Thursday 1st November 2007, London

UKSIF's Anne Desgagniers


Conference notebook (page 3)

Programme

8.45: Welcome refreshment
9.00: Opening address

CSR and the responsible investor
9.10: David Pitt-Watson, non-executive director of Hermes Focus Asset Management and co-author of the 'New Capitalists', argued responsible investors should not separate matters of corporate social responsibility from those of financial return in boardroom conversations.

10.00: Refreshments

Eastern Europe
10.20: Geoffrey Mazullo, managing director of the PFS Program, assessed the opportunities and challenges the eastern expansion of the European Union offers to responsible investors.
10.50: Adam de Sola Pool, chief investment officer of Environmental Investment Partners, provided the expert perspective of a leading investor in environmental companies in the region.

Emerging markets
11.40: Marc Brammer, senior analyst at rating agency Innovest, shed light on how responsible investors should understand and quantify the issues involved in investing in emerging markets.

12.20: Buffet lunch

Microfinance
13:30: Peter Johnson, partner at Developing World Markets, outlined why and how large institutional investors have begun to embrace microfinance.
14.00: Scott Budde, managing director of the $380 billion TIAA-CREF pension fund, described the development of its microfinance investment programme.

14:50: Tea, coffee and juice

Private equity
15.10: Buchan Scott, a partner at Duke Street Capital, a European buyout specialist, explored the notion of responsible private equity.
15.40: Matt Christensen, executive director of the European Social Investment Forum (Eurosif), investigated the scope and size of responsible venture capital in Europe.

Corporate responsibility and pensions
16.30: Anne Desgagniers from the UK Social Investment Forum outlined the findings of a new survey of company pension funds and their compliance with corporate responsibility policies and made the case for change.

17:30 Conference ended