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RI Americas 2015Risky business, risky investments
December 8th and 9th 2015Bloomberg MPR Auditorium, New York City
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RI Americas 2015 attracted:333 delegates from 192 companies and 13 countriesBy type of company: By country:
• 2° Investing Initiative• 3sisters Sustainable Management• AB Global • Acrux Partners• AFL CIO Office of Investment• AGF Investments• AiCE Group/ Silver Leaf Partners• Alternative Investment Group• Altrinsic Global Advisors• Amalgamated Bank• APG• Ardsley Partners• AXA GIE • Babcock Consulting• Bank of America Merrill Lynch• Big Path Capital• BlackRock• Bloomberg • BNP Paribas• BNY Mellon• Boosphere Marketing• Boston University• Brandywine Global Investment
Management• Bridges Ventures• Broadridge Financial Solutions• BSR• Burckart Consulting• CalPERS• CalSTRS• Canada Pension Plan Investment
Board• Caravel Management• Carbon Tracker• Cartica Capital• Carvel Management• CDP• Ceres• CFA Institute• CFRA• Church Investment Group• CIT Bank• City Light Capital• City of Buenos Aires• ClearBridge Investments • CLSA• Coller Capital• Columbia University• Columbia University – Earth
Institute • Columbia University, Treasury
Department• Columbus Partners
• Commonfund• Community Capital Management• Conference Board• Consulate General of Korea• Cornerstone Capital Group• Deutsche Asset & Wealth
Management• Deutsche Bank• Developing World Markets• Domini Social Investments• Domini Social Investments • EBS Advisory• EIRIS• Eleventh Crow Wing• eRevalue• Ernst & Young• ESG and International
Development• Etho Capital• European Investment Bank• FCI-NY• Fifth Quadrant Analytics• First Environment• First State Investments• Florida State Board of
Administration• Framework• Frank Russell• Franklin Templeton• FTSE Group• Future Fund• G&S QUOTIENT• General Motors• Gilbert Consulting• Glass Lewis• Glendalough Capital• Global Momenta• Godeke Consulting• Goldman Sachs• Goodwin Procter • Governance & Accountability
Institute• GreenMoney Journal• Greenpeace International• GRESB• Harding Loevner • Henley Business School• High Meadows Institute• HSBC Bank• IMCI• Impactvesting• Independent• Institute of International Finance
• Investec Asset Management• Investors Alliance• ISS- Ethix• IW Financial• Jeremy Coller Foundation• JK Ventures• JP Morgan• Just Capital• KKR• KPMG• Lawrence Sage• Lazard Asset Management• Lenox Capital Management• Liquidnet• Los Angeles Capital Management• Macquarie• Manulife Asset Management• Mariner Investment Group• Mercer• Merrill Lynch Wealth Management• MH Invest• Morgan Stanley• Morgan Stanley Investment
Management• MRG Comms• MSCI • National Securities• Nature Conservancy• Network for Sustainable Financial
Markets• Network Global Indexes• Neuberger Berman• New York City Office of the
Comptroller• New York Society of Security
Analysts• New York State • New York State Common
Retirement Fund• Nikko Asset Management Americas• Nordea• Norges Bank Investment
Management• Northern Trust• Norwegian Government Pension
Fund Global• NW Bernstein & Associates• Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan• OPTrust• Paraport• Patagonia• Pension Consulting Alliance• Ports of Cause
• Prudential Investment Management• PWC• Quotient Investors• RBC Wealth Management• Real Research & Advisory• Responsible Investor• RobecoSAM• Rockefeller & Co.• Ross Applied Investment Strategy• Russell Investments• S&P Dow Jones Indices • Scotia Wealth Managment,
Scotiabank• SEIU• SEIU Master Trust Pension Fund• SinCoESG• Sky Harbor Capital Mangement• SRG Consulting• SSGA• Stanford Management Company• Stockholm University• Sumitomo Mitsui Asset
Management NY• Sustainable Insight Capital
Management• Sustainable Investments Institute• Sustainalytics• Temporis Capital• The Monarco Group• Thomson Reuters• TIAA-CREF• Toronto Stock Exchange• Towers Watson• Treebeard Financial Planning• Tri-State Coalition for Responsible
Investment• Trillium Asset Management• Trucost• TruValue Labs• Ulula• UN Joint Staff Pension Fund• UN PRI• United Food and Commercial
Workers Union• US Trust• ValueEdge Advisors• Vigeo• VikingInsight• Walden Asset Management• Water Asset Management• Wellington Management Company• Yale University• Zurich Insurance
Companies attending RI Americas 2015:
Asset Owner/Fund Buyer/ Fund Advisor 19% Asset manager/
Bank 40%
Data Vendor 15%Other 26%
USA 80%
UK 10%
Other 10%
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SPEAKERS AT THIS YEAR’S CONFERENCE• Anne Simpson, Investment Director of Global Governance, California Public Employees’ Retirement System (CalPERS)
• Jess Gaspar, Head of Quantitative Research, Commonfund
• Joy Williams, Assistant Portfolio Manager, Climate Change Risk, Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan (OTPP)
• Remy Briand, Global Head of Research, MSCI
• Amy Domini, Founder, Domini Social Investments
• Hilde Jervan, Chief Advisor, Council on Ethics for the Norwegian Government Pension Fund Global
• Liz Krueger, Senator, New York State
• Sasja Beslik, Head of Responsible Investments, Nordea
• Peter Webster, Chief Executive Officer, EIRIS
• Aye Soe, Senior Director of Global Research, S&P Dow Jones Indices
• Cary Krosinsky, Adjunct, Yale University
• Sophie L’Hélias, Director, Global Initiatives, Conference Board
• Matthew Orsagh, Director, Capital Markets Policy, CFA Institute
• Michael Jantzi, Chief Executive Officer, Sustainalytics
• Mary Jane McQuillen, Managing Director, Portfolio Manager & Head of ESG Investment, ClearBridge Investments
• Lenora Suki, Head of Sustainable Finance Product Strategy, Bloomberg LP
• Delfina Lopez Freijido, Project Manager, City of Buenos Aires
• Jerome Tagger, Independent Strategic Advisor, Impact and Responsible Business and Finance
• Ashok Parameswaran, Director, Emerging Markets Investors Alliance
• Don Gerritsen, Senior Manager, Principles for Responsible Investment (PRI)
• Sasja Beslik, Head of Responsible Investments, Nordea
• Michael Garland, Assistant Comptroller, Corporate Governance and Responsible Investment, Office of New York Comptroller
• Will Oulton, Global Head, Responsible Investment, First State Investments
• Nikki Gwilliam-Beeharee, Head of Food and Health Research, Vigeo
• Haig Nalbantian, Senior Partner, Mercer
• Gregory Elders, Senior ESG Analyst, Bloomberg LP
• Brenton Karmen, Global Head of Sales and Application Specialists, Bloomberg LP
• Ethan Zindler, Head of Americas & Head of Policy, Bloomberg LP
• Mamadou-Abou Sarr, Global Head of Environmental, Social and Governance Investing, Northern Trust
• Khalid Husain, Director, ESG Strategies, TIAA-CREF Asset Management
• Anna Snider, Head of Global Equity Due Diligence, Bank of America Merrill Lynch
• Ulrika Hasselgren, Managing Director and Head of Sustainable and Responsible Investment, ISS-Ethix
• Norman Bernstein, Member, N.W Bernstein & Associates, LLC
• Reid Capalino, Senior Energy Analyst, Carbon Tracker Initiative
• Paul Udall, Portfolio Manager, Temporis Capital
• Christopher Weber, Senior Analyst, 2° Investing Initiative
• Libby Bernick, Senior Vice President, North America, Trucost
• Eila Kreivi, Head of Capital Markets, European Investment Bank (EIB)
• Matthew Diserio, President and Co-Founder,Water Asset Management
• Dan Winters, Head of North America, GRESB
• Jeremy Coller, Chief Investment Officer, Coller Capital
• Dr. Andreas G. F. Hoepner, Associate Professor of Finance, ICMA Centre, Henley Business School
• Joel Posters, Head of ESG, Future Fund
• Manuel Lewin, Head of Responsible Investment, Zurich Insurance
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Right: Anne Simpson and Hugh Wheelan
“We appreciate all thatResponsible Investor does tochampion the field!”
Anne Simpson, Investment Director ofGlobal Governance, California Public
Employees’ Retirement System(CalPERS)
Responsible Investor is pleased toannounce that our 7th annual RIAmericas conference was a greatsuccess. The December event heldin New York attracted 330+delegates from across the globe totake advantage of the uniquenetworking opportunities and listento our 44 industry-leading speakersincluding keynotes from:
• Anne Simpson, InvestmentDirector of Global Governance,CalPERS
• Hilde Jervan, Chief Advisor,Council of Ethics for TheNorwegian Pension FundGlobal
• Sasja Beslik, Head ofResponsible Investment, Nordea
• Jeremy Coller, Chief InvestmentOfficer, Coller Capital
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Above left L to R: Joy Williams, Jess Gaspar, Remy Briand, Amy Domini
Left: Hilde Jervan
“Congratulations on an excellentconference with high qualityspeakers addressing some ofthe more crucial issues facingour SRI/ESG investorcommunity.”
Timothy Smith, Director of Environmental,Social and Governance Shareowner
Engagement, Walden Asset Management
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Top L to R: Cary Krosinsky, Peter Webster, Liz Krueger, Aye Soe, Sasja Beslik
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Top L to R: Sophie L'Hélias, Michael Jantzi, Mary Jane McQuillen, Matthew Orsagh
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Above: L to R: Don Gerritsen, Lenora Suki. Delfina Lopez Freijido, Ashok Parameswaran,Jerome Tagger “Kudos on a terrific event!”
Reid Capalino, Senior Energy Analyst,Carbon Tracker Initiative
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Top left: Sasja Beslik
Above L to R: Gregory Elders, Will Oulton, Nikki Gwilliam-Beeharee, Haig Nalbantian, Michael Garland
“The conference provided a well-rounded perspective on the effortsthat both investors and companies have towards social responsibilityefforts. Through these collaborative efforts, it will make for asuccessful change in the mind set and drive innovation.”
Rob Threlkeld, Global Manager, Renewable Energy, General Motors
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Top L to R: Ethan Zindler, Khalid Husain, Mamadou-Abou Sarr, Anna Snider
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Above L to R: Norman Bernstein, Paul Udall, Ulrika Hasselgren, Reid Capalino
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Top Left: Matt Diserio and Libby Bernick
Top right: Eila Kreivi
Above: Andreas Hoepner
Right: Jeremy Coller
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Above L to R: Hugh Wheelan, Manuel Lewin, Joel Posters
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Conferences & Workshops 2016
More than 8,000 delegates have attended 30+ RI events since 2008.
Our 2016 programme is the most extensive and ambitious to date.
9th annual RI Europe London 22-23 June
Global Sustainable Capital ForumDublin TBC October
6th annual ESG in manager selectionLondon TBC November
8th annual RI AmericasNew York 6-7 December
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