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Is vaccine nationalism undermining the global economic recovery?

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Bringing the pandemic to an end in 2022 Is vaccine nationalism undermining the global economic recovery? It has been 2 years since COVID-19 first struck, leaving a devastating trail in its wake. In the first 12 months of the pandemic, the global economy shrunk 3.2% while global trade is estimated to have fallen 5.3%. While 2021 has...

Aviva Investors House View Q1 2022

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Aviva Investors Above-trend growth, COVID-19, stubbornly high inflation, easing of emergency policy measures and climate change combine to create a heady cocktail of macro themes. Supply chain snarl-ups and China's new reorientation from an export powerhouse to a consumption-driven technology leader are also big themes to consider. Join Michael Grady, Head of Investment Strategy and...

Delivering a resilient, sustainable and strong economic recovery

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Placing the business sector at the centre of the rebuild Are businesses moving fast enough to deliver change? Governments and businesses are facing a world radically changed by COVID-19 but despite the best of intentions, recouping economic growth and social and environmental progress in the current uncertain context is not exempt from substantial challenges. This...

The growing case for responsible business education

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How can business schools encourage innovative approaches to further sustainable practices? As sustainability tops the commercial agenda, business schools are being urged to do more to integrate social and environmental topics into their courses, as well as foster diversity among their faculty and students. Are they succeeding? Often driven by student demand, schools have introduced...

Digital is now – Driving sustainable ‘Zero-Based’ operations in European banking

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How digital are you? The holy grail of ‘zero-based’ operations is now a key objective for Europe’s largest banks. In an ever-evolving digital landscape, incumbent banks aim to keep pace and embrace smart data management and resilient future systems. With core banking operations at the very centre of a complete digital transformation, how ready are...

Women In: The Tech Industry

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About Statistically, the tech world is dominated by men, but women have and continue to shape the industry profoundly – from innovative engineers and influential VCs to advocates raising awareness around ethical concerns like privacy and algorithmic bias. Join WSJ to hear from trailblazers across the spectrum about what it takes to build a career...

The Protein Transformation: A Critical Driver of the Net-Zero Economy

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The Protein Transformation: The global food system is one of the major drivers of carbon emissions, climate change, biodiversity loss, and depletion of freshwater resources. A dietary shift towards more plant-based food, and notably traditional plant-based and alternative proteins, may be key to significantly reduce these environmental impacts. We invite you to join MSCI and...

Navigating the challenges and opportunities for Investors in 2022

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Senior industry leaders will share their insights The pandemic, climate change and the global energy crisis have underscored the urgent need for governments and businesses to develop resilient and sustainable strategies to ‘build back better’. Investors must navigate a complex and fast-shifting global economy that continues to be impacted by new Covid variants.Growing consumer demand...

Will 2022 Finally Be The Year for Female Founders and Funders?

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AboutIt was a record year for female founders in 2021: Women raised roughly $40 billion, nearly doubling a record set in 2019. Women-led companies outperformed the market and found quicker "exits." What will 2022 bring? Barron’s hosts a conversation with investors Deena Shakir, partner at Lux Capital and Stacie Olivares, a former member of the...

Deciphering DeFi – Where Blockchain Meets Wall Street

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Could Aave, Uniswap, Compound, and other emerging cryptocurrencies represent the future of Wall Street? Join our Fintech interest group for an in-depth conversation on the disruptive potential of Decentralized Finance (DeFi)—applications on public blockchains aiming to create financial services without centralized intermediaries. A recent research report from Messari positions DeFi as a set of potential long-term, world-altering solutions to current...

Virtual Event – Confessions of a Recovering Climate Asset Owner

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Mats Andersson, former CEO of Swedish Pension Fund AP4 will share his vision as to how asset owners and manager can de-carbonize their portfolios, and still achieve alps. What will you learn? How to de-carbonize portfolios?What are the challenges for investors in de-carbonising?How can we scale investment addressing climate risk? Virtual Mixer to follow master...

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Bitcoin For Advisors

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ABOUT THE EVENT The goal of Bitcoin for Advisors is to equip investment advisors with tools to better understand bitcoin, talk to their clients about bitcoin and to work bitcoin into their business. We’re working closely with professional advisors to build out a program that is timely, valuable and actionable for the financial advisor community,...