Pathways to maximize impact in public markets
The workshop will explore ways in which financial institutions can promote impact in public markets. Examples include engagement, investment strategies, asset classes, product disclosure and impact measurement. The workshop aims to equip stakeholders with the key concepts and approaches to promote impact in their own specific context. To this end, three keynote presentations will offer insights from a regulatory, an academic and a practitioner perspective. The main part of the event will consist of interactive table discussions on different impact channels and aspects of impact in public markets. These discussions will be led by experts from banks, asset managers, academia, NGOs, consultancies and government. This will give participants a detailed insight into a specific impact channel and allow them to derive actionable measures. Participants will also gain a comprehensive overview of impact investing in public markets.
Framing this topic
This short section provides context for the event to ensure all participants, regardless of prior knowledge, are equipped to engage with the discussion.
While there are major sustainability challenges, a significant finance gap exists in both public and private markets. With evolving EU and Swiss regulations, the topic of impact investments to tackle these challenges is gaining traction. Impact through public market investing remains, however, elusive. Traditional impact investing mainly targets private markets, while public markets struggle with a clear, evidence-based approach. Different levers have to be used and different pathways explored to maximize the potential impact that investors can have. Thus, our aim is to shed light on these levers and pathways and develop actionable outputs for all the various stakeholders involved.
