
Retirement Investment Systems Reform
Retirement systems play a critical role in society and impact virtually every major stakeholder group, as well as the broader economy and financial system. Macro trends (globalization, te...
Enabling Stakeholder Capitalism Across the Entire Investment Value Chain
The purpose of the global investment system is to enable the efficient allocation of capital to improve economic outcomes. However, as today’s world is excessively driven by short-term pressures (for example, the need to deliver returns on a quarterly basis), this system has become ineffective in responding to new, unprecedented economic, environmental and social challenges. Research has found a $6.7 trillion investment gap to tackle challenges including climate change, global inequalities, water scarcity, and more. Coordinated, multistakeholder action is necessary to address these challenges and therefore rebalance the investment system.
In this spirit, the Future of Investing Platform is implementing stakeholder capitalism across the investment value chain by addressing three priority areas:
-Governance
-Transformational investment
Retirement systems play a critical role in society and impact virtually every major stakeholder group, as well as the broader economy and financial system. Macro trends (globalization, te...
The Future of the Corporation initiative focuses on the need for innovative and integrated corporate governance in the Post-COVID world. As corporate leaders face unprecedented challenges...
The Future of Real Estate – Pathways for Industry Recovery and Transition. COVID-19 has devastated communities and economies across the globe. As the pandemic slowly begins to ebb, the c...
The Converting Global Risks into Sustainable Returns initiative focuses on the need for investment and monitoring solutions that asset owners can leverage to address the world’s annual tr...
This project, developed within the International Business Council, a community of over 120 global CEOs, seeks to improve the ways that companies measure and demonstrate their contribution...
In collaboration with Baker McKenzie
Transformational Investment: Converting Global Systemic Risks into Sustainable Returns provides new insights to ensure that the long-term impact of non-traditional risks and opportunities...
Building an Effective Ecosystem for ESG’ - a collaboration between the World Economic Forum and its community - seeks to advance the state of environmental, social and governance (ESG) re...
"Recycling our Infrastructure for Future Generations" takes a closer look at an emerging approach to financing new infrastructure, which is known as “Asset Recycling”.
The World Economic Forum has released a report taking a deep dive on migration and cities, exploring the types, causes and patterns of migration, the most affected corridors and cities, t...
This White Paper expounds on the work done in the last phase of the Forum project: Accelerating Capital Markets Development in Emerging Economies.
The challenges of providing ageing societies with a financially secure retirement are well known. In most countries, standards of living and healthcare advancements are allowing people to...
The challenges we face to provide our ageing societies with a financially secure retirement are well-known. Advances in healthcare, diet and nutrition have increased life expectancy aroun...
The World Economic Forum has released a new report, Inspiring Future Cities & Urban Services
10 of the best urban innovations that are having a positive effect on quality of life and economic development.
The Blended Finance Toolkit, a product of the Redesigning Development Finance Initiative (RDFI), is designed to provide an overview of the Blended Finance ecosystem and its benefits, whil...
Impact investing enables high net worth individuals to be explicit about their shared values and to reflect them in their investment and wealth management decisions. In addition, an impac...
Each investor and investment institution needs to evaluate whether impact investing fits with its investment principles, future growth plans and strategic constraints – and where it does ...
From Ideas to Practice, Pilots to Strategy is both an attempt – and an opportunity – to disseminate the best practices and lessons learned from the first movers, early adopters and bold i...
Investors have great influence over the social, environmental and economic challenges of societies, yet operate within a market infrastructure and investment ecosystem where the incentive...