All Old Millhillians are welcome at this flagship career networking event which includes pre dinner drinks, a buffet dinner and a guest speaker and Q & A on the number one priority for the investment industry. It also divides opinion:

“More than one-quarter of assets under management (AUM) globally are now being invested according to the premise that environmental, social, and governance (ESG) factors can materially affect a company’s performance and market value”

McKinsey & Company

“Unilever has lost the plot by fixating on sustainability.” 

Terry Smith, Founder, Fundsmith Equity Fund (AUM £29 billion).

″Because better sustainability disclosures are in companies' as well as investors' own interests, I urge companies to move quickly to issue them rather than waiting for regulators to impose them.”

 Larry Fink, CEO BlackRock (AUM $9.5 trillion) 

“A number of major high-street fashion brands including H&M, Primark and Zara are 'greenwashing' their eco-credentials”

Extract from recent report from Changing Markets Foundation

Our speaker is well qualified to speak and run a Q & A on this controversial topic. Kristen is the Global Head of BlackRock Alternative Investors (BAI) Sustainable Investing - responsible for instilling BlackRock's firm-wide sustainable investing strategy across all BAI's businesses. This includes integrating sustainability considerations and risk factors across the platform's investment and asset management processes, expanding BAI's sustainable product offering and driving greater transparency on ESG analysis and reporting.

Prior to joining BlackRock in 2021, Kristen was Global Head of ESG and Impact Investing at Partners Capital and her previous roles were at Louis Dreyfus Ventures, a sustainability-focused fund management group, and Senior Managing Director and Co-Head of the London office for Hedge Fund Solutions at Blackstone.