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NEW DISCUSSION PAPER

Inequality and system health and stability - Risks and opportunities for businesses and financial institutions

NEW DISCUSSION PAPER

Inequality and system health and stability - Risks and opportunities for businesses and financial institutions

Key Takeaways
  • High and persistent inequalities are affecting the health and stability of economies and societies, with implications for businesses and investors.
  • TISFD’s 4-stage pathway traces how impacts on people and inequalities can accumulate and ripple through societal, economic and financial systems - and ultimately affect businesses performance and investors returns.
  • This discussion paper provides a basis for TISFD to explore how a system-level lens could complement entity-level analysis of company prospects, providing greater visibility on risks to businesses and investors.

TISFD is seeking feedback from experts and stakeholders to test and challenge the findings, refine its emerging thinking and inform future work on the TISFD Framework.

You can provide feedback here
Download the DocumentExecutive Summary
This research will help us explore how a system-level lens can improve visibility on how impacts on people and inequalities can affect wider systems and ultimately businesses and investors.
Andrea Saldarriaga, Technical Director, TISFD
Key Takeaways
  • High and persistent inequalities are affecting the health and stability of economies and societies, with implications for businesses and investors.
  • TISFD’s 4-stage pathway traces how impacts on people and inequalities can accumulate and ripple through societal, economic and financial systems - and ultimately affect businesses performance and investors returns.
  • This discussion paper provides a basis for TISFD to explore how a system-level lens could complement entity-level analysis of company prospects, providing greater visibility on risks to businesses and investors.

TISFD is seeking feedback from experts and stakeholders to test and challenge the findings, refine its emerging thinking and inform future work on the TISFD Framework.

You can provide feedback here.
Download the DocumentExecutive Summary
This research will help us explore how a system-level lens can improve visibility on how impacts on people and inequalities can affect wider systems and ultimately businesses and investors.
Andrea Saldarriaga, Technical Director, TISFD
Key Takeaways
  • High and persistent inequalities are affecting the health and stability of economies and societies, with implications for businesses and investors.
  • TISFD’s 4-stage pathway traces how impacts on people and inequalities can accumulate and ripple through societal, economic and financial systems - and ultimately affect businesses performance and investors returns.
  • This discussion paper provides a basis for TISFD to explore how a system-level lens could complement entity-level analysis of company prospects, providing greater visibility on risks to businesses and investors.

TISFD is seeking feedback from experts and stakeholders to test and challenge the findings, refine its emerging thinking and inform future work on the TISFD Framework.

You can provide feedback here.
Download the DocumentExecutive Summary
This research will help us explore how a system-level lens can improve visibility on how impacts on people and inequalities can affect wider systems and ultimately businesses and investors.
Andrea Saldarriaga, Technical Director, TISFD

At the heart of the paper is a four-stage pathway tracing how impacts on people and inequalities can accumulate and ripple through societal, economic and financial systems and ultimately affect businesses and investors.

Viewpoint

How impacts on people and inequalities can affect businesses and investors

Andrea Saldarriaga

Andrea Saldarriaga, Technical Director at TISFD, explains why TISFD is examining how inequalities can affect societal, economic and financial systems, the four-stage pathway at the heart of its new discussion paper and how the research will inform the future development of the TISFD Framework.

Read it here

Why long-term diversified investors need a system-level view of inequality

Takeshi Kimura

Takeshi Kimura, Special Adviser to the Board at NipponLife Insurance Company and TISFD Steering Committee member, explains why changes in wider social and economic systems can affect portfolio-wide returns- and why a system-level lens can complement entity-level analysis.

Read it here

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