While the landscape for responsible investors has changed dramatically since PRI’s founding, our signatories face new challenges and require PRI to dynamically evolve to provide new ways of support. The PRI created the Sustainable Systems Investment Managers Reference Group (SSIMRG) to consider the current and emerging roles, constraints and barriers facing investment managers in a sustainable financial system[1].

The Sustainable Systems Investment Managers Reference Group (SSIMRG) provides a unique opportunity for investment managers to share developments, questions, concerns and feedback with the PRI Executive related to:

• Innovative solutions to barriers to responsible investment and a sustainable financial system;
• The role of investment managers on system level issues;
• PRI’s sustainable systems change plan[2];
• And PRI’s Progression Pathways[3]

[1] We define a sustainable financial system as being one that creates, values and transacts financial assets in ways that shapes the real economy to serve the long-term needs of society.

[2] A sustainable systems change plan brings together our understanding on sustainable systems issues and financial regulation and data

[3] Noting that feedback on progression pathways during their design phase will also be provided by several of the PRI’s reference groups and Advisory Committees.