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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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Fundamental Return Attribution

This new attribution and monitoring framework separates a portfolio’s returns into three main components. The intent is not only to promote a longer-term outlook, but also to improve dialogue between asset owners and asset managers.

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Beyond ESG | system solutions for sustainability

Over four sessions, the series will evaluate the progress we are making as a global society to become sustainable, explore the deeper solutions to which systems thinking points, and reflect on the actions business and finance might take to promote systems solutions to build a sustainable economy and culture.

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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.