Sarah Fromson is Chair of the Cambridge University Endowment Fund Investment Advisory Board. She also holds a number of other Non Executive Board roles, including at the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, Quilter Investors, Capital Generation Partners among others. She spent 11 years as head of Investment Risk at the Wellcome Trust and prior to that was a Chief Investment Risk Officer at RBS Asset Management.
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272. Jennifer Devine of Wiltshire: Sustainable Investing, Stakeholder Engagement and Lessons in Chemistry
Jennifer Devine is Head of Wiltshire Pension Fund, and a thought leader in the field of sustainable investing. I was thrilled to welcome her to the podcast in order to capture some of the vision that she implements at Wiltshire and translates for its members in easy to understand and relatable posts on social media and their home page that highlight concrete examples of impact investments.
Episode 230: John Teahan of Redwheel: Climate Engagement Investing without Reinventing the Wheel
John Teahan is a portfolio manager at Redwheel, which is focused on value oriented UK and global equity funds where he leads on engagement and responsible investing. The firm was formerly known as RWC Partners.
312. Debby Blakey of Hesta: How a Gutsy Advocate Delivers Impact for its Members
Debby Blakey is CEO of Hesta a $91 bn AUD Australian superannuation fund dedicated to the health and community services sector. She is also President of the Australian Council of Superannuation Investors and a director of the International Corporate Governance Network (ICGN).
Series 3 of 2025 – Trailer – The Gutsy Advocates who Run their own Race
We are delighted to bring you Series 3 of our 2025 series, which we again are launching amid significant volatility in markets. However, as you will hear, the more things change, the more they stay the same. We start this series down under, hearing from Debby Blakey, CEO of Hesta, who describes what it means to be a “Super with Impact”, and a gutsy advocate for a fair and healthy community.
Series 1 of 2025 – Trailer: Why the Devil is in the Detail.
This summary is less a trailer than a highlight reel. The year started with a new administration in the US and an explosion of the culture wars and backlash against DEI and ESG labelling. Even engagement has become more cumbersome and some may feel the hard won policies of years ago are going into reverse. Because we had lined up a list of industry experts with a focus on sustainable investing for this series, we had an excellent opportunity to ask them about the headwinds and the view of them.
294. Anastasia Guha of Redington – Sustainable Investing’s Future – Towards Relevance and Saliency
Anastasia Guha is a sustainable investing expert at Redington with over 17 years of experience. She advises on sustainable investing strategy and beliefs, best practices for integrating ESG factors into investment projects, engagement and ESG reporting and measurement.
285. Lindsey Stewart of Morningstar Sustainanalytics: on Moon Shots – large and small
Lindsey Stewart is Director of Stewardship Research and Policy at Morningstar Sustainanalytics, where he is a sustainability and governance specialist. Based in London he writes regularly about how institutional investors engage with companies and policymakers on environmental, social and governance themes and is a regular speaker on these topics. He previously was head of Stakeholder Engagement at the Financial Reporting Council and spent 8 years at KPMG in various engagement roles.
32. Dani D’Amico, Partner at McKinsey: Running, Risk Management and letting Authenticity Reign
Dani D’Amico is a partner at McKinsey in their financial services practice. She has previously worked in the Inclusion, Diversity and Belonging Engagement practice at Oliver Wyman in New York, where she was also a partner, and started her career in various consulting roles.
Bonus Series 2023 – Trailer
If you have heard the term abundance of riches, that is what we have been experiencing this year in terms of our guests. So we are very pleased to bring you this bonus series, sponsored by Sound Mark Partners, a women led real estate debt firm that exemplifies so much of what we endorse and promote in the investment industry. We learn about accidental career paths, innovative strategies such as funds focused on positive change, climate engagement, GP-led private equity secondaries and carbon credit trading.