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Speakers:
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Paul McMahon, Managing Partner, SLM Partners
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Arno Scheepens, Manager Climate Change and Sustainability Services, Ernst & Young
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Luc Olivier, Impact Fund Manager, La Financière de L'échiquier
Moderator:
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Manuel Adamini, Professional Speaker and Moderator, Speakers Academy
This panel takes a closer look at the challenges to align investment portfolios with the new EU regulations in place, such as the Sustainable Finance Disclosure Regulation and the EU Taxonomy and the growing demand for robust data to improve reporting. Hence, a focus is laid on investors' different perspectives on what is needed to improve reporting and address the challenges that have arisen with the new regulations. Asset managers share their journey from engaging capital through specific sectors, such as agroforestry and real assets, to select funds that actively work to increase transparency, avoiding greenwashing.
Paul McMahon, Managing Partner at SLM Partners, highlights the role of the European Union sustainable strategies in fostering and creating new investment opportunities, for example in the food and forestry area. Luc Olivier, Fund Manager at La Financiere de l’Echiquier shares his view about the new regulation impact on listed equity products, and the challenge to find data with good granularity to reporting.
According to Arno Sheepens, Manager Climate Sustainability Services at EY, a robust methodology to assess products already exists, but is challenging to develop one with an asset-level focus. Also, there is an ongoing work to standardize tools to measure agriculture impact, the main contributor to climate change. A consensus among panellists lies on the need to develop measurement tools with a social lens, and the need to ‘dig deeper’ when measuring and analysing impacts, ensuring there is no negative aspects and accounting for co-benefits.
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