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Praise for our events
Clear Profit '08
"I found the event to be very interesting and thought-provoking," Mark Smyth, Royal Bank of Scotland
Clear Profit '07
"Your event was wonderful, bringing together a great group of people," Matt Christensen, executive director, European Social Investment Forum (Eurosif)
"That was fantastic," senior communications director
"A very useful conference," SRI research director
"Excellent speakers," NGO director
"Most illuminating,"
investment magazine editor
"A wonderful conference," anon
"Excellent speakers," national financial regulator
"It entirely satisfied my reasons for coming," anon
Clear Profit '06
"An excellent opportunity to meet with key players in corporate responsibility and responsible investment,"
Alex van der Velden, Executive Director, FairPensions
"Very stimulating,"
Philippe Legrain, journalist & commentator
"I enjoyed the session," Baroness Gibson of Market Rasen
"I really enjoyed the whole day," Franziska Jahn, senior research analyst, EIRIS
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
