This archive lists webinars and other live presentations that were developed, sponsored, and presented by SILC from 2013 to 2023. For reference purposes, a link is provided to the agendas of the full-day annual conferences that were delivered from 2016 to 2019. A link is also provided to the descriptions of events that have been delivered since 2021.
Since 2021
The SILC web site lists all events that have been delivered since 2021.
July 2020
Business Strategy and Risk in the Pandemic Era
July 14, 2020, 1:00 pm U.S. Eastern time, Webinar (Zoom)
CLE (Attorneys) sponsored by Alston & Bird.
CPE (Accountants) sponsored by PKF O'Connor Davies.
Join Ropes & Gray Partner Michael R. Littenberg, PKF O’Connor Davies, LLP Financial Services Partner-in-Charge Marc L. Rinaldi, and COSO Chairman Paul J. Sobel, CIA, QIAL, CRMA as they speak to Houston Baptist University Professor Michael Kraten, PhD, CPA for a direct, bracing, and informative conversation about new business strategies and operational practices in the pandemic era.
Topics
- How Internal Control and Enterprise Risk Management practices are evolving in response to pandemic conditions.
- Why litigation exposure is shifting to new areas, and how new quantitative measures of the trade-offs between profit and risk are reflecting these changes.
- How client service organizations are investing in new capabilities to exploit business opportunities during the pandemic era.
- Why the field of Corporate Social Responsibility must evolve to reflect the changing demands, expectations, and priorities of external stakeholders.
- How family offices, investment funds, and individual investors are modifying their capital allocation decisions and impacting the growth of sustainable investing.
2016 to 2019
May 2015
Sustainable Investing and Achievable Alpha
Moderator: Leighton Strader, Virginia Ventures
Peter Knight, Generation Investment Management, US
Raul Pomares, Sonen Capital
Marc Robert, Water Asset Management
October 2014
Why does the hedge fund industry need to care about sustainability?
Moderator: Dorsey Baskin, Partner at Grant Thornton LLP
Eli Fenichel, Assistant Professor, Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies
Erika Karp, CEO & Founder, Cornerstone Capital Inc.
Marisa Mackey, Head of Accounting & Financial Analysis, Gerson Lehrman Group
May 2013
CSR & Sustainability primer and discussion of impact
Moderator: Stanley Goldstein, Founder of The New York Hedge Fund Roundtable
Dr. Cheryl Dorsey, CEO, Echoing Green
Jennifer Field, Director of Social Impact, Gerson Lehrman Group
Jane Gleeson-White, author of “Double Entry: How the Merchant of Venice Created Modern Finance”
Dr. Andrew Park, Director of Sustainability, Bloomberg
Dr. Frank Plantan, Co-Director, International Relations Program, University of Pennsylvania