The Impact Seminar Series – UK is tailored to institutional investors and asset owners based in England, Scotland, Northern Ireland and Wales. It consists of a one-day programme with keynote speeches, investor connect sessions, an investor panel discussion and fireside chat, touching upon the challenges and opportunities within the impact investing universe.
Institutional investors and impact fund managers will be able to exchange best practices, learn from each other’s experiences, and share ideas on creating innovative and scalable solutions to generate impact in private and public markets. During the InvestorConnect sessions, investors can explore a select group of impact strategies in public equity, public debt, private equity, private debt and real assets.
WHY ATTEND
Impact Investing Event for Institutional Investors
We believe in the power of impact investing and the role financial actors play in solving the most pressing issues of our time. Join us on a deep-dive discussion about the relevance of catalysing capital to impact investments and the challenges encompassed in a long-term value creation vision and short-term profit and return maximisation whilst dealing with climate change.
ADVISORY BOARD 2022:
- This programme was developed with the support of:
Charlotte O’Leary, CEO, Pensions for Purpose
Evita Zanuso, Head of Strategic Partnerships, Katapult Foundation Karen Shackleton, Founder, Pensions for Purpose
Jamie Broderick, Board Member, Impact Investing Institute
SUPPORTING ORGANISATIONS 2022:
OBJECTIVES
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INFORM
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The Seminar aims to allow institutional investors to share knowledge through discussions about the opportunities and challenges of impact investments in public and private markets.
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CONNECT
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Investors and fund managers will be able to reconnect with industry peers, learn from each other’s experiences and share ideas on creating innovative and scalable solutions to generate impact in private and public markets.
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DISCOVER
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InvestorConnect sessions offer institutional asset owners an efficient way to discover a pre-screened group of scalable impact strategies of institutional quality, across multiple asset classes, impact themes and the SDGs. The dynamic system of 15-minute meetings set a comfortable space to ask relevant questions & create connections along the way.
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FEATURED SPEAKERS 2022
David Lanning
Head of Research - Next Generation Fund,Arisaig Partners
Evita Zanuso
Head of Strategic Partnerships & Lead Impact Investing Academy,Katapult Foundation
Jamie Broderick
Director,Impact Investing Institute
Karen Shackleton
Director and Chair of the Board,Pensions for Purpose
Katie Fulford-Smith
Impact Investment ProfessionalBig Society Capital
Maria Rapin
CEO Nephila Climate,Nephila Advisors
Sofia Bartholdy
Net Zero Lead,Church Commissioners for England
Chantal Hermans
COO,Phenix Capital Group

David Lanning
Head of Research - Next Generation Fund,
Arisaig Partners
David joined Arisaig in 2010 in Singapore, before moving to Rio de Janeiro in 2011 as part of the Latin America investment team and has been primarily based in London since 2015. David has been leading our research into impact investments since 2018. This built on his previous role as Head of Thematic Research where he led research projects on new disruptive business models in emerging markets. He is a graduate of Oxford and Bristol Universities, with a First Class degree in Hispanic Studies and an MSc in Latin American Studies.

Evita Zanuso
Head of Strategic Partnerships & Lead Impact Investing Academy,
Katapult Foundation
Evita is Head of Strategic Partnerships and also leads on the Impact Academy at Katapult Foundation. Prior to Katapult Foundation, she was part of the Senior Management team at Big Society Capital, a leading UK social impact investor where she co-led the product development of the world's first multi-asset high impact investment trust Schroder BSC Social Impact Trust on the London Stock Exchange. She has served on a number of Boards including on the Impact Investing Advisory Group at British Private Equity and Venture Capital Association (BVCA), Board Director of RCB plc, a platform that issues charity bonds on the London Stock Exchange, Board Observer on Bethnal Green Ventures, a tech for good accelerator and impact fund. She is Vice Chair of the CFA UK’s Impact and Investing panel, developing the CFA’s impact investing qualification, a Steering Group member of Women in Social Finance and a Member of the Community Grants Committee (Impact-first investments) at Dunhill Medical Trust.

Jamie Broderick
Director,
Impact Investing Institute
Jamie Broderick is a director of the Impact Investing Institute, an independent, non-profit UK organisation that aims to accelerate the growth and improve the effectiveness of the impact investing market. The Institute is supported by the UK's Government Inclusive Economy Unit, the City of London Corporation, and a number of financial services organisations in the UK. Jamie was head of UBS Wealth Management in the UK from 2013-2017. Jamie joined UBS after nineteen years at J.P. Morgan Asset Management, latterly as Chief Executive of its European operations. He joined J.P. Morgan in New York in 1993 and moved to London in 1996. He started his financial services career at Wellington Management Company, an independent asset management partnership in Boston. He studied Arabic Linguistics and Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations at Harvard College and continued those studies in a Ph.D. program at the University of Chicago.

Karen Shackleton
Director and Chair of the Board,
Pensions for Purpose
Karen has worked in the finance sector for over 30 years. As well as being Founder of Pensions for Purpose, she is Deputy Chair of the Strategic Investment Board for the Ministry of Justice and a non-executive director and Chair of the Board of Resonance Ltd, a social impact investment company. She sits on the Advisory Council of the Impact Investing Institute.Karen also provides independent investment advice to the London Boroughs of Islington, Camden and Hounslow through MJ Hudson. She was the Chief Executive/Managing Director of AllenbridgeEpic Investment Advisers from 2010 to 2013. Prior to that, she had ten years’ experience as a fund manager and director for County NatWest and BZW Investment Management (now BlackRock).

Sofia Bartholdy
Net Zero Lead,
Church Commissioners for England
Sofia joined the Church Commissioners for England as Net Zero Lead in June 2022. Her responsibilities include developing and implementing a strategy to meet the Commissioners’ Net Zero by 2050 target as well as working with the investment teams to monitor external asset managers’ RI practices and sustainability outcomes of the underlying portfolio across ESG themes and asset classes.

Chantal Hermans
COO,
Phenix Capital Group
Chantal Hermans is the head of events & publications at Phenix Capital Group, leading the events & marcomm team. Chantal started her career at Management Events, working with C-level executives across industries. In 2014 she moved to London and started working for financial publisher Euromoney Institutional Investors as an investor relations manager. Here she was responsible for building relationships with the key financial players in the Benelux, UK and Eastern Europe. Next to her IR role, she was also responsible for building the European network for the II conferences. In 2018, Chantal joined EQDerivatives as Executive Director of machineByte. A platform focused on delivering education around machine learning and AI in the investment industry. Her passion for sustainability and building a better world brought her to Phenix Capital Group, where she can fully focus on delivering education on impact investing and helping the industry move forward.
BOOK YOUR SEAT AMONGST YOUR LOCAL IMPACT INVESTING PEERS!
A LIMITED NUMBER OF COMPLIMENTARY INVITES ARE AVAILABLE FOR INSTITUTIONAL INVESTORS AND ASSET OWNERS.
WHO WILL ATTEND
This event is catered for C-Suite, Board Members, Portfolio Managers and ESG/Impact Investing officers of:
● Public and Corporate Pension Funds and their Fiduciary Managers,
● Insurance Companies,
● Sovereign Wealth Funds,
● Family Offices,
● Foundations and Endowments,
● Wealth Managers/Private Banks,
● Development Finance Institutions,
● Faith-based Organisations.
● Public and Corporate Pension Funds and their Fiduciary Managers,
● Insurance Companies,
● Sovereign Wealth Funds,
● Family Offices,
● Foundations and Endowments,
● Wealth Managers/Private Banks,
● Development Finance Institutions,
● Faith-based Organisations.
VENUE 2022
THE LAW SOCIETY
113 Chancery Ln,
London, United Kingdom