‘Make rewilding an asset class’: Ben Goldsmith’s keynote speech at Sustainable Finance Week 2023

To kick off Guernsey Finance’s 2023 Sustainable Finance Week, financier and environmentalist Ben Goldsmith spoke to a packed-out audience about his love of nature, how to make rewilding an asset class, and the role Guernsey can play.  Read his full speech below.  This is actually only my second trip to Guernsey, but I love this place because it's at the same time a kind of bastion for free markets and entrepreneurship and dynamism in financial markets.

‘Make rewilding an asset class’: Ben Goldsmith’s keynote speech at Sustainable Finance Week 2023

To kick off Guernsey Finance’s 2023 Sustainable Finance Week, financier and environmentalist Ben Goldsmith spoke to a packed-out audience about his love of nature, how to make rewilding an asset class, and the role Guernsey can play.  Read his full speech below.  This is actually only my second trip to Guernsey, but I love this place because it's at the same time a kind of bastion for free markets and entrepreneurship and dynamism in financial markets.

Groundbreaking risk transfer mechanism to transform disaster response launched with Guernsey support

The International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC), in collaboration with global professional services firm Aon, Lloyd’s Disaster Risk Facility and the Centre for Disaster Protection, has announced a pioneering approach to disaster response that will ensure swift and agile support is available when a disaster occurs. The transaction has been completed through a Guernsey SPV which is managed by Aon Insurance Managers, and uses other Guernsey vehicles in its structure.   Aon Guernsey MD Paul Sykes hailed the achievement as “Guernsey insurance industry’s finest hour yet, because it will allow the Red Cross, potentially, to reach an additional 6 million vulnerable people each year.