Recently, the first SAIF-Zijiang Workshop forum was inaugurated online. It was jointly sponsored by SAIF and the Shanghai Zijiang Foundation. It was co-organized by the SAIF Sustainable Investment Research Center and by the Responsible Financier Club of the SAIF MBA Academic Association.
Minxue Kan (President of the Responsible Financier Club of the SAIF MBA Academic Association, student of the SAIF Part-Time MBA Class of 2021), was the moderator of this forum. Focused on "Social Responsibility and Financial Value Creation in the Post-Epidemic Era", experts, scholars and industry elites in CSR and finance were invited. They discussed effective ways to contribute to the sustainable development for global society and the economy, and to spread the sustainable development concept.
Professor Hong Yan (Professor of Finance, Deputy Dean for Faculty and Research, GES Program Academic Director at SAIF, Director of the China Hedge Fund Research Center) delivered a welcome speech. He said that finance should shoulder more responsibility as an essential role in promoting high-quality development, and that SAIF is constructing a Sustainable Investment Research Center in accordance with China's current sustainable development strategy. He also expressed his gratitude to the Zijiang Foundation for its support for SAIF, especially for its help in the construction of the Responsible Financier Club.
Chen Lin, Secretary General of the Shanghai Zijiang Foundation, affirmed the cooperation in talent training between the Zijiang Foundation and SAIF in the past four years. She also said that Zijiang would continue to work with SAIF to contribute to the construction of Shanghai as an International Financial Center in terms of discipline construction, talent training, and responsible education.
In the keynote speech, Yu Meng (Executive Vice President and Chairman of Asia Pacific at Franklin Templeton) gave a speech on "Approaches to Climate Change — Climate Risk Disclosure and Carbon Pricing" from the perspective of asset management and capital markets. Xubei Luo (Senior Economist of the World Bank Group) shared her views on "Extreme Poverty Eradication and Sustainable Development".
In the discussion session, guests exchanged their views on the connotations of sustainable development, the relationship between economic and social benefits, the development direction of family offices, and the future development path of sustainable finance. These guests included: Tan Wang (Professor of Finance, MF Program Academic Director at SAIF), Shuo Qin (Founder of Chin @ Moments), Lyuzhi Ye (Head of AVPN China), and Xing’an Pan (Investment Director and General Manager of Family Office at Yunnan International Trust Co.).
