Explores how Swiss pensions capital can drive impact through private markets—across infrastructure, nature, and deep tech. Despite Switzerland’s capital strength, allocations to sustainable private market investments among Swiss pension funds remain cautious. So why aren’t we scaling? CFA Society Switzerland will put together a strong panel of experts from the Swiss pension funds scene, ESG Fintech and other industry stakeholders to spotlight solutions, break silos, and unlock hidden potential.
As nature-related risks reshape financial decision-making, addressing these challenges and unlocking opportunities is key to companies’ long-term resilience. Join us for a live demo of the ENCORE tool and its latest updates, empowering business and finance to assess their reliance on nature and kick-start their nature resilience journey. Discover new solutions to better integrate nature into business strategies, explore links to UNFCCC COP 30, and help shape ENCORE’s future functionalities.
Buildings are responsible for a quarter of Switzerland’s CO2 emissions. On a global scale, growing physical risks are causing financial losses, prompting the financial and insurance industry to adapt its practices. At this event, we discuss with real estate specialists and investors, politicians and insurance representatives about existing and emerging risks as well as adapted frameworks globally and in Switzerland.
In these uncertain times, your family office can deploy impact as a risk mitigation tool for the future. How do wealth holders think about impact, structure their processes to build and run future-fit families offices? How do they incorporate a systems lens? Hear key learnings shared by X, family office principal Y and next gen Z. In small breakout groups we discuss the challenges and opportunities for your own family office so you go home with takeaways that you can start implementing tomorrow.
This session showcases the first fixed income index to cover the whole fossil fuel chain, providing objective criteria needed to drive down real-world emissions through changing flows of capital. The session will inform participants about the index content and focus on the unique build process, held between academia, index provider and asset owners. An Open Space format will support participants to learn from this ‘systems demonstrator’ and apply it to their own collaborative solution-building.
Mobilizing the trillions needed to solve social and environmental challenges requires a strong pipeline of bankable projects. Despite growing fund availability, institutional investors hesitate without proven models. This session presents a structured, replicable venture-building approach that aligns funders’ interests from inception to scale, unlocking impact finance. Experts will share case studies, lessons, and strategies for bridging philanthropy, public, and institutional capital.
Inequality creates system-level costs and risks that undermine investor returns by slowing productivity growth, reducing economic dynamism and undermining stability. Investors are increasingly focused on stewardship to address these risks. This session explores investor information needs, effective system stewardship, the connection between individual company impacts and portfolio performance, and the role of disclosures, where TISFD aims to enhance decision-useful information.
Regenerative practices can reduce the environmental impact of our global food system, but financing this transition at scale is still a major challenge. Our joint session at Building Bridges 2025, will cover the current financing bottlenecks for companies and growers, explore solutions, and share successful case studies.
There is clear evidence of how physical impacts are damaging businesses and value chains, but companies and investors have insufficient visibility on the risks that can cause business interruption and financial losses. This workshop will discuss a framework that incorporates identification, measurement, strategy development, execution, monitoring, and reporting and disclosure to build resilience. Discussion will be solutions-focused, cutting across climate, nature, equity and circularity.
The session spotlights innovative finance models (blended and beyond) for regenerative agriculture and related market infrastructure – from digital trade platforms to decentralized hubs. Based on real-world cases and collaborations across Europe and globally, the panel highlights infrastructure required to scale regenerative systems, investable opportunities, and data-driven risk mitigation. Leading stakeholders from finance, policy, corporates and local actors will share their insights.