Avoiding The Climate Crash
Given the capital intensive nature of high emitting assets, the finance community will play a crucial role in assessing the optimum path to replace trillions of dollars of high emitting assets with low emitting assets. From the top to the bottom of the investment chain, climate change capability will be perhaps the most important skill a stakeholder possesses and understanding which asset owners do it well and which do it poorly will be critical for millions of retirees whose savings will depend on that capability.
Read more...The Transparency Challenge
As asset owners around the world disclose more fully, best practice development is certain to accelerate.
Aligning The Investment Chain
The gradual clawing back of responsibility for the functions that for years many asset owners have outsourced is a one-way trend that is already advanced amongst some of the leading asset owners.