The Patrick Poon Presidential Speaker Series - Sarah Gordon, CEO, Impact Investing Institute
The Power of Pensions: how can pensions change the future? The pandemic and climate crisis have shone a light on the way society’s negative impacts – for example, carbon emissions, biodiversity loss and poor governance – pose systemic risks to the broader economy. Equally, adapting to the transition towards more sustainable economies, and identifying and creating positive impacts, offers financial opportunity. In this talk, Sarah Gordon (Chief Executive Officer of the Impact Investing Institute and former business editor of the Financial Times) will make the case for why pension funds should be looking to invest sustainably and with impact. Referring to the Institute’s work on pension trustee fiduciary duty, she will ‘bust’ some of the myths that perpetuate around impact investing for pension funds, and talk about how considering impact can be a way of managing risks and identifying opportunities. Using the Institute’s Impact Investing Principles for Pensions, she will explain how pensions can adopt a ‘transitional mindset’ and pursue an impact investing strategy.