Investor Leadership Network’s Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Committee Meets in Paris to Advance Inclusive Finance
PARIS | May 3, 2023–– The Investor Leadership Network (ILN) convened its Diversity, Equity & Inclusion (DEI) Committee yesterday for a meeting hosted by ILN member Ardian in Paris. The meeting aimed to build on the work of ILN's Inclusive Finance Playbook launched...
Five Women Leading the Transition to a Sustainable Economy: And How You Can Attract Them
It is no secret that women are critical to the success of the global transition to a sustainable economy. Studies show that a 1% increase in the share of women managers within a firm leads to a 0.5% decrease in CO2 emissions. Furthermore, women are disproportionately...
How the World Bank Can Help Save the Planet
"Nick Autiello, vice president of environmental, social and governance strategy at State Street Corp. who's also director of impact at the Investor Leadership Network, said that as valid as such criticisms may be, delivering the energy transition in the timeframe...
A review of investor action on DE&I and a look ahead to 2023
"This year, the Investor Leadership Network (ILN), a G7 initiative, placed particular emphasis on inclusion in an effort to move the conversation away from quotas. 'In February, ILN's DE&I committee laid out key inclusion metrics to expand beyond checking boxes...
ILN CEO Council Gathers in New York City for Annual Meeting
NEW YORK CITY | Dec. 16, 2022–– The Investor Leadership Network (ILN) held its annual CEO Council meeting in New York City this week. The event was an opportunity for the ILN to review its progress in 2022 and outlined goals for the coming year, setting the bar higher...
Sustainable Infrastructure Fellowship Program Graduates 33 Fellows
TORONTO | Dec. 15, 2022 –– The Investor Leadership Network’s (ILN) 2022 cohort of the Sustainable Infrastructure Fellowship Program (SIFP) graduated today after a successful completion of the six month executive leadership program. Created in 2018, this...
Transition Investing and Blended Finance Top of Agenda for Institutional Investors at COP27: Reflections from The Investor Leadership Network
Many Investor Leadership Network (ILN) members traveled to Sharm-El-Sheikh last week to participate in COP27– the United Nations’ annual Climate Change Conference, which in its 27th year has been dubbed, “the implementation COP.” This tone of ‘moving from...
Implementation COP or credibility flop? Investor reflections on first week of COP27
"Blended finance also sat close to the top of the agenda for Amy Hepburn, CEO of the Investment Leadership Network (ILN), who regards it as the unofficial theme of COP27." Read more ...
ILN Receives Foundation Support for Blended Finance Leadership
TORONTO | October 14, 2022 ––The Investor Leadership Network (ILN) is pleased to share that the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation is supporting the ILN’s leadership in sustainable finance with a grant. These resources will allow the ILN to further its leadership on...
Climate Week Roundtable (ILN and SMI): Five CEOs Discuss Opportunities and Challenges of Financing the Net Zero Transition
iOn September 22, during New York Climate Week, five leaders from across the financial sector joined a panel session at the Goals House to discuss how banks, insurers, asset owners and asset managers can work collaboratively to finance the global transition to net...
UN-convened Net-Zero Asset Owner Alliance to Convene High-level Forum on the Potential of Blended Finance
"The forum follows the release of a Call on Policymakers to facilitate the scaling of blended finance structures to fund climate solutions if the world is to achieve both the Paris climate goals and the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Signed by UN Special...
Investors call on policymakers to derisk finance support for Paris Agreement and SDGs
"While the signatories note that capital for clean technology and sustainability is readily available and growing, they express concern that financial mechanisms aren’t being blended to ensure that capital is funnelled into EMDEs. Signatories to the call included UN...
Policymakers must support blended finance to achieve Paris climate goals and the SDGs, says Net-Zero Asset Owner Alliance
"In a call on policymakers– signed by UN Special Envoy for Climate Action and Finance Mark Carney and UN High-Level Climate Action Champion, Nigel Topping and supported by the Sustainable Markets Initiative and the Investor Leadership Network – the Alliance said...
Fusion the Positive Choice for Climate Impact
"Last year, the Investor Leadership Network (ILN), representing 14 global institutional investors with over US$9 trillion in AUM, called for the creation of a rolling pool of funds that offer first or second loss guarantees to blended finance vehicles funding...
Supranationals lack climate transition plans, says top Aviva exec
"The UK government recently announced mandatory requirements for listed companies and financial institutions to publish transition plans by 2023, while the influential Task Force on Climate-related Financial Disclosures (TCFD) has provided guidance on climate...
The ILN Launches its Net Zero Investor Playbook
"The Investor Leadership Network (ILN) released a Net Zero Investor Playbook which offers an inventory of approaches institutional investors are taking to transition investing and highlights key challenges: TORONTO | Sept. 21, 2022 –– The Investor Leadership Network...
New Net Zero Investor Playbook from Investor Leadership Network Guides Asset Owners and Asset Managers Through Portfolio Transitions
Investor Leadership Network’s new Net Zero Investor Playbook offers an inventory of approaches institutional investors are taking to transition investing and highlights key challenges TORONTO | Sept. 21, 2022 –– The Investor Leadership Network (ILN) launched...
Nordea Asset Management and Ninety One Become Official Members of Investor Leadership Network
TORONTO | September 1, 2022 The Investor Leadership Network (ILN) is pleased to welcome Nordea Asset Management and Ninety One as official new members of the ILN, a global network of institutional investors committed to accelerating the transition to a sustainable and...
Nick Autiello Joins Investor Leadership Network Secretariat as Director of Impact
TORONTO | August 30, 2022–– The Investor Leadership Network (ILN) is pleased to welcome Nick Autiello to the ILN Secretariat as its new Director of Impact. In this role, Nick will work across the ILN and with key partners in the private, public and philanthropic...
ILN Begins Third Annual Sustainable Infrastructure Fellowship Program for 34 New Fellows
TORONTO | June 2, 2022–– Academic instruction for the Investor Leadership Network’s (ILN) third annual Sustainable Infrastructure Fellowship Program begins today. Created in 2018, this executive leadership program offers academic and practical training to...
ILN Climate Change Advisory Committee Meets in Boston and Paris to Compare Portfolio Transition Strategies
PARIS | May 19, 2022–– The Investor Leadership Network (ILN) convened its Climate Change Advisory Committee today for a working meeting to identify the most impactful portfolio management and investment strategies to move the global economy through a sustainable...
ILN CEO Amy Hepburn Joins Sustainable Finance Roundtable with Canadian Government
OTTOWA | May 18, 2022–– Amy Hepburn, CEO of the Investor Leadership Network (ILN), represented the ILN at a High-Level Roundtable for Sustainable Finance in Ottowa, Canada today to discuss the role of sustainable finance in addressing climate change and building a...
ILN Members Meet with The Prince of Wales, Secretary John Kerry, and Other Global Leaders in London
LONDON | May 13, 2022–– The Investor Leadership Network (ILN) joined the Sustainable Markets Initiative’s CEO Summit this week to discuss the transition to a sustainable economy with other CEOs and global leaders. The Prince of Wales’s Sustainable Markets...
“Investors telling managers: Show your progress”
"In March, the Investor Leadership Network, a group of institutional investors focused on social responsibility, published its Inclusive Finance Playbook, a guide that provides information metrics and best practices institutional investors are using to assess DEI...
“Measuring asset managers’ DEI devotion”
"Then there’s the Investment Leadership Network, Washington, which decided that of its three areas of focus — climate change, sustainable infrastructure and diversity in investment — the last priority needed more attention. After review, the ILN debuted its Inclusive...
New diversity tool targets investors’ inclusion issues
"Investor Leadership Network, Washington, launched a new online tool, the Inclusive Finance Playbook, which focuses on inclusion metrics for asset owners and investment managers. The playbook offers investors two tiers of metrics — fundamental and advanced — that help...
ILN Launches an Inclusion Playbook To Help Investors Assess and Engage on Inclusion Throughout Their Portfolios
The Network of 13 global institutional investors representing $10 trillion AUM endorses a set of inclusion metrics that they will begin integrating into portfolio assessment and engagement March 24, 2022– The Investor Leadership Network (ILN) today released its...
Investor Leadership Network Opens Applications for 2022 Sustainable Infrastructure Fellowship Program
March 4, 2022–– The Investor Leadership Network (ILN) opens applications today for its third annual Sustainable Infrastructure Fellowship Program. The program will be held virtually and begin in June, 2022. The Fellowship Program is conducted by York...
Standard Setters Return to ILN Roundtable to Review Inclusion Playbook
February 18, 2022– The Investor Leadership Network (ILN) hosted its second Standard Setter Inclusion Roundtable today to gain feedback on the Network's upcoming Inclusion Playbook. ILN members and ILN partner Diversio invited leading standard setters to provide...
“Sea level rise must be considered by investors”
"There are also big considerations around insurance. Current policies, based on already outdated flood maps, could lead to a volume of claims that would strain insurance companies. Premiums will likely rise to unaffordable levels for many businesses in the future,...
Blake Hutcheson and Marc-André Blanchard Named New Co-Chairs of the ILN CEO Council
November 23, 2021 – The Investor Leadership Network (ILN), a leading network of investors taking action for people, planet, and prosperity, is announcing two new leaders of its CEO Council. Blake Hutcheson, President and CEO of OMERS, and Marc-André Blanchard,...
Standard Setters Join ILN Inclusion Roundtable to Review Upcoming Inclusion Playbook
November 18, 2021– The Investor Leadership Network (ILN) hosted its first Standard Setter Inclusion Roundtable today to discuss the introduction of measurement and engagement around inclusion to the investment industry. ILN members and ILN partner Diversio invited...
COP-ious pledges to transform climate finance?
"In October 2021, the Investor Leadership Network (ILN), in collaboration with The Rockefeller Foundation, released a Blended Finance Blueprint, proposing seven specific actions the blended finance community can take to reduce risk and increase sustainable investments...
COPing with the devil in the details
"In October 2021, the Investor Leadership Network (ILN), in collaboration with The Rockefeller Foundation, released a Blended Finance Blueprint, proposing seven specific actions the blended finance community can take to reduce risk and increase sustainable investments...
The Investor Leadership Network Launches New Toolkit to Help Integrate Physical Climate Risks into Investment Decisions
New resources and step-by-step approach help investors address direct and indirect physical risks and identify more climate resilient assets TORONTO | Nov. 3, 2021 –– The Investor Leadership Network (ILN) launched today a new resource to help investors address...
Finding the Right Blend
"Investors call for blended finance to play a larger role in supporting climate adaption and mitigation in emerging markets. A new report last week sent a sobering message to the great and the good getting set to converge on Glasgow for COP26. There will be much noise...
‘Blended finance’ must improve risk-return profile of investments, say institutional investors
"A USD9 trillion investor group has made a series of recommendations for channelling greater sums of private capital into ‘blended finance’, including projects to help emerging market countries reduce their carbon emissions." Read this article on Institutional Asset...
New Blueprint Provides Opportunities To Leverage Trillions of Dollars of Global Institutional Investors To Combat Climate Change
Investor Leadership Network and The Rockefeller Foundation advance recommendations to increase private investment and blended finance partnership ahead of the G20 and COP26 NEW YORK | October 4, 2021 — The Investor Leadership Network (ILN), a leading network of...
Investor Leadership Network Welcomes State Street Global Advisors As Official Member
The Investor Leadership Network (ILN) announced today that State Street Global Advisors has officially joined the collaborative group of global institutional investors, effective immediately. State Street Global Advisors brings $3.9 trillion of net assets under...
Achieving A Gender Just World: Thought Leaders Provide Actionable Ways To Break Through Equality’s Biggest Barriers
"'I often tell my four young children when they are confronted with an injustice that they have two choices: become part of the solution or remain part of the problem by being silent and complicit in a world that allows it to persist. The more we place women in...
Envisioning A Gender Just World: Global Thought Leaders Weigh In
"'In a gender equal world, people of all genders will have equal representation at the highest levels of decision making, whether that be in the courtroom, the political arena, the boardroom or through financial status. The words “boss” and “founder” will no longer be...
ILN Releases Blueprint to Help Drive Change in the Investment and Financial Sectors
Investor Leadership Network launches ‘state of the industry’ report on equity, diversity and inclusion. The Investor Leadership Network (ILN) today released its latest report, Creating a More Inclusive Economy: Practical insights from global institutional...
Large Institutions, Including AIMCo, OMERS, and CPP, Reveal Their Progress on Diversity
"Institutions that oversee $8 trillion in assets have implemented everything from data analysis programs to new executive incentives to achieve equity and inclusion goals." Read the full article from Institutional Investor.
Prince Charles brings together the CEOs of large global companies: together for the green challenge
[Translated from Italian] "So for one evening St James's Palace, in the heart of London, opened its doors to 300 international exponents of the business world: from designer Stella McCartney to the CEO of NatWest, Alison Rose, to the UK president for Cop26 Alok...
ESG Investing Announces Award Winners
"ESG Investing has announced the winners of its 2021 awards, celebrating the best in Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) research, ratings, funds and products. MOST INNOVATIVE ESG INITIATIVE Runner-up: Investor Leadership Network" Read the full release on...
Investor Leadership Network Launches Second Edition of the Sustainable Infrastructure Fellowship Program
The Investor Leadership Network (ILN) is proud to announce the launch of its second annual Sustainable Infrastructure Fellowship Program. The program will be held virtually and begins today. The Fellowship Program is conducted by York University’s Schulich School of...
Investor Leadership Network takes further action in the fight against climate change
ILN launches toolkit to support investors decarbonize portfolios The Investor Leadership Network (ILN) today released its latest report Climate Change Mitigation and your portfolio: Practical Tools for Investors. The report provides detailed guidance for...
CEO Panel Talk: Investing with Purpose
This Natixis Access Series features Charles Emond, President and CEO of CDPQ, Co-chair, ILN CEO Council Jean Raby, CEO of Natixis Investment Managers, Co-chair, ILN CEO Council and Amy Hepburn, CEO of ILN Secretariat. The panel share their insights on the role of the...
Investor Leadership Network takes a further step towards greater diversity in the investment industry
Chief Executive Officers of the Investor Leadership Network (ILN) held their second CEO Council on June 12, where they committed to work together on measures to increase diversity in the financial industry and capital markets. Recognizing the unprecedented impact of...
Jean Raby & Charles Emond Appointed Co-Chairs of the Investor Leadership Network CEO Council
Jean Raby, chef de la direction de Natixis Investment Managers et Charles Emond, président et chef de la direction de la Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec sont nommés coprésidents du Conseil des PDG du RLI. Amy Hepburn Designated as CEO of the Secretariat...