Todd Bridges has experience designing, building, and scaling solutions to bring about long-term sustainable value for companies and investors. He has built innovative products across the technology, data analytics, and asset management industries. His experiences within industry have allowed him to develop executive leadership skills to lead cross-functional divisions, build high-performance teams, execute GTM strategies, and drive growth for new entrepreneurial ventures. His passion and intellectual curiosity have allowed him to develop subject matter expertise in research, product development, product solutions, and technology platforms. He has published articles in academic journals and industry publications within portfolio management, sustainable finance, and sustainable & impact investing. Todd has contributed to consultations for the European Commission, EFRAG, IFRS ISSB, SEC, TCFD, SBTi, Net-Zero Data Public Utility, and ESG Data Convergence Initiative. He has worked with companies (public and private) and investors to understand sustainability and integrate technology to drive sustainable business transformation and accelerate the net-zero transition.
- 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.