Principles for Responsible Investment

And today, Outspeakers will bring the best of what they brought to the organizations and to private markets over the last few years.

They have also been shortlisted for our PRI awards.

And so we just wanted to reiterate as an organization and as our capital markets evolve amidst its volatility, how important emerging markets private investing has become.

We'll be discussing specifically the decisions which have made these practitioners, real leaders in the organizations and in the space, what actually changed within the companies, but also We hope we leave you with some real practical examples of what you can replicate and apply as well, both to improve your professional skill sets, but also the market that you operate in.

And both of you have just really epitomized how responsible investment starts with a conviction, a conviction you can share, you can catch other leaders' joint energy around.

But it really thrives when you can translate that into real investment value.

And a lot of the work we've been doing at PRI is centered in private markets around the value creation evidence.

And you've just shown that so well in your journeys.

One way this is happening is is by seeking out climate disclosures as part of the investment process.

There are a number of groups providing templates to do this, two of which include the Task Force for Climate-Related Financial Disclosures, often referred to as TCFD, and also the Principles for Responsible Investment, or PRI.

It's been interesting to see regulators pick up on those templates that you mentioned and And maybe starting in some international markets, but quickly coming to the conversation, North American markets as well, regulators or supervisors thinking about that, maybe even creating these additional incentives for insurers or other institutional investors to think in that direction.

And Max, as I've been looking through that as well, we live in a world full of acronyms and we see a lot of discussion in the press and from regulators about this concept of ESG.

In today's episode, we wanted to understand what investors are focusing on at Climate Week NYC.

For this, we turned to an organization with about 5,000 members around the world representing more than $139 trillion in assets under management, the Principles for Responsible Investment, or PRI.

PRI was set up with the United Nations and the world's largest institutional investors in 2006 to drive responsible investment.

Twenty years later, the organization is working with many parts of the financial ecosystem.

To learn how this community is adapting its investment strategies in a bumpy 2026, I sat down with PRI's interim CEO on the sidelines of Climate Week NYC.

Let's dive into the conversation.

I'm Cambria Allen-Ratzlaff, Interim CEO for the Principles for Responsible Investment.

I took the role toward the end of last year and very proud to be leading PRI at a very exciting time for the organization and for the global investment community.

And you can watch it online at tvlightgroup.com. It's called The Better World Prize.

And, of course, all of the well-funded ones, you know, PRI, Principal Responsible Investing, Carbon Disclosure Project, B Corp, EcoVadis, World Benchmark Alliance, All of those that are well-funded, they refuse to participate because they never wanted comparability, which is how they operated when they wanted to speak at our conference.

Don't put me on the

thing.

But one particular initiative I'd like to put, you know, the spotlight on is stewardship engagement guide we have developed, and I think it's the first one that exists.

And so we have developed that guide with PRI, with Path to Zero, with Sustainable Stock Exchange Initiative, and it's basically a practical guide for companies.

Investors are talking a lot about stewardship engagement.

What does that mean? What does that mean for them? Because that will have the implication for me as a company.