Past Events

Long-term Investing in a Changing World

Dec. 5-6, 2013 at Singapore Management University, Singapore, with Lim Boon Heng, Jin Liqun, Thomas Sargent, Robert Shiller, and others. Read more about this event by clicking here.

Long-term Investing: An Optimal Strategy in Short-term Oriented Markets

Dec. 3, 2012 at Columbia University, Faculty House, with Jeremy Grantham, Joseph Stiglitz, Robert Eccles, Paul Woolley, David Laibson, Patrick Bolton and Frederic Samama. Read more about this event by clicking here.

From Savings Glut to Sustainable Growth

Oct. 17-18, 2011 at ESCP Europe, Paris, France, with Amar Bhattacharya, Augustin de Romanet, Al Gore, Nathalie Kosciusko-Morizet, Jin Liqun, Christian Noyer, Carlos Obeid, Nicholas Stern, Joseph E. Stiglitz, and others. Panels on obstacles to investment, greenfield opportunities, investing in Africa, carbon pricing, the long-term investment horizon, green infrastructure, food security, and risk management. Read more about this event by clicking here.

The Bellagio Session: Toward a Sustainable Capitalism

May 17-19, 2011 at Bellagio, Italy. A small gathering on the establishment of a co-investment platform for sovereign wealth funds and other long-term public investors to support innovative infrastructural projects that could mitigate climate change. Support provided by the Rockefeller Foundation.

The Green Fund

Oct. 6, 2010 at Columbia University, Faculty House. Following the inaugural SWFs and other Long-Term Investors conference, a group of fund managers from China, Sweden, Azerbaijan, Canada, France, among others, gathered to explore the foundations of a joint-venture green investment platform and the demand for more research into SWFs.

A New Form of Capitalism?

Oct. 4-5, 2010 at Columbia University, Faculty House, with Augustin de Romanet, Pierre-Louis Lions, Joseph E. Stiglitz, Andres Velasco, Franco Bassanini, James Wolfensohn, Al Gore, George Soros, and others. Panels on benchmarking, climate risk, the long-term investment horizon, risk management, commodity price volatility, and international governance. Read more about this event by clicking here. View the conference volume: Sovereign Wealth Funds and Long-Term Investing (Columbia University Press, 2011).