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Mobilising capital for a sustainable future

The Thinking Ahead Institute is a global not-for-profit group whose members comprise asset owners, asset managers and other groups motivated to influence the investment industry for the good of savers worldwide.

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20 years of Thinking Ahead

2022 is the 20th anniversary of Thinking Ahead at WTW. Set up as a Skunk Works to try and see around corners and innovate, there was early recognition that connecting the dots could build better maps to the future and that complexity science is integral to understanding systems.

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Asset Owners 2022

The Asset Owner 100 is a Thinking Ahead Institute study which gathers data on the total assets of the top 100 asset owners around the world. Though not included in the ranking, the study also presents the total assets for the top 10 insurers and the top 10 foundations and endowments. 

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Research Agenda 2023

Our 2023 research agenda proposes five working groups, with research projects, and a collection of TAI tools developed from past projects that our members may wish to investigate and use in their own organisations.

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A six-step action plan for net-zero

Compendium paper | Output from the investing for tomorrow working group

Even though many investment organisations have already made a net-zero commitment, it is our belief that the implications of those commitments are not yet fully understood, and the accompanying actions have not yet all been discovered. The working group set out to build a framework to help asset owners establish and execute a pathway to achieve their climate ambitions.