Members only events

How are responsible investments performing? Speakers will highlight recent data and analysis on how responsible investments, funds and companies have performed over recent period of turbulence.

Commerce and Consumer Affairs Minister Kris Faafoi has announced that from December 2021 ‘KiwiSaver’ accounts will no longer include companies involved in fossil fuel production. What does this mean in investment practice?

Presentation by Rob Jolly, Financial Sector Commission, on Modern Slavery and Human Trafficking.

Topics included: Getting started with your product certification Re-certification of products Key assessment criteria (including common hurdles) Benefits of certification and emerging ESG product themes How your product is presented on Responsible Returns and upcoming

Due to the Covid-19 pandemic, the RI Australia 2020 conference scheduled for the 17th – 18th March 2020 was postponed to a one day event on the 27th November 2020.

As parts of Australia begin to emerge from this devastating bushfire season, the consideration of climate risk and impacts in investment portfolios is front of mind for many responsible investors.

Hear from leading ESG experts from ISS ESG, MSCI, Sustainalytics and FTSE Russell on the big ESG themes for the coming year.

10 October 2019: Ethical Investment Week: The Second Wave of Sustainability This ‘first wave’ of the ‘Sustainability Revolution’ has demonstrated how government policy and economics can drive dramatic changes in relatively short periods of time and rapidly reshape global industries. In this webinar we will briefly discuss the ‘second wave’ of the Sustainability Revolution that will inevitably flow from increasingly serious and ambitious attempts to address global sustainability issues including climate change and beyond. Legislators and regulators around the world are already framing the scope of these changes which will be far broader and more disruptive.

5 September 2019: ASFI: EU Sustainable Finance Taxonomy Briefing On 5 September, the Australian Sustainable Finance Initiative hosted a webinar discussion with Nathan Fabian, Chief Responsible Investment Officer at the United Nations-supported Principles for Responsible Investment, who provided an update on the EU taxonomy for sustainable activities.

Blended finance is an innovative approach for structuring an investment to mobilise greater amounts of capital towards impact. It is a strategy that combines capital with different levels of risk in order to ‘catalyse’ risk adjusted, market-rate-seeking capital into impact investments.