Learn How Sustainability Can Strengthen Your Portfolio

Sustainability is now increasingly recognized as central to the growth of emerging market economies. When integrated into investment decisions and private equity funds management, sustainability has shown to reduce risk and strengthen portfolios.

Together with Swiss SECO, IFC has developed a series of workshops on Sustainable Investing in Private Equity in Emerging Markets that build on the experience and the success of a similar workshop held in Washington DC, last May 2007.

IFC will offer these workshops in four different cities across the world, starting with Cairo in November 2008, followed by Hong Kong, Mumbai and Sao Paulo in the spring of 2009.

The workshops are designed to help emerging markets funds managers use sustainability to strengthen their portfolios, identify new investment opportunities and access new markets.

Learn how to:

1. reduce risk
2. enhance exits
3. provide new investment opportunities
   

Topics covered include:

• understanding the relevance of sustainability drivers to private equity funds
• building better business through environmental, social and governance performance
• corporate transparency
• identifying new investment opportunities and access new markets
• developing sustainability management systems integrating environmental and social risk management into the business process
• becoming familiar with IFC’s requirements for its private equity funds investments

Learn more about the workshop in Cairo...

For more information, contact the Sustainable Investing team.