Antti Savilaakso

Antti recently attended the ESG Asia conference in Singapore and shares his experience from this event.

My mother likes to say, “leaving home always, always, teaches you something” I realized this many times as a child of course, but the wisdom of it still touches me today. Even within our professional lives in Responsible Investments.

First steps within Responsible Investments can be confusing as the industry utilizes a wide variety of concepts that are all typically referred to by their own, sometimes cryptic, acronyms.

A typical week of a Responsible Investment analyst consists of addressing a large variety of diverse topics. Why and how the internet is being censored in different parts of the world?

One share is the unit of attention in the stock market. The share materializes investment profit or loss by going up and down, and by paying a dividend. On top of that, shares also literally means a share of a company.

Already several months ago, we embarked on a journey to investigate, understand and eventually communicate about the sustainability of palm oil. We believe that these kind of topical studies are an important part of running a successful responsible investment operation.

Harvesting of the palm oil fruit at a plantation in Malaysia

A recent article in Financial Times states the increased need for ESG analysis, especially when it comes to emerging markets.