Events

UNEP FI 2003 Global Roundtable

Sustaining Value: A Meeting on Finance and Sustainability

20-21 October, 2003 | Tokyo, Japan

Agenda: Materiality of Qualitative Risk

• Examination of how material risk assessment is impacting business, and how these risks are material in corporate ratings.
• The role of environmental and social risk in assessing the underwriting liabilities.
  

Speakers

Insurance and Climate Change.
Materiality of Risk...an Australian Perspective
Mr. Tony Coleman, Chief Risk Officer and Group Actuary, Insurance Australia Group
Presentation (PDF: 1.3 MB)

Corporate Ratings: assessing qualitative risks to investment value
Ms. Anne-Maree O'Connor, Managing Director, CoreRatings
Presentation (PDF: 210 KB)

Ms. Akiko Oyama, Consultant, Corporate Advisory Services, ERM
Presentation (PDF: 342 KB)

Speaker Biographies

Tony Coleman, Chief Risk Officer and Group Actuary, Insurance Australia Group

Tony Coleman is the Chief Risk Officer and Group Actuary of Insurance Australia Group (IAG), the largest general insurer in Australia and New Zealand. He is a past President of the Institute of Actuaries of Australia and prior to joining IAG two years ago was a Senior Partner with PricewaterhouseCoopers.

Tony has a diverse range of experience having worked during his career in a major life insurance company and a bank, as well as in a professional consulting environment.

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Anne-Maree O'Connor, Managing Director, CoreRatings

Anne-Maree is Managing Director of CoreRatings, a ratings and research company that analyses the investment value effects of corporate responsibility risks, and is a sister company to Fitch Ratings. With over ten years experience in managing Socially Responsible Investment research to support the asset management process, Anne-Maree has been at the forefront of the development of analysis into corporate responsibility risks and the value of intangible assets.

Before joining CoreRatings in February 2003, Anne-Maree was Associate Director SRI at Morley Fund Management where she was responsible for the development and implementation of the company's shareholder engagement programme across £100bn funds under management. She was previously Head of SRI Research at Henderson Investors and at NPI and began her investment career in 1993 with Jupiter Asset Management as an environmental analyst for Europe's first ecology fund. Anne-Maree has an industrial background in the pharmaceutical and food industries.

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Akiko Oyama, Consultant, Corporate Advisory Services, ERM

Akiko Oyama joined Environmental Resources Management in 1999 and is a member of the Corporate Advisory Services team, in the London office. She has a broad range of experience in environmental management consultancy including corporate risk assessment and CSR strategy for multinational clients.

Through her consultancy works with clients from a wide range of industry sectors, she has developed a very good understanding of the environmental, social and reputational risk issues impacting business operations. Recent projects have involved identifying and analyzing the divergence of corporate context and stakeholders' pressures between different regions in the world, focusing on Japan and Europe.

She has also been participating in the latest ASrIA project, entitled "SRI Perspectives in Japan and the West". Her role in this project was to establish the framework of SRI priorities in Japan, in terms of criteria - governance, environmental and social - and methodologies such as engagement that are relevant within the Japanese cultural and corporate context, while ensuring that international needs and concerns are addressed.

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