29 June 2021 - Impact Investing Adopters Forum - Principle 2 - Appoint investment consultants and managers with impact integrity - Impact Investing Institute, Pensions for Purpose and Barnett Waddingham

Introduced by Jamie Broderick from the Impact Investing Institute and moderated by Pensions for Purpose's CEO, Charlotte O'Leary, this virtual investor roundtable was hosted by Amanda Latham, Strategy & Policy Lead, and Alex Pocock, Head of Investment Consulting, from Barnett Waddingham, one of our first investment consultant adopters.

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... This quarterly Impact Investing Adopters Forum event focused on Principle 2 of the Impact Investing Principles for Pensions - 'Appoint investment consultants and managers with impact integrity’.
 
Introduced by Jamie Broderick from the Impact Investing Institute and moderated by Pensions for Purpose's CEO, Charlotte O'Leary, this virtual investor roundtable was hosted by Amanda Latham, Strategy & Policy Lead, and Alex Pocock, Head of Investment Consulting, from Barnett Waddingham, one of our first investment consultant adopters.
 
The session focused on how you go about ensuring your investment consultant and managers align with your impact objectives:
  • How do you build impact into the appointment and review of investment consultants and managers? What should you be asking and what are the red flags?
  • How will they bring you new investment ideas that relate to social and environmental impact?
  • What are their stewardship policies, do they offer split voting, customised services?
  • What are the measurement frameworks they use?
  • How are they incentivised?
Barnett Waddingham unpacked these questions through their presentation, followed by a moderated Q&A session with participants where they drew out the key challenges and solutions in finding third-party providers with impact integrity.