Blueprint for Protecting the Future: Islamic Sustainable and Social Investing

What steps are necessary to ensure Islamic sustainable investors are offered a common definition of climate risk standards in ASEAN? What is driving innovation of Islamic sustainable and social finance and investment products, and are we successfully creating products which satisfy both Shariah and ESG requirements? How do systematic tilts in portfolio allocation resulting from Shariah screens influence ESG integration in the development of Shariah-screened ESG funds? What is the role of the asset management sector in directing capital to social causes, and how can Waqf be further deployed to facilitate this? How are investors using ESG data and indices to benchmark and measure portfolio performance and is data still a challenge for the industry? We ask an expert panel.

Moderator:

Vineeta Tan, Managing Editor and Director, Islamic Finance news

Panelists:

Amit Pathak, Director, Head of ESG Index Products for Asia Pacific, S&P Dow Jones Indices
Elias Moubarak, Partner, Trowers & Hamlins
Shahariah Shaharudin, President, Saturna Malaysia