Past Events – UKSIF

In June we were pleased to host Alternative Investment Week 2025.

Along with the UKSIF Alternative Investment Week Conference, which took place on June 17th, the week was filled with deep dive roundtables on Private Equity, Private Credit, Real Estate and Infrastructure. We also returned to the Barbican Conservatory for our annual Summer Drinks Reception.

The Alternative Investment Week Conference 2025 brochure can be seen here.

Photos from the conference can be found here and photos from the drinks reception can be found here.

Recordings of the sessions are now available to UKSIF members on the knowledge hub via the links below.

Opening Remarks and Keynote: Niamh Whooley
Panel: What Do Allocators and Alternative Investments
Case study: Building a cross border marketed private credit fund
Panel: Is current sustainability regulation fit for purpose in alternatives?

In May we returned to Dynamic Earth, Edinburgh for Spring Conference 2025.

It was a brilliant day with over 150 top-tier delegates, including asset managers, asset owners, banks, financial advisers and other UKSIF members. The full day of content covered diverse topics, from regulation and politics to sector breakdowns and the future of GB Energy.

The Spring Conference 2025 brochure can be seen here.

Photos from the day can be seen here.

Recordings of the sessions are now available to UKSIF members on the knowledge hub via the links below.

Opening remarks
Keynote: Kate Forbes MSP
Report Launch: Introduction
Report Launch: Panel
Panel: GB Energy: What opportunities does the future hold?
In conversation: Staying motivated in the current sustainability landscape.
In conversation: Water as a financially material risk
Panel: Regulatory update
In conversation: The Mansion House Push into Private Markets: Are private markets ready?
Panel: Climate metrics: getting the full picture
Panel: Climate adaptation

Thank you to our sponsors Impact Cubed, Scottish Widows, WeeFin for helping make this event a success.

We were please to host Ownership Day 2025 on March 6th 2025.

Sessions throughout the day included a keynote from David Russell, Chair of the Transition Pathway Initiative (TPI), the launch of UKSIF’s new report: Stranding: Modelling the UK’s Exposure to At-Risk Fossil Fuel Assets, the Stewardship Code, lining up UK policy for sustainable growth, the evolving regulatory landscape, pension consolidation, a shareholder resolution spotlight on Shell, and harnessing the power of the asset owner.

The Ownership Day 2025 brochure can be seen here.

Photos from the day can be seen here.

Recordings of the sessions are now available to UKSIF members on the knowledge hub via the links below.

Keynote: David Russell
Fireside Chat: Report Launch
Panel: The stewardship code
Panel: Enabling Investment: Lining up UK policy for sustainable growth
Fireside chat: The evolving regulatory landscape
Panel: Pension consolidation: What does it mean?
Shareholder Resolution spotlight: Shell
Fireside chat: Harnessing the power of the asset owner

Thank you to our sponsors FTSR Russell, an LSEG company, IFM Investors and Impact Cubed. You can find some thought leadership from our sponsors below:

LSEG Sustainability Policy Recommendations
IFM – Mobilising pension capital for net zero: a policy blueprint for the UK
Impact Cubed – Gender Equality: Materiality Check

We were pleased to host Leadership Summit 2024 in November.

Sessions throughout the day tackled succeeding under the new Government, ESG risks of mass AI adoption, why investors should be worried about marine biodiversity, what a sustainable finance system looks like, AI in building portfolios, and the view from the rising stars.

We were joined by Barry O’Dwyer, Chief Executive, Royal London Group for a fireside chat and heard keynotes from Emily Shepperd, Chief Operating Officer, FCA and Vanessa Havard-Williams, Chair, Transition Finance Market Review.

Photos from the day can be seen here.

Members can watch recordings of the sessions from the day on the Knowledge Hub, via the links below:
Welcome and Fireside Chat: Succeeding under the new Government
Keynote: Emily Shepperd
Fireside Chat: Barry O’Dwyer
AI in Building Portfolios
ESG Risk from Mass AI Adoption
What Does a Sustainable Finance System Look Like
Future Leaders: The View from the Rising Stars
Why Investors Should Be Worried About Marine Biodiversity
Keynote: Vanessa Havard-Williams

Thank you to our sponsors First Sentier MUFG Sustainable Investment Institute, Orbit Financial Technology and Verity for helping make this event possible.

UKSIF’s Good Money Week 2024 took place from 30 September to 06 October with the UKSIF conference taking place on 02 October.

UKSIF’s Good Money Week brings together different sectors of the financial services industry to consider how the industry can help the public make better choices with their pensions, savings and investments, and better understand the positive impact they can have on the environment and wider society when it comes to their financial decisions.

The UKSIF’s Good Money Week conference 2024 brochure can be seen here.

Photos from the conference can be seen here.

Members can view recordings of the sessions on the Knowledge Hub, via the links below.

Good Money Week conference 2024: Fireside chat: How to talk to your clients about sustainable investing
Good Money Week conference 2024: Keynote: Eva Cairns
Good Money Week 2024: Panel: The view from the front: What is the public saying?
Good Money Week 2024: Panel: The anti-greenwashing rule and SDR: are we any closer to solving the problem?
Good Money Week 2024: Fireside chat: Pensions Update
Good Money Week 2024: Keynote: Alicia Kedzierski
Good Money Week: Panel: Fund selection and divestment: How much autonomy should the public actually have?
Good Money Week 2024: Panel: What’s next? How do we get the public to care?

Thank you to our sponsors Greenbank and Liontrust for making this event possible.

In June we were pleased to host Alternative Investment Week Conference and the UKSIF Summer Drinks Reception.

Alternative Investment Week conference was targeted at alternative investors, including hedge funds, private equity, private credit, venture capital and real estate, and facilitated discussions on how alternatives can implement ESG into their strategies.

To wrap the day up, our members joined us in the Barbican Conservatory for the UKSIF Summer Drinks Reception 2024.

The Alternative Investment Week conference 2024 brochure can be seen here.

Photos from the conference can be seen here and photos from the drinks reception can be seen here.

Recordings of the conference sessions are now available to UKSIF members on the knowledge hub:

Opening remarks and Keynote: The US Election and Geopolitics
Sector Focus: Social Housing: how has the industry developed?
Fireside Chat: Aligning expectations: what do allocators want and how do you communicate it?
Sector Focus: The unique role of Private Equity in a sustainable finance system
The future of sustainability regulation for alternatives
An Election Looming: What do the manifestos say?
Sector Focus: Debt and sustainability-reliant ratcheting
Sector Focus: Venture Capital deal sourcing and sustainable value creation

Thank you to our sponsor Verity.

We were pleased to host Spring Conference 2024 in May.

It was a brilliant day with over 150 top-tier delegates, including asset managers, asset owners, banks, financial advisers and other UKSIF members. The full day of content covered diverse topics, from regulation and politics to investment strategies and sector breakdowns.

Spring Conference 2024 brochure can be seen here.

Photos from the day can be seen here.

Recordings of the sessions are now available to UKSIF members on the knowledge hub:

Opening Remarks and launch of UKSIF manifesto report
Biodiversity beyond the data
Unlocking investment into climate solutions
The challenges of regulatory implementation and the changing role of sustainability teams
Greening the Runway: the role of investors in a fast fashion landscape
Sustainable Food Systems
Insights into SDR application
Scotland’s role as a renewable powerhouse
Breaking out of the echo chamber and activating your organisation

Thank you to our sponsors Scottish Widows and Verity for helping make this event a success.

We were pleased to host Ownership Day 2024 in March.

Ownership Day is a long-standing UKSIF event celebrating the role of asset owners in driving forward the sustainable finance sector. This was a chance for pension funds, sovereign wealth funds, endowments, foundations, and other asset owners to discuss barriers to progress, solutions, and the regulatory landscape.

Sessions throughout the day aimed to ensure asset owners, and the wider financial services industry, is well versed in the latest developments and shares knowledge and experience across the industry to further advance the drive towards a sustainable future.

View the Ownership Day Brochure here.

View the photos from Ownership Day here.

Members can watch the recordings on our knowledge hub:

Thank you to our sponsors FTSE Russell, an LSEG Business and MSCI for helping to make this event a success.

We were pleased to host Leadership Summit 2023 in November.

This was a chance for our members to hear from exceptional speakers. The new Treasury Lords Minister, Baroness Vere, gave her first speech since taking office to open the conference, Sacha Sadan, director of ESG at the FCA promised that the launch of SDR wouldn’t ruin our Christmases, and Tulip Siddiq MP gave us her thoughts as Shadow Economic Secretary to the Treasury. As well as this, we had brilliant panels tackling topics like TNFD, Cop 28 and the oil and gas lobby, the future of the industry and much much more.

View the photos from Leadership Summit 2023 here

Members can watch the recordings on our knowledge hub:

Welcome and Keynote
Biodiversity
COP-Out?
Keynote: Sacha Sadan
What is the vision for sustainable finance regulation?
The Political Landscape
Keynote: Tulip Siddiq MP
What do the original sustainable finance pioneers see as the future?

Thank you to our sponsor Clarity AI for helping make this event possible.

We were pleased to host Good Money Week 2023 in October.

This was a chance to look at new research, discuss greenwashing and see how the most successful businesses are engaging the retail sector, talking about making green finance accessible to the public and implementing SDR.

You can view the agenda here.

Check out the photos from the Good Money Week conference here, and from the Good Money Week drinks reception here.

Members can watch the recordings on our knowledge hub:

Welcome and Opening Remarks
Fireside Chat: The Politics of Green Finance
Fireside chat: Scottish Widows: Annual Green Pensions Report
Keynote: Update from the FCA
SDR Implementation
The Greenwashing Problem
Making Green Finance Accessible to the Public

Thank you to our sponsors Liontrust and Man Group for helping make this event possible.

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