Aled Jones, Senior Associate discusses the different approaches available to investors for addressing environmental, social and corporate governance (ESG) issues in their investment strategies. In this update, Aled covers the following topics;
ESG strategies for investors
Active ownership
The UK Stewardship Code
ESG issues and alternative asset classes
Why a long-term perspective is important
Duration: 7:29 mins
Stewardship Codes
November 2011
Will Oulton, Head of Responsible Investment, EMEA and Aled Jones, Senior Associate, discuss the latest developments of stewardship codes across Europe. Client experience of the stewardship code and challenges the codes may present to trustees are also looked into.
Paul Richards, European Head of Real Estate at Mercer is joined by Chris Taylor, CEO, Hermes Real Estate Investment Management and Ainslie McLennan, Director, Property, Henderson to discuss the following content;
Brian Henderson, Head of DC for Mercer's Investment business, Europe and Emma Douglas, Head of Workplace Savings discuss developments within the workplace savings market.
Ben Gunnee, European Director for Mercer's Sentinel Group and Sonja Spinner, Principal in Mercer's Sentinel Group discuss OTC Regulations and cover the following topics:
Mercer Transition Consulting Programme – Ben Gunnee
Ben Gunnee. European Director, Mercer Sentinel Group
Duration 11:40
Mercer discusses transition management and the risks and complexities involved in this process.
Are Market Benchmarks Flawed? – Nicholas Sykes
Nicholas Sykes, European Director of Consulting, Mercer's Investment Consulting business
Duration 12:30
Mercer discusses whether ther whole concept of benchmarking is flawed.
Is the benchmark the right measure of risk for a fund?
How do you work out if a manager's got a suitable benchmark?
And more...
UK Stewardship Code – Will Oulton
Will Oulton, Head of Responsible Investment, EMEA, Mercer
Duration 11:54
The UK has recently introduced the world's first stewardship code. Will Oulton will discuss the principles behind the code, the industry response and the challenges this may bring for the future.
Global Equity Portfolio with Nick Sykes
Duration: 3:40
"We at Mercer have been thinking about global equity portfolio construction and we have been renewing our best ideas of what a global equity portfolio should look like. The reason we've done this is that we see two problems with current approaches to most global equity portfolio construction"...listen to more.
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