EDUCATION SESSION #1012
ESG Investing
Sustainable investing seeks to drive positive social or environmental impact alongside financial results, allowing investors to accomplish more with their money. How are portfolio managers responding to demands for purpose driven by investors? How do analysts account for and evaluate corporate sustainability activities and board diversity when seeking undervalued securities?

Learn how environmental, social and governance considerations (ESG) add to the complexities of asset class selection, portfolio balance and achieving investment performance. Bring your questions and prepare to think about your clients’ portfolio (and your own) through the ESG lens.

Share your insights with peers as you network over drinks and snacks.
DATE
13 June 2019
TIME
5:00 PM Registration
5:30 PM Event Begins
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LOCATION
UBS
1 North Wacker Drive
Chicago , IL 60606
PARTICIPANTS
Barbara Connolly Keady
Ceres Partners

Thomas J. Digenan, CFA, CPA
UBS Asset Management

Lisa Hall
Nathan Cummings Foundation

Laura Kane CFA , CPA
Moderator
UBS Global Wealth Management
HOST
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BIOGRAPHIES
Barbara Connolly Keady
Director New Business Development, Ceres Partners

Barbara Connolly Keady is the Director of Marketing for Ceres Partners. Ceres Partners is a specialist investment manager focused exclusively on food and agriculture. Ceres Partners manages two investment vehicles with distinct strategies and objectives: Ceres Farms LLC which invests in US Farmland and Ceres Food and Agriculture Opportunity Fund which invests growth equity in emerging operating businesses in food and agriculture.

Most recently, Barbara was a research analyst at Southport Management, a convertible bond hedge fund based in Ct. Prior to that, she worked as an associate in the Private Wealth Management group at Morgan Stanley in NY, selling the firm’s asset management services to High Net Worth individuals, endowments and foundations.

Barbara started her career at Bankers Trust Company in their fixed income sales department, covering pensions, corporations and money funds in the Mid- Atlantic region.

Barbara received a B.S. from the McIntire School of Commerce at the University of Virginia and an MBA in Finance from Columbia University. She serves as a Director on the Sprott Focus Trust (FUND) Board. Barbara holds the 7, 63 and 24 securities licenses.

Thomas J. Digenan, CFA, CPA
Head of US Intrinsic Value Equity Team, UBS Asset Management

Tom Digenan is the head of the US Intrinsic Value Equity team. In this role, he is responsible for US equities portfolio construction and research. Prior to this role, Tom had been a Strategist with the team since 2001, whereby he participated in the analysis and development of US equities portfolios ensuring client investment objectives were met. Prior to his role with the US Intrinsic Value Equity team, Tom was president of the firm’s mutual funds and relationship funds organization. Prior to joining the UBS predecessor organization Brinson Partners in 1993, Tom was a senior manager at KPMG Peat Marwick, where he worked exclusively in the investment services industry. Tom is a member of the CFA Institute and the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants, and he is on the board of CFA Society Chicago. He is currently Chairman of the CFA Society Chicago. He is also currently on the Advisory Board for the Driehaus Center for Behavioral Finance at DePaul University. Tom was an adjunct professor in the Marquette University Graduate School of Business from 2012-2016. In addition, Tom has been a guest lecturer at Northwestern University, University of Notre Dame and Creighton University. Tom received a B.S. from Marquette University and an M.S.T. from DePaul University.

Lisa Hall
Investment Committee, Nathan Cummings Foundation

Lisa Hall is a Senior Fellow at the Case Foundation and at Georgetown University at the Beeck Center, which engages global leaders to drive social change at scale. Lisa leads the Case Foundation’s impact investing work, focused on programs to drive more investors and capital into impact investing and efforts to break down barriers to entry for new impact investors. Her area of focus at the Beeck Center is the inclusive economy, examining how access to opportunity and social innovation can drive prosperity for all communities. Lisa has dedicated her 25-year career to economic justice, social impact and community development. Using the tools of impact investing and philanthropy, she has served in executive roles across multiple sectors in the United States and abroad.

Lisa previously served as Managing Director at Anthos Asset Management, headquartered in Amsterdam, the Netherlands where she was based for three years. She also served as CEO and President of Calvert Foundation from 2010 to 2013, following her tenure as head of the investment portfolio from 2005 to 2010. Lisa served in the Clinton Administration in 1999 as a policy advisory at the National Economic Council where she worked on the creation of the New Markets Investment Tax Credit.

Lisa currently serves on several boards including City First Bank, in Washington, DC and Habitat for Humanity International. She is a graduate of Leadership Greater Washington class of 2008 and participated in the Marshall Memorial Fellowship in 2003. Lisa earned an MBA from Harvard Business School and a BS in Economics from the Wharton School at University of Pennsylvania.

Laura Kane CFA , CPA
Head Thematic Research Americas, UBS Global Wealth Management

Laura joined CIO in 2015 and is responsible for coordinating and developing content for the team’s thematic and sustainable investment offerings. She is a key contributor of thematic content for the flagship UBS House View suite and for sustainable investing publications. She is a voting member of the US Thematic Investment Committee.

Previously, Laura was a multi-asset class Senior Investment Strategist at Barclays Wealth Management, where she was a member of the Americas Investment Committee. Prior to that, she was an Equity Research analyst at JP Morgan Asset Management, covering Industrials and Transports. In this role, Laura conducted thematic sector level research, as well as fundamental stock analysis, to derive investment recommendations for JP Morgan’s large cap core portfolios.

Laura is a Chartered Financial Analyst® charter holder and Certified Public Accountant. She is a member of the CFA Institute and New York Society of Security Analysts. She holds NASD series 7, 63, and 86 licenses. Laura holds a B.S. in Applied Economics and Management from Cornell University in Ithaca, NY.
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UBS
UBS is committed to providing private, institutional and corporate clients worldwide, as well as retail clients in Switzerland, with superior financial advice and solutions while generating attractive and sustainable returns for shareholders. Its strategy centers on its Wealth Management and Wealth Management Americas businesses and its leading universal bank in Switzerland, complemented by its Global Asset Management business and its Investment Bank. These businesses share three key characteristics: they benefit from a strong competitive position in their targeted markets, are capital-efficient, and offer a superior structural growth and profitability outlook. UBS's strategy builds on the strengths of all of its businesses and focuses its efforts on areas in which it excels, while seeking to capitalize on the compelling growth prospects in the businesses and regions in which it operates. Capital strength is the foundation of its success.

Headquartered in Zurich, Switzerland, UBS has offices in more than 50 countries, including all major financial centers, and approximately 60,000 employees. UBS Group AG is the holding company of the UBS Group. Under Swiss company law, UBS Group AG is organized as an Aktiengesellschaft, a corporation that has issued shares of common stock to investors. The operational structure of the Group comprises the Corporate Center and five business divisions: Wealth Management, Wealth Management Americas, Retail & Corporate, Global Asset Management and the Investment Bank.

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