These are the slides for a lecture by Pavan Sukhdev.  It was delivered at a Tomorrow's Company event at the East India Club on the 3rd of December.  For more about the event read Tony Manwaring's, our CEO's, blog here or visit their corporate website www.tomorrowscompany.com.

These are the slides for a lecture by Bill Becker.  It was delivered at a Tomorrow's Company event at the East India Club on the 3rd of December.  For more about the event read Tony Manwaring's, our CEO's, blog here or visit their corporate website www.tomorrowscompany.com.

This piece documents a Management Today and Tomorrow's Copmany rountable discussion kindly hosted by Lovells. In it a number of leading business practicitioners and thinkers sat down to answer some of the key questions that came out of the Tomorrow's Owners - Stewardship of tomorrow's company report and it produced some rather interesting ideas for change. Here is a full list of the very high quality participants: Tim Wates, chairman, Wates Family Holdings; Will Hutton, executive vice chair, The Work Foundation; Adrian Beecroft, senior managing partner, Apax Partners; Sir John Egan, chairman, Severn Trent Water;  Colin Melvin, CEO, Hermes Equity Ownership Services; Mark Goyder, founder director, Tomorrow's Company; Rajesh Sennik, leader, private equity and corporate strategy, Accenture; Round Table chairman: Matthew Gwyther, editor, MT; Blake Lee, Harwood environmental consultant; Richard Ufland, corporate partner, Lovells;

Innovest Strategic Value Advisors and the Environment Agency co-wrote a study in 2004 that provides a useful literature review of how responsible investment effects financial returns.  Furthermore there are fifteen case studies that look at how ESG policies have improved the profitability of companies ranging from Shell to Xstrata Plc.

Innovest Strategic Value Advisors carried out this analysis of how Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) issues effect the financial performance of companies.  The literature review looks at 88 studies published between 1996 and 2006, concluding "that in 90% of cases there is evidence from the studies to suggest that good ESG performance can be linked to good financial performance, and vice versa".