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Portfolio alignment metrics: what are they and how are they used in net zero investing?

The IFoA’s Net Zero and the Implications for Investment Portfolios Working Party introduces its new paper on portfolio alignment metrics

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Talking Sustainability with Emily Forsyth-Davies

Om Jain interviews Emily Forsyth-Davies. Emily is an actuary who currently works as the Head of ESG at Aurum Research Limited, a UK subsidiary of Aurum Fund Management Ltd. (“Aurum”), a specialist investment manager focused on selecting hedge funds and building fund of hedge fund portfolios.

We talk to Emily about her unique career path, her interests in the ESG area, the challenges faced by the ESG sector and what hedge funds are doing to address these issues.

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Sustainability Book Club – The Ministry for the Future by Kim Stanley Robinson

About the book

The Ministry for the Future is a well-balanced mixture of science/climate fiction and real-life climate change issues. The book takes the reader into a fictional near-future which consists of existing real-world technologies, economics, and societies, where the actions and inactions of the characters decide their fates. The book is packed with fresh ideas and perspectives on sustainability, as well as solutions to combat the climate crisis such as geoengineering and the ‘carbon coin’.

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Impact investing in insurance – a virtuous cycle

Rahul Kapur is a student member of the IFoA working for E&Y in Delhi, India. He believes that Impact Investing provides a win-win for investors and society. In this article, the third of a three-part series, Rahul sets out the rationale for impact investment for insurance companies, gives real-life examples, and explains how insurers can enter this space.

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Infrastructure evidence update: Radical new approaches to resilience needed

Infrastructure evidence update: Radical new approaches to resilience needed

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Sustainability and Intergenerational Fairness

Ahead of her appearance on the Climate Justice and Future Generations panel session (part of IFoA’s ‘Road to Glasgow’ Sustainability Thought Leadership Series sponsored by Milliman), the IFoA Policy Team interviewed Alice Bordini-Staden (Intergenerational Foundation and Managing Director, GLC Advisors Ltd) to discuss her views on this important debate.

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Making an impact in sustainability and how you can do the same

Sara Ronayne, an Actuary at the Government Actuary’s Department (GAD), member of our Sustainability Board, and Co-Chair of our Sustainability Early Careers Board, talks about her career, making an impact in sustainability, and how you can do the same.

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Patrick Cleary – SFC ‘Talk Sustainability’ Interview

Cat Conquest, co-lead of the Sustainability Board’s Digital Team, sits down with Patrick Cleary, Senior Actuary at the Prudential Regulation Authority (PRA), to chat allthings sustainability, supervision, and inspiration.

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James Wilde – ‘Talk Sustainability’ Interview

Naveena James, a volunteer for the IFoA’s Sustainable Finance Community, sat down with Dr. James Wilde, Chief Sustainability Officer (CSO) of Phoenix Group, the UK’s largest long-term savings and retirement business, to chat about sustainability.

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Sustainability Book Club – Less is more: How degrowth will save the world

‘Less is more – How degrowth will save the world’ ‘Less is more – How degrowth will save the world’ is a book by Jason Hickel: an economic anthropologist, Fullbright Scholar and Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts.