The Future of Investing: ESG & New Frontiers
7 November 2019
The Insight Summit aims to distil the best of academic and practitioner insights on critical issues impacting the investment industry today.
The fifth annual conference focused on the impact and implications of Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) investing.
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Speakers included:

- Nobel laureate Oliver Hart, Andrew E. Furer Professor of Economics, Harvard University
- Cliff Asness, Managing and Founding Principal, AQR Capital Management
- Dame Elizabeth Corley, Senior Advisor, Allianz Global Investors View the slides
- Gerben de Zwart, Head of Quantitative Equities, APG Asset Management
- Alex Edmans, Professor of Finance, London Business School
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- Forthcoming book - Grow the Pie: How Great Companies Deliver Both Purpose and Profit
- Jeremy Grantham CBE, Co-Founder, GMO and trustee of Grantham, Mayo, & van Otterloo (GMO) and trustee of The Grantham Foundation for the Protection of the Environment
The Race of our Lives – April 2013 Quarterly Letter
The Race of our Lives Revisited – August 2018 Quarterly Letter
Everything You Need to Know About Global Warming in 5 Minutes – July 2010 Quarterly Letter
- Kasper Lorenzen, Chief Investment Officer, PFA Group
- Meaghan Muldoon, Managing Director, EMEA Head of Sustainable Investing, BlackRock
- Lasse Pedersen, Professor of Finance, Copenhagen Business School and NYU Stern, Principal, AQR Capital Management
Responsible Investing: The ESG-Efficient Frontier, Lasse Heje Pedersen, Shaun Fitzgibbons, and Lukasz Pomorski, 2019
- Fiona Reynolds, Chief Executive Officer, Principles for Responsible Investment (PRI)
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- Henri Servaes, Richard Brealey Professor of Corporate Governance; Professor of Finance, London Business School
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- Carine Smith Ihenacho , Chief Corporate Governance Officer, Norges Bank Investment Management
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