Events

Delegated Investment Focus – The Bear; and now the Bull?

2020 has been a year that none of us will forget! After the onset of the worst global pandemic since Spanish Flu a century ago, equity markets experienced their fastest ever bear market (falls of 20%). Since then, central bank policy helped equities reach all-time highs. Unprecedented moves; unprecedented volatility.

In this webinar, specialists from our fiduciary and investment teams will look at the actions we have taken since we last spoke to you in May.

We will explore how we have adapted portfolios and taken advantage of what appears to be a transition from one market cycle to another.

Key topics to be discussed include:

- Our view of where we are on this transition and the outlook ahead — William Parry, Principal
- How we have positioned portfolios in response to markets — Adrian Mitchell, EMEA CIO
- Why hedge funds, an asset class that has long been out of favour, has been highly supportive in recent months — Matthew Towsey, Hedge Fund Specialist
- Why continuing the momentum in ESG matters — Philippa Allen, Portfolio Manager

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Aon’s Responsible Investment Network – Investors as a driving force for change

Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) has risen ever-higher up the agenda for companies and investors. Increasing regulation is but one contributor to this – the events of this year, together with the urgency around climate change, have illuminated the strong link between ESG and long-term value creation.

In our next meeting of Aon’s Responsible Investment Network, we will consider what this means for investors – and, drawing on recent experiences from industry and the pensions world, the role they can play to drive change through effective engagement and stewardship.

On the day, we will be joined by:

• Sarah Faivre-Ovion, Director of Investor Relations, ESG at bp
  Sarah will provide an insight into how investor engagement has informed and supported development of bp’s recently-announced strategy, which will see bp transition from an International Oil Company to an Integrated Energy Company.
• Tegs Harding, Professional Trustee, Independent Trustee Services
  As firms in all sectors increase their focus on ESG, Tegs will consider the new and emerging investment propositions available to investors – and how to interpret, challenge and implement them for responsible investment portfolios.

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Higher Education Cyber Webinar

Cyber Risk has become a critical concern across the higher education sector. With an increase in hacking attacks targeting key data and operations looking to exploit to the recent wholesale move to online learning, the increased requirement to protect key IP assets of research faculties and increased exposures due to rapid digitisation of student services.

During this webinar, Aon's Cyber Experts will discuss how these key risks affect higher education, and how you can build a cyber resilient organisation.

This session will benefit insurance and risk colleagues, CISO's and anyone considering the new ways of service delivery.

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Cyber Webinar Series | EMEA | A view from the inside: Insights from Aon’s Red Team in a remote working world
How could a determined cyber-criminal breach your organisation’s systems in a remote working world?

Throughout the pandemic our “Red Team” have been on the frontline, helping organisations to confidently answer this question, rigorously test their systems and protect against cyber-attacks.

In this webinar, our team will share first-hand case examples of how they were able to identify critical weaknesses in organisation’s cyber defences, including;

- bypassing an organisations defences and detection to obtain business critical intellectual property within 72 hours
- gaining total control of over 1,500 servers in 28 minutes and,
- achieving an over 30% click through rate in phishing engagements.

Register now for insider knowledge, trends and next steps from Aon’s Red Team to help protect your organisation from cyber-attacks in a remote working world.

Speakers:

Justin Clarke-Salt, Managing Director, Security Testing | Aon’s Cyber Solutions EMEA
Matt Summers, Vice President, Research & Development Security Testing | Aon’s Cyber Solutions EMEA