egalitarian Capitalism - creating a fair economy
Speaker: Gavin Oldham OBE (The Share Foundation)
While capitalism drives wealth creation and promotes individual endeavour and creativity, in its current form it is also driving huge inequalities in the distribution of wealth and assets. Political solutions to resolve inequality, particularly enforced redistribution of wealth through taxation or other means, are mainly driven by state intermediation and in many cases have resulted in excessive public debt and social discord. However, doing nothing to address the problem will continue to exacerbate the largest, most intractable economic problem which humanity continues to face.
A more egalitarian system of capitalism, one that empowers and provides individuals from all walks of life with the opportunities to fulfil their potential, would offer an economic solution to addressing the problem.
The key elements of this approach will include:
- Disintermediation – individual empowerment
- Inter-generational wealth transfer
- Mass equity participation
- Human capital – reducing inequality and improving productivity through education and training.
Come and hear more about a wholly new approach to achieving social justice while at the same time complementing and celebrating individual human enterprise, at the seminar at 4.05 pm in the Sustainable Investing Room.
* Entry to this seminar is free, included with your ticket to Sustain.social.
