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Invitation
The Business Families Institute @ SMU
Together with our Knowledge Partner, Federated Hermes
Warmly invite you to our Masterclass
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Improving ESG through an Active Engagement Approach
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Many next-gen family members aspire to improve the family business’s performance on ESG goals, yet often face challenges in introducing new or changing established practices. In this Masterclass, attendees can gain insights into overcoming these challenges through the case study Federated Hermes – Improving ESG Through Active Engagement with Portfolio Companies. Attendees will learn strategies that Federated Hermes' managers adopt to actively engage with portfolio companies as an external stakeholder, and how these strategies can be applied to implement practices that can improve their company’s performance on ESG goals.
Federated Hermes is an investment management company with US$1.5 trillion assets under stewardship* that focuses on sustainable wealth creation.
*Please note the total AUM figure includes US$8.7bn / £6.3bn / €7.4bn of assets managed or under an advisory agreement by Hermes GPE LLP (“HGPE”). US$70.9m / £51.4m / €60.3m of total group AUM figure represents HFM mandates under advice. Source: Federated Hermes as at 31 March 2021.
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Date:
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Wednesday, 19 January 2022
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Time:
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3:00pm to 5:00pm (Registration starts at 2.30pm)
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Venue:
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Admin Function Room 6-1
Singapore Management University
Administration Building, Level 6
81 Victoria Street
Singapore 188065
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Time
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Programme
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2:30pm
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Registration
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3:00pam
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Masterclass by Assistant Professor Kenneth Goh, Assistant Professor of Strategic Management; Academic Director, Business Families Institute; V3 Group Fellow in Family Entrepreneurship, Lee Kong Chian School of Business, Singapore Management University
Case study of “Federated Hermes: Improving ESG Through Active Engagement with Portfolio Companies”
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5:00pm
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End of Event
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This in-person masterclass is open to family principals and their family members only, subject to changes due to prevailing COVID-19 situation and government safety advisory. Seats are subject to availability and BFI@SMU reserves the right to the acceptance of registration.
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Faculty Profile
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Assistant Professor Kenneth Goh
Assistant Professor of Strategic Management
Academic Director, Business Families Institute
V3 Group Fellow in Family Entrepreneurship
Lee Kong Chian School of Business
Singapore Management University
Assistant Professor Kenneth Goh obtained his Ph.D. from Carnegie Mellon University under the Lee Kuan Yew Scholarship and also holds degrees from Wharton and Harvard. As an expert on innovation, his research has been published in the top academic journals in Management. In addition to presenting his research at top-tier academic conferences globally, Prof. Goh also presents at industry events, most recently as a keynote speaker at an exclusive roundtable for senior bank executives organized by the Monetary Authority of Singapore.
Prof. Goh was previously a faculty member at the Ivey Business School in Canada (#1 ranked by Bloomberg). He was subsequently recruited by SMU to oversee the development of curricula in innovation and entrepreneurship. At SMU and Ivey, Prof. Goh has won teaching awards for courses in sustainability, entrepreneurship, and leadership in consecutive years. He has also authored best-selling case studies on family business, innovation, entrepreneurship, and social entrepreneurship used by business schools globally.
Prior to academia, Prof. Goh was an investment banker and entrepreneur. As a 3rd generation member of a family enterprise, he channels his passion for fueling the entrepreneurialism, legacy, and impact of business families through his position as the Interim Academic Director of the Business Families Institute.
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About the Knowledge Partner
Federated Hermes (FH) is guided by the conviction that responsible investing is the best way to create long-term wealth. FH provides specialised capabilities across equity, fixed income and private markets, in addition to multi-asset strategies and liquidity-management solutions. Through pioneering stewardship services, FH engages companies on strategic and sustainability concerns to promote investors’ long-term performance and fiduciary interests. FH's goals are to help individuals invest and retire better, help clients achieve better risk-adjusted returns, and to contribute to positive outcomes in the wider world. All activities previously carried out by Hermes Investment Management now form the international business of Federated Hermes.
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About Business Families Institute
In response to the growing needs for Asian-centric family business research and education, the Singapore Management University (SMU) established the Business Families Institute (BFI) in August 2012 to help business families build sustainable, impactful enterprises across generations.
Through SMU’s core competence as a thought leader, BFI aims to strengthen the ecosystem of entrepreneurial business families and stakeholders in their creation of sustainable impact by addressing business family-specific issues such as succession, family governance, entrepreneurship and wealth management. The Institute also encourages business families to Think Generations, Think Growth, Think Giving and Think Global.
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