The corporate world is all about purpose this year, with a multitude of advisors, think tanks, and academics on hand to offer their views. The background is a rift between business and wider society, one that threatens to undermine what is good about markets, as well as calling attention to what is not. There is a sense that parts of the corporate world have become largely detached from the societies on which they ultimately depend...
If there was ever any question as to whether we value human life more than money, the coronavirus pandemic has surely answered it.
The protection of ordinary people, in this country and indeed in almost every country in the world, has come at an extraordinary economic cost. Yet only a minority of people have dared to suggest that this was too high a price to pay. Life has intrinsic value.
With keynote from Emmanuel Faber, Chair, International Sustainability Standards Board (ISSB)
Plenary - Leading with purpose: asset owner expectations for the next 10 years
New climate commitments, greater reporting expectations and tighter manager monitoring are changing the relationship between asset owners and asset managers.
David discusses key themes in The Social Licence for Financial Markets.
In order to reorient financial markets towards social goods we need to change perceptions of finance. David Rouch tells Daybreak Europe's Roger Hearing and Caroline Hepker that regulation has a place, but so too does a recognition of finance's social purpose.
