What Do the Very Real Current Geopolitical & Macro Risks Mean for your Investment and Sustainability Strategy?

Date:

8 April 2025 15:30 to 18:30

Venue:

Stadtskasteel Oudaen, Oudegracht 99, 3511 AE Utrecht

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Chairperson:

Bruno de Haas, Strategist, PNO Media Pension Fund and a Member of the Pensioen Investment Forum Advisory Committee

Details:

The impact of Trump’s trade policies and tariffs with increased nationalism and pressures to invest locally and in certain sectors/industries?
Should institutional investors have an active policy towards home bias/locally focused investment, and what are the risks and opportunities?
How would the financial system and different asset classes react to a negative shock?
US vs European ESG perspectives and the US backlash
How will the ‘anti ESG’ and ‘anti DEI’ movements impact specific sectors, industries, indices and stock returns?
Should schemes and boards give into such political pressures of investing?
Just how should schemes and institutional investors balance various pressures to invest in a particular way, while ensuring they deliver on their own objectives and generate robust risk adjusted returns for their members?