Insight Summit 2019

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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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 
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• 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

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

Related events

• Growing the Impact Investment opportunity in the UK - 12 June 2018
• Return on Impact: Net Impact Conference - 20 April 2017
• Invest for Good: Social Impact Conference - 15 March 2019
• Responsible Business - 6 February 2019

Past Insight Summit events

Insight Summit 2018: Addressing Behavioural Biases in Investing

Insight Summit 2017: Intelligent Risk Taking

Insight Summit 2016: Alternative Investing and the Regulatory Environment

Insight Summit 2015: Alternative Thinking for a Low-Return Environment

Related courses

• Corporate Social Responsibility
• Growing Social Enterprises
• Sustainability Leadership and Corporate Responsibility