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AQR Asset Management Institute
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.
View the agenda here
View the biographies here
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
View the slides
- 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)
- View the slides - Henri Servaes, Richard Brealey Professor of Corporate Governance; Professor of Finance, London Business School
View the slides - Carine Smith Ihenacho, Chief Corporate Governance Officer, Norges Bank Investment Management
Additional information
- Clearing the Air: Responsible Investment, Christopher Palazzolo, CFA, Principal, AQR Capital Management, May 2019
- The best investment, Anna Pavlova, Professor of Finance, London Business School, October 2019
- Responsible Investing: Does it pay to be bad? Global Investment Returns Yearbook 2015
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- Growing Social Enterprises
- Sustainability Leadership and Corporate Responsibility
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- Elroy Dimson, Emeritus Professor of Finance
- Alex Edmans, Professor of Finance
- Ioannis Ioannou, Associate Professor of Strategy and Entrepreneurship
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- Elias Papaioannou, Professor of Economics
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