Chandini Jain’s Post

🌱 Bridging the talent gap is crucial for sustainability progress. Our ‘Sustainability in the Middle East 2024’ report explores how businesses are creating a talent pipeline for the future. The focus is on skills in sustainability reporting, regulation, and how Generative AI can drive the sustainability agenda further. Find out how the region is preparing for a sustainable future: https://pwc.to/3V8K1RO PwC Middle East Strategy& Middle East #OurRegionYourFuture

The Auquan team attended Private Equity International's Responsible Investment Forum Europe 2024 event in London last week to exchange insights on using AI in private markets to improve sustainable investment practices. Auquan CEO Chandini Jain moderated a panel that explored AI’s transformative impact on sustainable investing with several distinguished panelists: ▪️ Budha Bhattacharya (Head of Systematic Research, Lombard Odier Investment Managers) ▪️ Simon Fahrenholz (Head of Sustainability, EY Germany) ▪️ Hannah-Polly Williams (Director, Head of Sustainability, Europe, CD&R) The panel explored:  🔹 How AI is automating ESG assessments and streamlining due diligence. 🔹 The ways firms are leveraging AI to navigate disclosures, collect data, and generate reports across the investment cycle. 🔹 What the future of generative AI in finance looks like. We’re entering a new era of knowledge work where AI tackles tedious, time-consuming manual tasks, and work becomes more inspiring and impactful. For ESG professionals, AI can take on the daily grind, empowering them to focus on what matters most: driving capital toward a sustainable future. That’s the future we’re building at Auquan. If you missed us at the event, reach out and connect. We’d love to explore the future of ESG with you. #sustainablefinance #sustainability #impactinvesting #ESG #GenAI #RIFEurope2024 #ResponsibleInvestment #PrivateMarkets

Last month at TSESG - The Summit for ESG New York (TSESG), Auquan CEO Chandini Jain joined Hewei (Frank) Li (Head of ESG Tech & Data Strategy, Apollo Global Management, Inc.) to discuss how to drive value creation from data for private investments. TSESG is a valuable global event series that brings together leading asset managers and investment professionals to discuss the risks and opportunities in sustainable investing, such as investment market trends, international regulations, and ESG brand challenges. Chandini’s fireside chat focused on ESG integration and the importance of data in private investment strategies. Some key topics addressed included: ▪ Unlocking access to private market data: Data providers can deliver clearer insights amid a noisy public data environment. Today, firms can access vast amounts of data from sources globally, and using AI, they have the ability to process that unstructured data, filtering out irrelevant information and extracting actionable insights efficiently. ▪ Leveraging impact metrics: The focus of private investment has shifted from only assessing returns to understanding the broader impact of investments. Using impact metrics, companies and investors seeking to measure and communicate the true environmental and social outcomes of their actions are in a better position to drive change. ▪ Achieving impact within private credit: Achieving an impact in private credit requires the integration of various ESG factors into lending models. This can be done by aligning with the firm’s unique sustainability goals and priorities, adhering to existing global standards and frameworks, and promoting more responsible investment practices at the institutional level. ▪ Challenges with ESG data in private markets: The discussion addressed the hurdles in acquiring and interpreting ESG data in private markets, such as accessing reliable data on private companies and standardizing insights from unstructured data. The future: How technology and AI tools can and are bridging the gap in data transparency and accuracy, changing the way private investment firms operate, and revolutionizing the knowledge workflows to make it more efficient in future. Participation at TSESG New York 2024 had one goal: increasing awareness about the growing importance of data-driven ESG solutions in private markets. Finance professionals have more ways than ever to overcome the multi-faceted data challenges of impact investing and ESG in private markets. Event site: https://lnkd.in/eWp2kDMG #esg #sustainableinvesting #TSESG #TSESGNewYork #Sustainability #Impact #genAI

📢🌍 The 2024 #FideOxford24 Congress “Driving Change: Exploring Opportunities and Challenges in Accelerating #SustainableFinance” Final Report is now available! Offering a deep understanding of how global #financialleaders are driving the #transition toward a #lowcarboneconomy, this report highlights the challenges we face on the path to a low carbon economy and reaching #netzero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050 and how to deal with them.  👉 Discover the full report here: https://lnkd.in/dWezdXfr 💡 Some of the key findings include:  🔹 The strategies companies and financial institutions are using to align with #decarbonization goals. 🔹 How #institutionalinvestors can steer the corporate world toward greener, more sustainable practices. 🔹 The need to boost the Speed, Scope, and Scale of sustainable finance, ensuring fast, broad, and collaborative action across industries. 🚀🤝 🗣️ "The journey to a sustainable financial system requires swift and coordinated efforts across sectors. We encourage everyone to join the GET-2 Think-Tank and contribute to building a better future", said Cristina Jiménez Savurido, President of Fide. This report is a must-read! Together, we can accelerate the shift to a sustainable future. 🌍📈 👥 This Congress and this report has been made possible thanks to the academic leadership of Juan Ramón Caridad, CAIA, MFIA and Cristina Jiménez Savurido, the academic coordination of Victoria Dal Lago Demmi and Lucía Hernández Sánchez, and the guidance from our scientific committee, composed of Ana Rivero Fernández CESGA,CIIA, María Folqué, Angel Perez Agenjo, Marisa Aguilar Villa, Marta Olavarría, and Gonzalo Yebes Gómez, MFIA, FRM. We are grateful to the collaborating companies for their support and trust: Pictet Asset Management, GAM Investments, M&G Investments, Columbia Threadneedle Investments EMEA APAC, Allianz Global Investors, FIAP Internacional , Instituto BME, Transparency International España. We also thank the attendees and speakers who participated in the roundtable discussions. #ESG #Finance #Regulation #Metrics #Risk #Sustainability #Portfolio #FutureOfFinance #ImpactInvesting #GET2 #GET2ESG #BlendedFinance #CorporateSustainability #AI #Data

As I recently shared with John Kell of Fortune, #AI not only has the potential to help companies comply with new #sustainability standards, but it can be leveraged to inspire broader transformation. Check out the post below to read more of our conversation.

Benchmarking your #GlobalMobility function can be a powerful tool for reflecting on an organization's current approach and preparing for the future. Participate in the 2024 KPMG Global Mobility Benchmarking Survey: https://social.kpmg/ge20rz #KPMGbenchmarking #DigitalTransformation #ESG #GenerativeAI

‘AI is already helping companies track their ESG objectives in a wide variety of ways, with some of the most popular use cases ranging from machine learning to improve the accuracy of ESG metrics and address disclosure gaps, to using AI-powered satellite technologies to assess environmental risks, and predictive modeling to calculate greenhouse gas emissions’ Read about how companies can leverage AI to make better investment decisions John Mennel #AI #ESG

The newest edition of EY Public Policy Pulse is out and it's filled with the latest European public policy themes that are shaping the landscape of EY and its clients: 🌱 #ECGC2024: here’s how good governance, good business and sustainability align 🔮 #MoD2024: ‘5 Cs’ Europe needs for #AI excellence and innovation 🎯 Global trends in #AIregulation: What's in store for Europe and beyond? 🗺️ How can Europe promote sustainable and resilient #supplychains? You may find the answers in our latest EY Trade & Sustainability report Read more in the link:

“Finnish companies need more ambition, speed, partnering and commitment to build breakthroughs in international markets”   Trailmaker was happy to take part in the Lexia event held recently. Representing Trailmaker at the event was our Managing Partner Heikki Manninen. He joined a round table discussion together with Elisa CEO Topi Manner, Sitra Director of International Programmes Kristo Lehtonen and Ioxio CEO Pirkka Frosti. The panel was moderated by Member of Parliament Ville Skinnari.    The round table topic was: How do we create new business and competitiveness to Finnish companies? Megatrends such as sustainability and more widely ESG are setting tighter operating rules for all companies. Could this be turned into an opportunity?    It was stated that the ESG regulation and requirements on companies is tightening rapidly. As an example, in the very near future companies must collect, store and distribute critical data on all their products and services. The window of opportunity to become a frontrunner in ESG data management is open right now.    “We all agreed that Finland has good capabilities in digitalization, giving us an opportunity to build a leading position in this market. What we need is better team play. Finnish companies tend to work in silos, which implicitly makes our efforts too weak to win in a bigger game. We need more ambition, speed, partnering and commitment to build breakthroughs in international markets”, says Heikki Manninen.    Thank you Lexia Erika Leinonen, Saara Ryhtä & team for organizing!

The Securities Investors Association (Singapore) (SIAS) is hosting its annual Corporate Governance Week from today, 16 to 19 September 2024. SGX Group is proud to be the supporting exchange of the event, to play a pivotal role in promoting high standards of corporate governance and sustainability. This year's theme, "The Impact of Artificial Intelligence on Corporate Governance and Sustainability" greatly aligns with our commitment to fostering a transparent and accountable business environment. Be part of the conversation in shaping the future of corporate governance by visiting the link in the comments section. #SGXGroup #CorporateGovernance #SIASCGWeek2024 #AI #Sustainability #ESG