Shaping the future of capital markets: impact investing in publicly-listed securities
Thursday, October 22nd 2015, 8am to 2pm
The Dutch Hall, 7 Austin Friars, London EC2N 2HA
Taking place within Good Money Week, this event explored how impact investing can help to shape a vision for the future of capital markets by supporting the next generation of businesses which have social and environmental change at the core of their activities. With a focus on the ability of public markets to create opportunities for scale and for the democratisation of investment, high profile experts from the worlds of sustainable business and finance articulated a strong case for impact investing on publicly listed markets
Over 200 people attended this event organised by the Social Stock Exchange. Speakers included:
- Sir Ian Cheshire, Government Lead Non-Executive Director; former CEO, Kingfisher
- John Elkington, Executive Chairman and Co-founder, Volans Ventures
- Dorothy Maxwell, Director, The Sustainable Business Group
- Iain Richards, Head of Responsible Investment, Columbia Threadneedle Investments
- Tomas Carruthers, CEO, Social Stock Exchange
- Joe Mitton, Special Advisor at Mayor of London’s Office
- Rachel Crossley, UK Liaison, Global Impact Investing Network, GIIN
- Meg Brown, UK Business Development, IMPAX Asset Management
- Seb Beloe, Partner Head of Sustainability Research, WHEB Asset Management
- Bertrand Gacon, Head of Impact Investing and SRI, Lombard Odier
Gary Mead, SSX Editor, has produced an interesting blog about the event with session highlights – view it here.
