#51: Pensions for Purpose – SCI and Systemic Risks

On 13 February, System Change Investing (SCI) will present at a Pensions for Purpose event, called Navigating systemic risks: the role of institutional investors in building a stable economic future

The longer-term investment horizon of pension funds makes climate change and other environmental and social challenges highly relevant. A growing number of organizations are researching the financial impacts of these issues on pensions and other institutional investors.

Climate change often is described as a systemic risk. However, it also could be called a symptomatic risk. The true systemic risks are the economic and political systems that create climate change and other Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) problems.

These systems often make it impossible for companies to stop harming the environment and society and remain in business. Without system change, it will be impossible to resolve climate change and other SDG challenges.

As a result, Charlotte O'Leary, CEO of Pensions for Purpose, has made system change a main focus of the organization.

SCI uses investing to effectively address the root causes of major challenges (i.e. flawed systems). This is essential for full investment risk mitigation.

Investment strategies that do not address system change and root causes leave pensions vulnerable to rising environmental and social challenges, and the growing negative financial impacts they inevitably will have on investors and companies.

The 13 February event will discuss how SCI provides a true full investment risk mitigation strategy.

For more information about the event, see here.

For more information about SCI, visit our website SystemChangeInvesting.com or listen to this recent SCI podcast.