Tim Hodgson, Author at Top1000funds.com

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Catching up with reality: Investment beliefs need a rethink

Co-founder of the Thinking Ahead Institute, Tim Hodgson, thinks your investment beliefs are out of date. He says if they were written five or more years ago they aren’t grounded in a 2024 reality and inadequately consider climate risk and systems thinking, both essential for a modern day asset owner.

Tim HodgsonAugust 20, 2024

Sustainability

How to tip social systems (for the better, of course?)

Positive social tipping points are probably the fastest and most powerful way of addressing the climate crisis but how do we tip a social system? The Thinking Ahead Institute's Time Hodgson investigates.

Tim HodgsonApril 29, 2024

Sustainability

COP28: Transition ‘out’ is now transition ‘away’

After COP28 Tim Hodgson says the investment industry needs to decide whether the transition away from fossil fuels will be too little, too late or whether net zero by 2050, with all the associated transformational consequences, is possible. Either way the industry needs to “get really good at intertemporal risk management”.

Tim HodgsonDecember 19, 2023

Sustainability

How large would you like your climate risk to be?

Tim Hodgson, co-founder of the Thinking Ahead Institute at WTW, explores the possible consequences of breaching planetary boundaries and triggering systemic risk.

Tim HodgsonOctober 24, 2023

Sustainability

Phase down or phase-out: Is there a difference?

The “phase out” or “phase down” of coal use leads us down two different paths with the Thinkin Ahead’s Tim Hodgson arguing that phase out is a choice to save the planet, while phase down is an attempt to save our unsustainable way of life.

Tim HodgsonJanuary 31, 2023

Governance

Fundamentally resetting reporting

WTW’s Thinking Ahead Institute has developed an alternative attribution tool giving investors a view on the long-term drivers of performance. Tim Hodgson explains the benefits of the open source tool including improved conversations between managers and asset owners about return drivers and providing clarity on how ESG objectives are managed.

Tim HodgsonJune 16, 2022