Todd Bridges has a deep passion for building research, product, and companies that create sustainable economic growth and generate sustainable return on investment (SROI). He has built innovative solutions in the technology and financial services industries. His industry experiences have given him the opportunity to develop global growth strategies, fundraise (Series A, Series B) across the capital markets, integrate sustainability into business strategy, build innovative product roadmaps, manage high-performing teams, and lead corporate engagement on climate solutions and sustainability-linked value creation. His intellectual curiosity has driven him to develop expertise in ESG data, ESG analytics, ESG product, ESG research, ESG technology solutions, climate solutions, and sustainability standards & frameworks. He has built commercial relationships with companies in technology and finance - including Bloomberg, NASDAQ, S&P Global, Google, Accenture, Goldman Sachs, JPMorgan, BlackRock, Bridgewater, SSGA, Allianz, DWS, and Dow Jones & WSJ. Todd has contributed to consultations for the EU, SEC, SASB, IFRS ISSB, TCFD, SBTi, NZDPU, and EDCI. He enjoys working with companies (public, private) to integrate technology to drive sustainable growth and accelerate net-zero climate transitions.
- Boston, MA, US
- 6179918449
- toddarthurbridges@gmail.com
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Avoiding the Tragedy of the Horizon: Portfolio Design for Climate Change-Related Risk Management and the Low-Carbon Energy Transition
Palgrave Macmillan Feb 2020
Sustainable investing is a rapidly growing and evolving field. With investors expressing ever greater interest in environmental, social, and governance (ESG) metrics and reporting, companies face a sustainability imperative and the need to remake their business models to respond to an array of pressing issues including climate change, air and water pollution, racial justice, workplace diversity, economic inequality, privacy, corporate integrity, and good governance.
Reinventing Climate Investing: building equity portfolios for climate risk mitigation and adaptation
Journal of Sustainable Finance & Investment (JSFI) Feb 2019
Institutional investors are increasingly concerned with the material financial risks associated with global warming and the impacts of climate change on corporate financial performance and security returns. The challenge remains how to empirically quantify climate risk from an investment perspective and build investable portfolios that address the transition to a low-carbon economy. This study analyzes the available metrics for capturing climate-related investment considerations.
A Blueprint for Integrating ESG into Equity Portfolios
Journal Of Investment Management (JOIM) Jan 2018
Environmental, social and governance (ESG) offers a source of new and potentially valuable information for investors, impacting both potential returns and risk. Growing data availability has created the opportunity to integrate ESG into equity portfolios for a variety of investment processes, for both indexing and active management. In this paper, we provide an overview of the current data landscape and several popular methods for integrating ESG.