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Finance, Institutional Investors and Long-term Investing: financing a more sustainable world?
10am - 4pm, Tuesday 30 March 2010, A J Herbertson Room (Board Room), School of Geography and the Environment
The finance industry is notoriously short-term in its goals and operations, often to the detriment of the long-term interests of the environment. Through their role as major funders of business, large institutional investors have the potential to change the way many industries approach environmental and demographic risk. However, change will be difficult - industry habit, perverse incentives, and legal regimes all create roadblocks along the path to financing a sustainable world. This all-day workshop is composed of five presentations, each addressing the complex network of problems existing in this area by focusing on different aspects of institutional investment, finance and the long-term.
Please come to any or all of the presentations. Presentations will last for 30 minutes each with a 20-minute question and answer session to follow. Drinks and snacks will be served following the presentations.
Speakers:
| 10am | Myopia in investment. Prof. Gordon Clark, Halford Mackinder Professor of Geography, SoGE, Oxford. |
| 11am | The principle of intergenerational equity - what force does it have? Claire Woods, D.Phil. Student, SoGE, Oxford. |
| 12pm | The role of venture capital and private equity finance in finding climate change solutions. Eric Knight, D.Phil. Student, SoGE, Oxford. |
| 1pm | Lunch |
| 2pm | Longevity risk - insurance and household behaviour in France. Dr Najat El Mekkaoui de Freitas, Associate Professor, University Paris-Dauphine (Department of Economics) and Associate Researcher, University of Oxford. |
| 3pm | Politics of long-term investment. Dr Adam Dixon, Lecturer, University of Bristol. |
| 4pm | Sizing up the climate economy. Joaquim De Lima (Head, Equity Quantitative Research, HSBC) and Roshan Padamadan (Analyst, HSBC Climate Change Centre). |
| Drinks to follow | |
Please contact Claire Woods if you have any queries.