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Assets owners in Southeast Asia, notably pension and sovereign wealth funds, are increasingly recognising the importance of integrating environmental,. ....
Worker in a park in Bangkok. Photo: Falise T. / ILO Institutional investors increasingly wonder how their investments can make a positive impact and contribute to the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) moving away from seeing environmental, social, and governance (ESG) factors simply as risks. This shift, initially led by large investors in Europe and other high-income markets, has become more and more global. Still, a challenge remains: how to implement ESG and impact investing tools in the context of less developed capital markets? One of the largest pension funds in Thailand, Government Pension Fund (GPF), was aware of this role when it announced, in 2018, its intention to be the leader in ESG investing and related initiatives in Thailand. Since then, GPF has pursued its mission through initiating and leading collaborative engagements with local institutional investors and with GPF’s external fund managers, both domestic and international ones. Throughout this ....