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Creating value for society by efficiently financing the world’s most pressing opportunities and responding rapidly to long-term risks.
Today’s world is excessively driven by short-term pressures. The investment community, spanning venture capitalists to sovereign wealth funds, holds trillions of dollars in assets. By allocating capital to countries, industries and individual businesses, the community has significant influence on the business practices of their investees, and acts as a key influencer in shaping a long-term and sustainable global economy. Given their roles in the investment value chain, private and institutional investors along with corporate boards have the power to act as champions of long-term thinking.
In this spirit, our Platform focuses notably on long-term investing, including asset stewardship, infrastructure financing, pension reform and corporate leadership.
We are building a coalition of over 100 partners, including companies, policy-makers, pension funds, asset managers and insurance companies, to drive consensus on investment reforms that address global challenges.
The global reach, scale and time horizon of most publicly-owned investors compels their consideration of non-traditional opportunities and risks. To compete for sources of sustainable cap...
ESG Ecosystem Map
This project aims to mobilize the investor community as part of the Forum’s broader efforts on long-termism. It will identify key investors and corporations who, driven by long-term risk ...
Retirement systems play a critical role in society and impact virtually every major stakeholder group, as well as the broader economy and financial system. Macro trends (globalization, te...
Building an Effective Ecosystem for ESG’ - a collaboration between the World Economic Forum and its community - seeks to advance the state of environmental, social and governance (ESG) re...
"Recycling our Infrastructure for Future Generations" takes a closer look at an emerging approach to financing new infrastructure, which is known as “Asset Recycling”.
The World Economic Forum has released a report taking a deep dive on migration and cities, exploring the types, causes and patterns of migration, the most affected corridors and cities, t...
This White Paper expounds on the work done in the last phase of the Forum project: Accelerating Capital Markets Development in Emerging Economies.
The challenges of providing ageing societies with a financially secure retirement are well known. In most countries, standards of living and healthcare advancements are allowing people to...
The challenges we face to provide our ageing societies with a financially secure retirement are well-known. Advances in healthcare, diet and nutrition have increased life expectancy aroun...
The World Economic Forum has released a new report, Inspiring Future Cities & Urban Services
10 of the best urban innovations that are having a positive effect on quality of life and economic development.
The Blended Finance Toolkit, a product of the Redesigning Development Finance Initiative (RDFI), is designed to provide an overview of the Blended Finance ecosystem and its benefits, whil...
Impact investing enables high net worth individuals to be explicit about their shared values and to reflect them in their investment and wealth management decisions. In addition, an impac...
Each investor and investment institution needs to evaluate whether impact investing fits with its investment principles, future growth plans and strategic constraints – and where it does ...
From Ideas to Practice, Pilots to Strategy is both an attempt – and an opportunity – to disseminate the best practices and lessons learned from the first movers, early adopters and bold i...
Investors have great influence over the social, environmental and economic challenges of societies, yet operate within a market infrastructure and investment ecosystem where the incentive...
