A Sustainable Future

What are the organising principles and ambitions behind the Swedish AP National Pension Funds? Listen to Jason Mitchell discuss with John Howchin, Secretary General of the Swedish Council on Ethics, how the nature of stewardship through greater investor coordination and collaborative engagements has the power to reshape industry practices. For more information visit www.man.com/maninstitute/responsible-investment This podcast was recorded on 04 Feb 2020.

Firms are increasingly setting committing to climate action and circular economy goals. But what that really mean? Listen to Jason Mitchell discuss with Pia Heidenmark Cook, Chief Sustainability Officer of INGKA Group (IKEA), why establishing ambitious climate targets is vital and how they can be reinforced by the power of 100%. For more information visit www.man.com/maninstitute/responsible-investment This podcast was recorded on 03 Feb 2020.

The 2012 UK Stewardship Code broke new ground in establishing investor expectations. The new 2020 Code raises this benchmark by driving stewardship deeper in investment practice and activities. Listen to Jason Mitchell discuss with the Financial Reporting Council and investors why the new Code is important and how expectations will only increase. For more information visit https://www.man.com/maninstitute/FRC-2020-stewardship-code This podcast was recorded on 14 Jan 2020.

What has to happen to drive convergence in the area of sustainable finance and what are politicians ultimately solving for? Listen to Jason Mitchell discuss with Arlene McCarthy OBE about the drivers behind the EU sustainable finance agenda and why expectations and approaches will only get more rigorous going forward. For more information visit www.man.com/maninstitute/responsible-investment This podcast was recorded on 10 Jan 2019.

More than half the world’s population lives in cities. Cities also represent 78% of global energy consumption and more than 60% of global emissions, which means they are vital for climate action. Lolita Jackson, Special Advisor on Climate Policy and Programs to the NYC Mayor’s Office, talks about how New York City is addressing climate change within its quadrennial plan OneNYC as well as its international climate diplomacy efforts with other cities. For more information visit www.man.com/maninstitute/responsible-investment This podcast was recorded on 06 Nov 2019.

Despite the systemic risk it poses, climate change still remains largely outside the scope of traditional financial and asset allocation models. Are incentives like a US carbon price the right answer? And how can markets formally treat climate change as a risk factor? Bob Litterman, co-inventor of the Black-Litterman Model, discusses all this and why climate change is like a flaming trucking barrelling toward us. For more information visit www.man.com/maninstitute/responsible-investment This podcast was recorded on 20 Sep 2019.

The growing complexity of data and our own cognitive biases often produce gaps in our understanding of the world and in the arc of socio-economic progress. Anna Rosling Rönnlund, co-author of New York Times-bestseller, Factfulness, talks about how these biases impede our ability to develop a fact-based worldview. We also discuss why a factfulness framework for climate change is vital, what building it requires and what it might look like. For more information visit www.man.com/maninstitute/responsible-investment This podcast was recorded on 26 Sep 2019.

US climate resilience is a complex mix of inter-agency coordination, national disaster insurance programs, building codes and support for scientific research. Which makes it incredibly vulnerable to the policy agenda of each administration. Learn how US climate policy responses are undermining critical infrastructure and agency support and why the current administration deserves a grade of D- to F. For more information visit www.man.com/maninstitute/responsible-investment This podcast was recorded on 01 Jul 2019.

Spain hasn’t featured prominently within Europe’s sustainable investing movement, having reversed its renewable energy ambitions and focused on an economy recovery post the Great Financial Crisis. But that is neither fair nor accurate. Learn how Spain has emerged as a leader behind the Just Transition and why its finance sector is now more sustainability aware, recognizing that Spain may be one of the first victims of climate change. For more information visit www.man.com/maninstitute/responsible-investment This podcast was recorded on 04 Dec 2018 and 27 Jun 2019.

Why are some central banks increasingly focused on the relationship between climate change and the global financial system while others remain disengaged? What are the limits to how central banks can address these issues? Learn why the Bank of England has emerged as one of the leading voices in articulating the financial risks of climate change, and how green securitisation could tap credit markets to fund sustainable growth needs. For more information visit www.man.com/maninstitute/responsible-investment This podcast was recorded on 28 May 2019.