Columbia Threadneedle Investments brought social investment into the mainstream by launching in 2013 the first Social Bond Fund in the industry. Tammie Tang, lead Portfolio Manager for the Social Bond Strategies (UK, European and Global), will discuss how these strategies achieve against their twin objectives of financial returns and social impact, what the future may look like for social investing and the importance and benefits of being awarded the Towards Sustainability Label.
Tom Van den Berghe will discuss following aspects of the Towards Sustainability Label label:
• The reasons for the creation of the label and its added value within European sustainable finance legislation
• The evolution of the label's criteria
• The label in figures and comparison with other labels
• Future perspectives
Speakers:
Tom Van den Berghe is managing director of the Towards Sustainability Labelling Agency which manages the Towards Sustainability label for sustainable investment funds. The Towards Sustainability label was launched end 2019 and has since become the most comprehensive sustainability label in Europe, with 800 labelled products managed by about 100 managers from 10 countries, and representing 550 billion EUR.
In addition, Tom is also director sustainable finance at the Federation of the Belgian financial sector, Febelfin.
Tammie Tang is a senior portfolio manager in the Fixed Income team with a focus on investment grade credit, having joined the company in 2012. She is lead portfolio manager for Columbia Threadneedle’s UK, European and global social bond strategies, as well as various institutional UK credit strategies and the Threadneedle Pensions Corporate Bond Fund.
Tammie holds a Master of Statistics from the University of New South Wales and is a Fellow of the Institute of Actuaries Australia. She is also a trustee for the Columbia Threadneedle Foundation where we work closely with long-term charity partners to drive social change.