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SPS Investment Insights Series – Danish Conference
Join us at the SPS Investment Insights Series – Danish Conference
We are proud to sponsor and participate in the SPS Investment Insights Series – Danish Conference in Copenhagen, a key forum bringing together institutional investors, asset owners, and industry experts to explore the evolving challenges and opportunities shaping global investment strategies.
The event provides a platform for in-depth discussions on navigating increasingly complex and uncertain markets, with a focus on integrating geopolitical, economic, and technological developments into investment decision-making. Participants will also explore the growing importance of sustainability, ESG considerations, and impact measurement in portfolio construction.
About the Conference
Through expert insights and practical frameworks, the conference aims to equip institutional investors with the tools needed to balance risk, return, and long-term resilience. It will also highlight emerging approaches such as AI-driven analytics, alternative assets, and natural capital investments, helping investors build robust and future-ready portfolios.
This year’s programme will cover:
- Geopolitics & Macro Outlook – How global fragmentation, European defence spending, and supply chain risks affect markets
- Climate Equity Investing- A pragmatic view on alignment and risk
- Building Robust Investment Frameworks – Managing illiquidity, ESG/impact investing, and AI in decision-making
- AI in investment frameworks
As part of the conference’s expert programme, Shahyar Safaee, Deputy CEO and Business Development Director, Scientific Climate Indices, will deliver a research-led session on climate equity investing and how they advocate for a pragmatic approach when designing climate aligned or climate resilient strategies.
Climate Equity Investing: A Pragmatic View on Alignment and Risk
The session challenges prevailing assumptions around alignment metrics and long-dated transition pathways, highlighting the structural gap between corporate climate ambitions and capital allocation realities. It examines why some widely used alignment methodologies may overstate real-economy impact and argues for simpler, more transparent signals in index construction — such as absolute emissions and disclosed targets.
In parallel, the presentation demonstrates that climate risk is both measurable and actionable. It reviews evidence that transition risk is priced in equity markets and introduces a scalable top-down approach to assessing physical climate exposure within diversified indices, overcoming the practical limitations of granular asset-level data.
The Ambition-Credibility Gap in Climate Alignment
The session will deliver research-driven insights and address two key questions:
- What are some of the latest research insights in climate equity investing?
- How can they help asset owners to construct climate-aware portfolios in practice?
We look forward to engaging with Danish stakeholders and institutional peers in Copenhagen. For further information on the agenda and attendance, please visit the official SPS Conferences website.
