Monday, February 26
Morning State Capitol Auditorium
8:30am - Registration
9:00am - Opening remarks (Lt. Governor Mazie Hirono)
9:15am - Summit overview (Ian Chan Hodges & Dennis Kanahele)
9:30am - Overview of Double Bottom Line (DBL) Investing
- How institutional investors are doing "Double Bottom Line" investing (Camejo)
- Socially Responsible Investing: History & Innovations (Keefe)
- Socially Screened Funds (Wieder)
- Community Investing (Berenbach)
- Employee buyouts and corporate restructurings for Double Bottom Line returns (Psaros)
- Economically targeted investments & other Taft-Hartley opportunities (Spalding)
- Proxy voting and shareholder advocacy; mission-based investing as a tool for social change (Viederman)
- Investing in a new generation of resource stewards (Elisara)
11:30am - E Ho'opuka Kupono - Investing with Hawaiian Values
William K. Richardson, General Partner, HMS Hawaii
Afternoon State Capitol Room 016
12:00pm - Working Reception & Lunch (State Capitol - Room 016)
1:30pm to 4:30pm - Roundtable Focus: Investing in Hawaii's Future
- Historical overview
- Current opportunities
- Future visions & responsibilities
Tuesday, February 27
Roundtable Focus: Pension Funds
All Day State Capitol Room 212
9:00am - Introduction and overview of Double Bottom-Line (DBL) Investing
9:15am - Review of significant points from previous day
9:30am - The 21st Century Fiduciary:
Legal, financial and ethical requirements for today and tomorrow
Introduction and Moderator - K. Spalding
- Corporate governance
- Shareholder advocacy & proxy voting
- Federal & state securities laws
- Pension funds as universal owners
- Life of an activist trustee (Camejo)
10:30am - Financial performance of Double Bottom Line investments
- DBL investing: Gauging financial performance
- Why Double Bottom Line investing outperforms
12:00pm - Lunch
1:15pm - Non-financial returns of Double Bottom Line investing
- Effects of Double Bottom Line investing on workers' rights
- Corporate governance: proxy voting and shareholder advocacy as tools to modify corporate behavior to be more labor-friendly
2:00pm - Investments that have Double Bottom Line benefits for unions
- Community investments: an option for pension funds?
- Targeted investments that produce labor-friendly collateral benefits
- Labor-friendly LBOs as a model for alternative investment in the 21st century
3:30pm - Making it Happen
- Real life case study: current labor-friendly investment opportunities in Hawaii
- Educating the next generation of stewards
Wednesday, February 28
Roundtable Focus: Hawaiian Trusts
Morning State Capitol Room 224
9:00am - Introduction and overview of Double Bottom-Line Investing
9:15am - Update from the Kuleana Waiwai Like project and review from previous days
9:30am - History of ceded lands, origin of Hawaiian trusts, and legal challenges facing Hawaiian trusts and agencies (Judge Robert Klein, Bill Meheula)
10:15am - Indigenous screens (Geoffrey Ashton, with video featuring Rebecca Adamson of First Nations Development Institute)
10:45am - Mission based investing: Empowering the beneficiaries
Introduction and Moderator - S. Viederman
- Fiduciary responsibility and organizational mission
- The mandate of mission-based investing
- Hawaiian trusts as universal owners
- Embracing economic sovereignty
- The role of the consultant
11:30am - Financial performance of Double Bottom Line investments
- DBL investing: Gauging financial performance
- Why Double Bottom Line investing outperforms
Afternoon State Capitol Room 016
12:15pm - Lunch
1:15pm - Non-financial returns of Double Bottom Line investing
- Effects of Double Bottom Line investing on Hawaiian rights
- Economic sovereignty as a foundation for political sovereignty
- Corporate governance: proxy voting and shareholder advocacy as tools to modify corporate behavior to be more Hawaiian-friendly
2:00pm - Investments that have Double Bottom Line benefits for Hawaiian Trusts
- Community investments
- Hawaiian-friendly LBOs as a model for alternative investment in the 21st century
- Hawaii as an intellectual property refuge for patents & indigenous knowledge
3:30pm - Making it Happen
- Real life case study: current Hawaiian-friendly investment opportunities in Hawaii
- Educating the next generation of stewards
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