Pioneering Positive Change

Is greed good and sin back? Ten years on from the launch of the UN’s Sustainable Development goals the investment backdrop looks very different to 2015. How should we think about investing for sustainable and inclusive growth in a world characterised by a higher cost of capital, fragmented geopolitics and rising ESG scepticism? How can you invest to make exceptional returns and help to solve global challenges? We will explore why our conviction is stronger than ever that the world’s most profitable companies will reflect the long-term needs of our time.

Learning Objectives:

• To explore the changing backdrop for sustainable and impact funds
• To understand how solving global challenges are already providing some of the great structural growth opportunities of the coming decade
• To consider how technology has the potential to supercharge positive progress

Speaker:

Rosie Rankin, Investment Specialist, Baillie Gifford

Rosie is an investment specialist in the Clients Department. She joined Baillie Gifford in 2013 as a manager in the Clients Department. Prior to joining Baillie Gifford, she worked at Martin Currie Investment Management, Aberdeen Asset Management and Edinburgh Fund Managers. Rosie graduated MA (Hons) in Politics and Economic & Social History from the University of Edinburgh in 1997. She holds Postgraduate Diplomas from the Chartered Institute of Securities & Investments and the Chartered Institute of Marketing.