Podcasts about Royal London Asset Management

Susannah and Sarah break down last week's Autumn Budget, diving into its potential impact on savers, investors, and pensions. They cover key topics like inheritance tax changes and their effect on pensions and AIM investments, capital gains tax hikes, employer national insurance adjustments, and the freezing of income tax thresholds. They'll also look at how the speech influenced markets and the confusion around possible changes to pension tax-free cash, which has left many facing a financial headache. Emma Wall, our head of investment analysis and research, speaks with Henry Lowson from Royal London Asset Management. And Matt Britzman, senior equity analyst at HL, tells us which stocks to keep an eye on following the Chancellor's budget. This podcast isn't personal advice. If you're not sure what's right for you, seek advice. Investments rise and fall in value, so investors could make a loss. Tax rules can change and any benefits depend on your personal circumstances. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Guest: Alex Edmans: Author of ‘May Contain Lies'. Alex Edmans is Professor of Finance at London Business School. Alex has a PhD from MIT as a Fulbright Scholar, and was previously a tenured professor at Wharton and an investment banker at Morgan Stanley. Alex has spoken at the World Economic Forum in Davos, testified in the UK Parliament, and given the TED talk What to Trust in a Post-Truth World and the TEDx talks The Pie-Growing Mindset and The Social Responsibility of Business with a combined 2.8 million views. He serves as non-executive director of the Investor Forum, on the World Economic Forum's Global Future Council on Responsible Investing, on Royal London Asset Management's Responsible Investment Advisory Committee, and on Novo Nordisk's Sustainability Advisory Council. Alex's book, Grow the Pie: How Great Companies Deliver Both Purpose and Profit, was a Financial Times Book of the Year and has been translated into nine languages, and he is a co-author of Principles of Corporate Finance (with Brealey, Myers, and Allen). He has won 25 teaching awards at Wharton and LBS and was named Professor of the Year by Poets & Quants in 2021. He is a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences. His latest book, May Contain Lies: How Stories, Statistics, and Studies Exploit Our Biases – And What We Can Do About It was published by Penguin Random House in April 2024. Join us as we discuss what to trust in a post-truth world Host: Jo Moffatt

Guest: Alex Edmans: Author of ‘May Contain Lies'. Alex Edmans is Professor of Finance at London Business School. Alex has a PhD from MIT as a Fulbright Scholar, and was previously a tenured professor at Wharton and an investment banker at Morgan Stanley. Alex has spoken at the World Economic Forum in Davos, testified in the UK Parliament, and given the TED talk What to Trust in a Post-Truth World and the TEDx talks The Pie-Growing Mindset and The Social Responsibility of Business with a combined 2.8 million views. He serves as non-executive director of the Investor Forum, on the World Economic Forum's Global Future Council on Responsible Investing, on Royal London Asset Management's Responsible Investment Advisory Committee, and on Novo Nordisk's Sustainability Advisory Council. Alex's book, Grow the Pie: How Great Companies Deliver Both Purpose and Profit, was a Financial Times Book of the Year and has been translated into nine languages, and he is a co-author of Principles of Corporate Finance (with Brealey, Myers, and Allen). He has won 25 teaching awards at Wharton and LBS and was named Professor of the Year by Poets & Quants in 2021. He is a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences. His latest book, May Contain Lies: How Stories, Statistics, and Studies Exploit Our Biases – And What We Can Do About It was published by Penguin Random House in April 2024. Join us as we discuss what to trust in a post-truth world Listen Live (Archive Available) Host: Jo Moffatt

Alex Edmans discusses with Ivan six things which should be less well known. Alex's new book is May Contain Lies, about misinformation, and so, in a reversal of the usual format, he discusses six ideas and beliefs which have been overexposed. Alex Edmans is Professor of Finance at London Business School. Alex has a PhD from MIT as a Fulbright Scholar, and was previously a tenured professor at Wharton and an investment banker at Morgan Stanley. Alex has spoken at the World Economic Forum in Davos, testified in the UK Parliament, and given the TED talk What to Trust in a Post-Truth World and the TEDx talks The Pie-Growing Mindset and The Social Responsibility of Business with a combined 2.8 million views. He serves as non-executive director of the Investor Forum, on the World Economic Forum's Global Future Council on Responsible Investing, on Royal London Asset Management's Responsible Investment Advisory Committee, and on Novo Nordisk's Sustainability Advisory Council. Alex's book, Grow the Pie: How Great Companies Deliver Both Purpose and Profit, was a Financial Times Book of the Year and has been translated into nine languages, and he is a co-author of Principles of Corporate Finance (with Brealey, Myers, and Allen). His latest book is May Contain Lies: How Stories, Statistics, and Studies Exploit Our Biases – And What We Can Do About It, available at https://www.ucpress.edu/book/9780520403932/may-contain-lies. His six things which should be less well-known are: Mothers should exclusively breast-feed their babies You can be an expert in anything if you devote 10,000 hours to it Starting with why is the secret to success Diverse teams always perform better More information makes you more informed Grit is more important than IQ in driving achievement This podcast is powered by ZenCast.fm

May Contain Lies: How Stories, Statistics, and Studies Exploit Our Biases―And What We Can Do about It by Alex Edmans https://amzn.to/3V02O31 How our biases cause us to fall for misinformation—and how to combat it. Our lives are minefields of misinformation. It ripples through our social media feeds, our daily headlines, and the pronouncements of politicians, executives, and authors. Stories, statistics, and studies are everywhere, allowing people to find evidence to support whatever position they want. Many of these sources are flawed, yet by playing on our emotions and preying on our biases, they can gain widespread acceptance, warp our views, and distort our decisions. In this eye-opening book, renowned economist Alex Edmans teaches us how to separate fact from fiction. Using colorful examples—from a wellness guru's tragic but fabricated backstory to the blunders that led to the Deepwater Horizon disaster to the diet that ensnared millions yet hastened its founder's death—Edmans highlights the biases that cause us to mistake statements for facts, facts for data, data for evidence, and evidence for proof. Armed with the knowledge of what to guard against, he then provides a practical guide to combat this tide of misinformation. Going beyond simply checking the facts and explaining individual statistics, Edmans explores the relationships between statistics—the science of cause and effect—ultimately training us to think smarter, sharper, and more critically. May Contain Lies is an essential read for anyone who wants to make better sense of the world and better About the author Alex Edmans is Professor of Finance at London Business School. Alex has a PhD from MIT as a Fulbright Scholar, and was previously a tenured professor at Wharton and an investment banker at Morgan Stanley. Alex has spoken at the World Economic Forum in Davos, testified in the UK Parliament, and given the TED talk “What to Trust in a Post-Truth World” and the TEDx talks “The Pie-Growing Mindset” and “The Social Responsibility of Business” with a combined 2.8 million views. He serves as non-executive director of the Investor Forum, on the World Economic Forum's Global Future Council on Responsible Investing, and on Royal London Asset Management's Responsible Investment Advisory Committee. Alex's book, “Grow the Pie: How Great Companies Deliver Both Purpose and Profit”, was a Financial Times Book of the Year for 2020 and has been translated into nine languages, and he is a co-author of “Principles of Corporate Finance” (with Brealey, Myers, and Allen). He has won 25 teaching awards at Wharton and LBS and was named Professor of the Year by Poets & Quants in 2021. His latest book, "May Contain Lies: How Stories, Statistics, and Studies Exploit Our Biases – And What We Can Do About It" will be published by Penguin Random House in April 2024.

How prevalent are psychological biases like confirmation bias and black-and-white in your thinking? Listen to Jason Mitchell discuss with Professor Alex Edmans, London Business School, about why misinformation is a problem that affects us all; how we can counter it through more critical, rigorous analysis; and what it means for the world of sustainable investing. Alex Edmans is Professor of Finance at London Business School. Alex serves as non-executive director of the Investor Forum, on the World Economic Forum's Global Future Council on Responsible Investing, on Royal London Asset Management's Responsible Investment Advisory Committee, and on Novo Nordisk's Sustainability Advisory Council. Alex's book, Grow the Pie: How Great Companies Deliver Both Purpose and Profit, was a Financial Times Book of the Year and has been translated into nine languages, and he is a co-author of Principles of Corporate Finance (with Brealey, Myers, and Allen). He is a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences. His latest book, May Contain Lies: How Stories, Statistics, and Studies Exploit Our Biases – And What We Can Do About It comes out in April 2024.

In a “post-truth” world, who should we trust? According to Alex Edmans, one of the UK's hottest business school professors, you should trust him enough to read his new book, May Contain Lies: How Stories, Statistics and Studies Exploit Our Biases - And What We Can Do About It. You should also trust me enough to listen to and/or watch this conversation with Edmans, but not enough to believe everything that I say. For example, describing Alex as one of the UK's “hottest” business school professors could be an exaggeration. It might even be a lie.Alex Edmans is Professor of Finance at London Business School.  Alex graduated from Oxford University and then worked for Morgan Stanley in investment banking (London) and fixed income sales and trading (New York).  After a PhD in Finance from MIT Sloan as a Fulbright Scholar, he joined Wharton in 2007 and was tenured in 2013 shortly before moving to LBS. Alex's research interests are in corporate finance, responsible business and behavioural finance.  He is a Director of the American Finance Association, Vice President-Elect of the Western Finance Association, Fellow, Director, and Chair of the Ethics Committee of the Financial Management Association, and a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences. From 2017-2022 he was Managing Editor of the Review of Finance, the leading academic finance journal in Europe.  Alex has spoken at the World Economic Forum in Davos, testified in the UK Parliament, presented to the World Bank Board of Directors as part of the Distinguished Speaker Series, and given the TED talk What to Trust in a Post-Truth World and the TEDx talks The Pie-Growing Mindset and The Social Responsibility of Business with a combined 2.8 million views. He has written for the Wall Street Journal, Financial Times, Harvard Business Review and World Economic Forum and been interviewed by Bloomberg, BBC, CNBC, CNN, ESPN, Fox, ITV, NPR, Reuters, Sky News, and Sky Sports.  Alex serves as a Non-Executive Director of The Investor Forum, on the World Economic Forum's Global Future Council on the Future of Responsible Investing, on Royal London Asset Management's Responsible Investment Advisory Committee, and on Novo Nordisk's Sustainability Advisory Council. The UK government appointed him (jointly with PwC) to study the alleged misuse of share buybacks and the link between executive pay and investment. Alex previously served as Mercers' School Memorial Professor of Business at Gresham College, giving a four-year programme of lectures to the public. His series were on The Principles of Finance (2021/2), The Psychology of Finance (2020/1), Business Skills for the 21st Century (2019/20) and How Business Can Better Serve Society (2018/9). Alex's book, Grow the Pie: How Great Companies Deliver Both Purpose and Profit, was featured in the Financial Times Best Business Books of 2020 and won the Financial Times award for Excellence in Sustainable Finance Education; it has been or is being translated into Arabic, Chinese, French, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Russian, and Turkish. He is a co-author of the 14th edition of Principles of Corporate Finance (with Brealey, Myers, and Allen). His latest book, May Contain Lies: How Stories, Statistics, and Studies Exploit Our Biases – And What We Can Do About It, will be published by Penguin Random House in 2024. Alex was named Professor of the Year by Poets & Quants in 2021. He has won 25 teaching awards at Wharton and LBS, won the Finance for the Future award for Driving Change in the finance community, and featured in Thinkers50 Radar.Named as one of the "100 most connected men" by GQ magazine, Andrew Keen is amongst the world's best known broadcasters and commentators. In addition to presenting KEEN ON, he is the host of the long-running How To Fix Democracy show. He is also the author of four prescient books about digital technology: CULT OF THE AMATEUR, DIGITAL VERTIGO, THE INTERNET IS NOT THE ANSWER and HOW TO FIX THE FUTURE. Andrew lives in San Francisco, is married to Cassandra Knight, Google's VP of Litigation & Discovery, and has two grown children.Keen On is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit keenon.substack.com/subscribe

Much of the world's population will be going to the polls for elections in the coming years. But should advisers or their clients react to the politics, either by viewing it as a chance for profit or a threat requiring evasive action.Joining FT Adviser investment editor David Thorpe to discuss the topic are Sunil Krishnan, head of multi-asset funds at Aviva Investors; Hugh Gimber, market strategist at JP Morgan; and Hiroki Hashimoto, senior multi-asset fund manager at Royal London Asset Management. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

What impact do the biases you hold have on your work?Living and working in a more critical manner allows you to be more informed and less impacted by bias. This can have positive impacts on your work and those around you, just by challenging yourself to think differently.In this episode I am joined by Alex Edmans, author of May Contain Lies. He shares his deep knowledge of bias and how to think smarter and more critically. He discusses how he uses this within personal aspects of his life too.Are you confusing correlation with causation? A statement with a fact? Evidence with proof?This episode is full of practical advice you can use in your projects or meetings. Or even when listening to the news, to become more aware of what could be misinformation.“Misinformation affects our professional and personal lives” – Alex EdmansYou'll hear about:Which are the most harmful biases?How pervasive are biases?Does Alex make gut decisions still?Business and the ladder of inferenceUsing these ideas in practiceIs doing less better?Looking at specifics vs broad dataHow to challenge people with ill-informed viewsHow to inspire more debate and dissentManaging himself with other's critical thinkingWhat Alex's best days look likeAbout Alex EdmansAlex Edmans is Professor of Finance at London Business School. He has a PhD from MIT as a Fulbright Scholar, and was previously a tenured professor at Wharton and an investment banker at Morgan Stanley. He has spoken at the World Economic Forum in Davos, testified in the UK Parliament, and given the TED talk “What to Trust in a Post-Truth World” and the TEDx talks “The Pie-Growing Mindset” and “The Social Responsibility of Business” with a combined 2.8 million views. He is a non-executive director of the Investor Forum, on the World Economic Forum's Global Future Council on Responsible Investing, and on Royal London Asset Management's Responsible Investment Advisory Committee. He has won 25 teaching awards at Wharton and LBS and was named Professor of the Year by Poets & Quants in 2021. His resources:•Profile: https://www.linkedin.com/in/aedmans/ •Book: www.maycontainlies.com  •Resources and research: www.alexedmans.com My resources:Find out more about my new venture, Strategy Shift (https://bit.ly/3TMvj3y)Take my new Becoming a Strategic Leader course (https://bit.ly/3KJYDTj)Sign up to my Strategic Leader newsletter (http://bit.ly/36WRpri) for stimuli, ideas, guidance and tips on how to lead your team, organisation or self more effectively, delivered straight to your inbox:Subscribe to my YouTube channel (http://bit.ly/3cFGk1k) where you can watch the conversation.Take the Extraordinary Essentials test (https://bit.ly/3EhSKY5) to identify your strengths and development areas as a strategic leader:For more details about me:●      Services (https://bit.ly/373jctk) to CEOs, entrepreneurs and professionals●      About me (https://bit.ly/3LFsfiO) - my background, experience and philosophy●      Examples of my writing (https://bit.ly/3O7jkc7)●      Follow me and engage with me on LinkedIn (https://bit.ly/2Z2PexP)●      Follow me and engage with me on Twitter (https://bit.ly/36XavNI)

In this episode of The Crafty Show podcast, Ben White, founder of Crafty Counsel, speaks with Shika Soni, Assistant General Counsel at Principal Asset Management.Before joining Principal, Shika worked as Senior Legal Counsel at Royal London Asset Management. She also spent time in New York on secondment from Orchard Solicitors, where she passed the NY Bar exams and became admitted in New York State.Alongside her career, Shika serves as a mentor to a large number of lawyers and aspiring lawyers, as well as individuals exploring careers in law or financial services. In this conversation, Shika discusses the value of mentorship, reflecting on her own experiences and the impact it has had on her career.This episode was kindly sponsored by Taylor Root, a global legal, risk and compliance search and recruitment consultancy.Join the Crafty Counsel Community to discover a space where in-house legal professionals can find joy, insight, and connection. Register for the Crafty Counsel Community for free.

In this episode of the Pensions & Protection podcast in association with Royal London, Kimberley Dondo is joined by Ken Scott, Head of Investment Solutions at Royal London, and Hiroki Hashimoto, Fund Manager from Royal London Asset Management to discuss the challenges presented by the Consumer Duty in the investment landscape. Discover how the Consumer Duty has transformed the world of investments, impacting both investors and asset managers. If you'd like any further information or resources from Royal London, visit: adviser.royallondon.com/PeoplePowered.

Trevor Greetham is Head of Multi Asset at Royal London Asset Management - a £150bn fund. Prior to joining Royal London in 2015, Trevor was asset allocation director for Fidelity Worldwide Investment, where he was responsible for implementing tactical investment decisions across a wide range of institutional and retail funds including the Fidelity Multi Asset Strategic Fund. In this podcast we discuss framework for multi-asset investing, falling inflation and rising growth, w hen to add and remove factors, and much more.    Follow us here for more amazing insights: https://macrohive.com/home-prime/ https://twitter.com/Macro_Hive https://www.linkedin.com/company/macro-hive

What is tech addiction and why should investors be paying attention to the issue? In this episode, we are joined by Di Rifai, Founder and Chair of the non-profit Creating Future Us, who works with investors to champion sustainable use of technology in business and by Carlota Garcia-Manas, Head of Climate Transition and ESG Engagement at Royal London Asset Management. Together we discuss: How tech addiction is affecting society How investors can influence the tech sector Successes and challenges of engaging with the tech sector The role of regulation within tech companies Find transcript here: https://bit.ly/41QqS9E

In this episode of The Fund Managers, the Escala CIO Tracey McNaughton interviews Peter Rutter, Head of Equities and Portfolio Manager for the Royal London Concentrated Global Share Fund. This conversation explores the unique approach to investing taken by the Royal London team and why their approach is considered the purest form of active management. We hope you enjoy the discussion.

Alex Edmans is Professor of Finance at London Business School. Alex graduated from Oxford University and then worked for Morgan Stanley in investment banking (London) and fixed income sales and trading (New York). After a PhD in Finance from MIT Sloan as a Fulbright Scholar, he joined Wharton in 2007 and was tenured in 2013 shortly before moving to LBS.Alex's research interests are in corporate finance, responsible business and behavioural finance. He is Managing Editor of the Review of Finance, the leading academic finance journal in Europe, and was inducted as a Fellow of the Financial Management Association. He has written for the Wall Street Journal, Financial Times, Harvard Business Review and World Economic Forum and been interviewed by Bloomberg, BBC, CNBC, CNN, ESPN, Fox, ITV, NPR, Reuters, Sky News, and Sky Sports. Alex serves on the Steering Group of The Purposeful Company, a UK consortium of leaders in responsible business, and on Royal London Asset Management's Responsible Investment Advisory Committee. The UK government appointed him (jointly with PwC) to study the alleged misuse of share buybacks and the link between executive pay and investment. Alex also serves as Mercers' School Memorial Professor of Business at Gresham College, giving a four-year programme of lectures to the public. His series are on The Principles of Finance (2021/2), The Psychology of Finance (2020/1), Business Skills for the 21st Century (2019/20) and How Business Can Better Serve Society (2018/9).Alex's book, Grow the Pie: How Great Companies Deliver Both Purpose and Profit, was featured in the Financial Times Best Business Books of 2020 and won the Financial Times award for Excellence in Sustainable Finance Education. He is a co-author of the 14th edition of Principles of Corporate Finance (with Brealey, Myers, and Allen).Alex was named Professor of the Year by Poets & Quants in 2021. He has won 23 teaching awards at Wharton and LBS, won the Finance for the Future award for Driving Change in the finance community, and featured in Thinkers50 Radar.

In this episode of Surfacing, co-hosts Lisa and Andy speak with Alex Edmans. Alex is a professor of Finance at London Business School and serves as Mercers School Memorial Professor of Business at Gresham College. Alex talks about his "pie-conomics" framework detailed in his book Grow the Pie. He also explains how organizations can make a business case for sustainability and accountability and offers suggestions on how anyone can make a positive difference at any level of an organization.  About Alex Edmans Alex Edmans is Professor of Finance at London Business School. Alex has a PhD from MIT as a Fulbright Scholar, and was previously a tenured professor at Wharton and an investment banker at Morgan Stanley. Alex has spoken at the World Economic Forum in Davos, testified in the UK Parliament, and given the TED talk “What to Trust in a Post-Truth World” and the TEDx talk “The Social Responsibility of Business” with a combined 2.4 million views. He serves as Mercers School Memorial Professor of Business at Gresham College, giving a four-year programme of lectures to the public, and on Royal London Asset Management's Responsible Investment Advisory Committee. Alex's book, “Grow the Pie: How Great Companies Deliver Both Purpose and Profit”, was featured in the Financial Times list of Business Books of the Year for 2020, and he is a co-author of “Principles of Corporate Finance” (with Brealey, Myers, and Allen) for the 14th edition to be published in April 2022. He was named Professor of the Year by Poets & Quants in 2021. Episode transcript   

The Royal London Asset Management has been walking the walk in ESG for longer than most others – and providing investors with great returns along the way Mike Fox's credentials as an ESG manager are pretty compelling.  Mike has been building ESG into his investment process long before most in the investment industry knew what the initials stood for.  ‘Does this company have a benefit to society?' is the key question he wants answered before he invests.  And his Citywire Fund Manager Rating record is stupendous.  The Royal London Asset Management manager first got a AAA rating in 2006 and holds one today. Apart from one month, he's been rated ever since February 2013. And that's for mandates covering mixed assets and both UK and global equities.  Nisha Long runs the rule over what makes him so special. Frank Talbot,  Angus Foote, and Richard Lander ask the questions and Alan Walsh produces the show. 

In this podcast, Ashley Hamilton-Claxton, Head of Responsible Investment at Royal London Asset Management, shares her:views on how pension schemes and asset managers are responding to recent legal and regulatory changes relating to pensions and ESGinsights on how attitudes to ESG risks are being affected by Covid-19tips on how trustees should go about preparing their new investment implementation statementsexpectations for how this area is likely to develop in the coming years, andthoughts on what the DWP's proposed new requirements regarding climate-relate risks would mean for trustees and asset managers. Speakers: Tim Smith, Professional Support Lawyer, Herbert Smith Freehills and Ashely Hamilton-Claxton, Head of Responsible Investment at Royal London Asset Management

In this episode of The Advice Show podcast, reporter Nicola Blackburn speaks with Ashley Claxton, head of responsible investment at Royal London Asset Management. Claxton discusses the health of the green bond market, pinpoints investment opportunities in this developing space, and shares her thoughts on what makes a green bond credible.

There is no denying that firms need to increase their decarbonisation efforts, but they should also be mindful of their workforce and what the transition might mean for job security. In this podcast Ashley Hamilton Claxton, head of responsible investment at Royal London Asset Management, discusses how the asset manager worked with UK utility firm SSE to develop its first ‘just' transition strategy. Hamilton Claxton also talks about the importance of setting a global carbon price and why delaying certain aspects of Sustainable Finance Disclosure Regulation is a good thing.

Merryn talks to Richard Marwood of Royal London Asset Management about which companies are recovering from the pandemic as people start spending again; how the UK's best companies are getting snapped up by private equity; and why, even as we move to a renewable-energy future, we'll need Big Oil for some time yet.

This week’s podcast looks at the highs and lows of the FTSE 100 as it finally scrambled over the 7,000 mark but fell back after just a day.  Danni Hewson considers why 3.9million is a disappointing number for Netflix when it comes to new subscribers and discusses the pitfalls of an overheating heating housing market with Dan Coatsworth Richard Marwood from Royal London Asset Management shares some tips with Dan about where to find income on the UK stock market. And Laith Khalaf chats to Chris Ford, who runs the Sanlam Artificial Intelligence fund.  They discuss why investing in AI isn’t all about the rise of the robots or tech companies in fact lots of industries are adopting it to make themselves more efficient. 

As the shift to integrate sustainability into investing continues to develop, an array of new rules and requirements are released as regulators attempt to catch up to investor demand. In this episode, Ashley Hamilton-Claxton, Royal London Asset Management, shares her:views on how pension schemes and asset managers are responding to recent legal and regulatory changes relating to pensions and ESGinsights on how attitudes to ESG risks are being affected by Covid-19tips on how trustees should go about preparing their new investment implementation statementsexpectations for how this area is likely to develop in the coming years, andthoughts on what the DWP's proposed new requirements regarding climate-related risks would mean for trustees and asset managers.

In today's episode, I speak with Alex Edmans, the professor of Finance at London Business School. He has a PhD from MIT as a Fulbright Scholar, and was previously a tenured professor at Wharton and an investment banker at Morgan Stanley. Alex has spoken at the World Economic Forum in Davos, testified in the UK Parliament, and given the TED talk What to Trust in a Post-Truth World and the TEDx talk The Social Responsibility of Business with a combined 2 million views. He serves as Mercers School Memorial Professor of Business at Gresham College, giving a series of lectures to the public, and on Royal London Asset Management's Responsible Investment Advisory Committee. His book, Grow the Pie: How Great Companies Deliver Both Purpose and Profit, headed the Financial Times list of Business Books of the Month for March 2020 and was featured in the FT's Summer Books of 2020. He has been named to Poets and Quants Best 40 Professors Under 40 and Thinkers50 Radar. In this conversation, we dismantle some of the misconceptions about purpose-driven businesses, and explore how enterprises of any size can begin to connect more deeply with their values to meaningfully contribute to society. From how we define purpose, to focussing on what is in our hands to change, Alex offers a refreshing and accessible way of re-appraising what we can offer to the world. Join in the conversation #hivepodcast, and find out more at www.nathalienahai.com/the-hive-podcast/ Recorded on 19th October 2020.

In this podcast, Ashley Hamilton-Claxton, Head of Responsible Investment at Royal London Asset Management, shares her: - views on how pension schemes and asset managers are responding to recent legal and regulatory changes relating to pensions and ESG - insights on how attitudes to ESG risks are being affected by Covid-19 - tips on how trustees should go about preparing their new investment implementation statements - expectations for how this area is likely to develop in the coming years, and - thoughts on what the DWP's proposed new requirements regarding climate-relate risks would mean for trustees and asset managers. Speakers: Tim Smith, Professional Support Lawyer, Herbert Smith Freehills and Ashely Hamilton-Claxton, Head of Responsible Investment at Royal London Asset Management

In this podcast, Ashley Hamilton-Claxton, Head of Responsible Investment at Royal London Asset Management, shares her: views on how pension schemes and asset managers are responding to recent legal and regulatory changes relating to pensions and ESG insights on how attitudes to ESG risks are being affected by Covid-19 tips on how trustees should go about preparing their new investment implementation statements expectations for how this area is likely to develop in the coming years, and thoughts on what the DWP's proposed new requirements regarding climate-relate risks would mean for trustees and asset managers.

In the first episode of Responsible Investing: The New Normal, an FTAdviser Podcast series sponsored by Royal London, special projects editor David Thorpe looks at many of the themes that will be central to the world’s response to the Covid-19 pandemic and finds that many of these are already being looked at by responsible investment funds.Ashley Hamilton Claxton, head of responsible investing at Royal London Asset Management, explains how health care and automation are some of the themes being examined by responsible investment funds, while Tom Sparke, investment director at GDIM, a discretionary fund management firm in Cambridge, discusses how technology exposure impacts his choice of responsible investment funds.The FTAdviser Podcast is the podcast for financial advisers brought to you by FTAdviser.com. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

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Royal London Asset Management’s head of sustainable investments talks about the reasons his funds have seen strong inflows despite the coronavirus, why ESG strategies are outperforming the market and how he expects the specialism to change over the next 10 years.

Ben Yeoh is the Senior Portfolio Manager, Co-manager of Global Equities, a specialist in Healthcare and ESG Champion at Royal Bank of Canada (RBC) Global Asset Management (GAM UK). Ben is also a member of the Investor Advisory Group at the Financial Reporting Council (FRC). He chairs the Responsible Investment Advisory Committee at Royal London Asset Management. He is also the co-author of New Text Book on ESG Investing by the Chartered Financial Analyst Institute (CFA UK) Highlights: Looking beyond the causal drivers into more active stewardship and long term sustainability There is a spectrum of capital and the markets will decide on how to react to corporates without sustainability strategy or if they decide not to price in carbon A lot of companies are over-borrowing from human capital, environmental and natural capital or cutting R&D ‘We want to avoid companies creating contingent liabilities or liabilities you don’t see on the balance sheet, which are typically extra financial, call them ESG.’ We will need abatement in hard to abate sectors like cement, fertilizers, flying, steel making, aluminum, plastics, or all that. Integrated vs exclusionary ESG vs positive impact Degrowth movement vs growth and decoupled growth ‘You need systems thinking in combination with personal agency’ ‘Stewardship Code 2020 is going to be a really important piece ... because it's putting the onus on a lot of people in the investment chain to report in a much more transparent way. I'm hopeful that is going to raise the bar in terms of what we're looking for on a systems level.’ Time Stamp: [03:38] What is sustainable and impact investing? [04:43] Active stewardship, SDGs and long-term net benefit. [07:08] Mark Carney on the spectrum of capital  [09:48] RBC as a purpose-driven organisation committing $100bn in sustainable Finance (http://www.rbc.com/community-sustainability/_assets-custom/pdf/OurCommitment_EN.PDF)  by 2025 [11:00] Integrated ESG strategy with deep stewardship [12:30] Over-borrowing from contingent liabilities and the impact on capital and returns   [13:50] Creating sustainable capital, alpha and return  [14:50] Active stewardship  [16:29] How Ben started his journey into ESG and sustainability  [19:45] Cross-silo thinking [20:20] Informal Sustainability mingle [22:00] Improvement of data availability and access  [24:18] Trends and growth of sustainable assets in all classes  [26:23] The opportunities in sustainable and impact investment [29:00] The need for abatement on certain sectors [31:00] What investors are looking for and is important to them [33:00] Climate change perceptions & YALE survey [37:50] Ben’s approach to Integrated ESG vs exclusionary vs active ownership vs positive impact [41:00] Rotten Documentary > S2E3 - WATER [43:50] Responsibility of businesses: Who is responsible for irresponsibility business? [46:60] Influencing demand-side consumer behavior [49:00] Economic approaches as solutions and interconnection with the roles of people and companies  [51:50] Trust Barometers  [52:10] Third party certifications > ILA & Partners, Impact Tracker, B-Corp  [54:30] The updated UK Stewardship Code 2020 [55:10] How do we scale ? [56:45] What inspired Ben  Useful links: Ben Yeoh’s Linkedin (https://www.linkedin.com/in/benjamin-yeoh-445133/) Ben Yeoh’s personal blog - Then Do Better  (https://www.thendobetter.com/) Royal Bank of Canada Global Assets Management  (https://www.rbcgam.com/en/landing) Mark Carney of the Bank of England (https://www.bankofengland.co.uk/about/people/mark-carney/biography) Bank of England Climate Change (https://www.bankofengland.co.uk/climate-change) Elroy Dimson (https://uk.linkedin.com/in/elroy-dimson-4a94687)   Andrew Parry of Hermes Investment Management (https://audioboom.com/posts/7189177-andrew-parry-of-hermes-investment-management-sustainability-is-an-imperative-and-the-beta-of-fu) Alex Edmans (http://alexedmans.com/) author of Grow The Pie (https://www.growthepie.net/) Global Sustainable Investment Review 2018 (http://www.gsi-alliance.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/GSIR_Review2018F.pdf)   Fiona Reynolds (https://twitter.com/Fireynolds) of UN PRI (https://www.unpri.org/) Yale Climate Opinion Maps 2019 (https://climatecommunication.yale.edu/visualizations-data/ycom-us/) The RBC ESG Exchange (https://global.rbcgam.com/europe/institutional/esg/content/default.fs) Colin Mayer (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colin_Mayer) author of Prosperity (https://www.amazon.co.uk/Prosperity-Better-Business-Makes-Greater/dp/0198824009) Claire Spedding Dykta (https://uk.linkedin.com/in/clairespedding) of National Grid Kate Raworth (https://www.kateraworth.com/) of Doughnut Economics Tyler Cowan (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tyler_Cowen) > Growth Rotten Documentary (https://www.netflix.com/title/80146284?s=i&trkid=14170286) - Ref: Season 2 Episode 3 > WATER Amazon commitment to NET ZERO by 2040 (https://fortune.com/2019/09/19/jeff-bezos-details-amazons-net-zero-carbon-emissions-2040-goals-climate-change/) ILA & Partners (https://www.linkedin.com/company/impact-leaders-advisors) Cary Krosinky of Sustainable Finance Institute and Carbon Tracker (https://audioboom.com/posts/7348948-cary-krosinsky-let-the-best-impact-strategy-win) BCorp Certification (https://bcorporation.net/) UK Stewardship Code 2020 (https://www.frc.org.uk/investors/uk-stewardship-code/http-frc-org-uk-investors-uk-stewardship-code) Event: Sustainability Mingle (https://www.eventbrite.com/e/mingle-arts-business-sustainability-meet-new-people-have-new-ideas-tickets-71267465909) 7:30pm, 14th Nov 2019, Theater Delhi, London* * More events to come.  Connect with JP Dallmann on Linkedin (https://www.linkedin.com/in/jp-dallmann/) , Twitter (https://twitter.com/JPDallmann) , or Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/inspiredbyjp/) . Contact us to help you transition into Sustainable & Impact Investing - ILA & Partners (https://www.linkedin.com/company/impact-leaders-advisors) How to incorporate SDGs into your business - Fast Forward 2030 (http://fastforward2030.com/) Find talent and careers with impact - Realchangers (https://www.realchangers.com/) Impact Leaders is produced by Podcast Publishing (http://podcastpublishing.help/)

This week Paola Binns, senior fund manager at Royal London Asset Management, considers how much of a risk interest rates are to bonds and explains how to find the best fixed income opportunities. Taha Lokhandwala looks at how Mid Wynd International Investment Trust's manager is implementing a two-pronged investment strategy and his perhaps surprising choice of defensive holdings. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

In the latest Money Makers podcast Trevor Greetham, head of multi-asset investment strategy at Royal London Asset Management, one of the UK’s biggest pension fund and with-profits investment firms, explains what is driving the firm’s current thinking – and why he thinks the current bull market in equities could continue for another 1-2 years. Mr Greetham is a 25-year veteran of the investment business, and one of the UK’s higher profile strategists, having previously worked at Fidelity and Merrill Lynch. Topics covered include not just stocks and bonds, but Brexit, inflation, interest rates, annuities and pension drawdown.

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My guest on the podcast today is an investment expert with more than quarter of a century of experience. Trevor Greetham is Head of Multi Asset at Royal London Asset Management. He joined RLAM in April 2015 from Fidelity where, as Asset Allocation Director, he was responsible for implementing tactical investment decisions across a range of solutions including the Fidelity Multi Asset Strategic fund with a strong performance track record. In the newly-created role of Head of Multi Asset at RLAM, Trevor became responsible for managing Royal London’s existing multi-asset solutions and also responsible for driving the development of new asset allocation solutions. Trevor is known for his work on the Investment Clock; an approach linking the performance of various investments to the different phases of the economic cycle. This is just one of a range of tactical asset allocation models that bring science to investment decision making but crucially, it leaves room for good judgement and experience to play its part. In today’s episode of Informed Choice Radio, I speak to Trevor about the current stage of the economic cycle and how long this might last, whether the so-called Trump Rally is significant for investors, what might spook investors as the UK triggers Article 50 in March, whether the Bank of England was right in its decision to cut interest rates again last year, why China is on his investment radar for 2017, and how gold represent a bad choice of safe haven for investors. Welcome to Rock Around The Investment Clock with Trevor Greetham, in episode 171 of Informed Choice Radio. Some questions I ask: -How does the Investment Clock work and where do we find ourselves today in the economic cycle? -Is the Trump Rally significant and can we expect it to continue? -Last year was good for index trackers but challenging for actively managed funds. Is this likely to repeat in the future? -What are you looking out for as the UK negotiates its exit from the European Union? -Was the Bank of England right to cut interest rates following the Referendum last summer? -What other factors should investors be considering? What's on your investment radar at the moment? -Is there too much correlation between the different asset classes? Can investors still achieve effective diversification? -Why is gold a bad idea at the current stage of the investment cycle? Thank you for listening! To get new episodes of Informed Choice Radio sent directly to your device as soon as they are published, you can subscribe on iTunes or Stitcher. Your reviews on iTunes are incredibly helpful and really appreciated. We get notified about each one; please leave a note of your name and website URL so we can mention you in a future episode.    

James Murdoch, son of Rupert, has returned to Sky as Chairman. It comes four years after he resigned from the position amid the phone hacking scandal, which led to the closure of the Murdoch-owned newspaper News of the World. Since last July, James Murdoch also served as chief executive of 21st Century Fox, Sky's biggest shareholder. Andrea Catherwood is joined by Sarah Ellison of Vanity Fair, who has closely followed the Murdoch media dynasty, and also Ashley Hamilton Claxton, from Royal London Asset Management, a shareholder in Sky, who calls the reappointment 'inappropriate.' Guardian News & Media, the publisher of the Guardian, is to cut running costs by 20% - a little over £50m - in a bid to break even within three years and support future growth. In the words of its Chief executive David Pemsel: 'We need to be an agile, lean and responsive organisation.' Ian Burrell, Assistant Editor & Media Editor of The Independent newspaper joins Andrea to discuss whether the Guardian's model of free content online, amid a climate of reduced print advertising revenues & the rise of ad-blocking, is a sustainable one. Africa's internet penetration will reach 50 percent by 2025 and there are expected to be 360 million smartphones, according to data from McKinsey Consultants. Today, journalist Ismail Einashe is discussing what impact new media in Africa is having on journalism, at a talk for the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism. He joins Andrea after the talk. Also joining her is author Anjan Sundaram, whose new book "Bad News" examines press freedom in Rwanda. Together they discuss whether the growth of new media in Africa is a way to improve democracy, or whether it's a mechanism for greater state control? Producer: Katy Takatsuki.