Responsible investment has moved well beyond principles and pledges. Today’s challenges require practical capability and informed judgement. The RIAA Conference is a must-attend event for finance, sustainability and industry practitioners who want to focus on the key themes for responsible investment in 2026 and what implementation really looks like. Designed as an immersive, hands-on experience, the program focuses on the systems that underpin strong financial performance, and will help you understand how climate, nature, technology, governance and regulation intersect. 

These specially curated companion resources have been recommended by the conference speakers and Altiorem team.

AlphaGlass is an interpretable machine-learning framework for characteristic-based portfolio construction that directly optimises the Sharpe ratio. Applied to U.S. equities from 2000 to 2021, it achieves a monthly out-of-sample Sharpe ratio of 0.47, outperforming random forests, neural networks, and EBM benchmarks, while providing transparent attribution to firm characteristics.

This Chatham House paper examines four trends — rising defence and dual-use investment, the growth of 'patriotic tech', the push for sovereign AI, and concerns over an AI valuation bubble — that could multipolarise the global AI race, and offers recommendations for private sector preparedness.

This NBER working paper quantifies the environmental costs of US data centre electricity use in 2025. Using facility-level data for approximately 2,800 data centres, it estimates gross external damages of $24.6 billion from air pollution and greenhouse gas emissions, with Texas and Virginia accounting for 30% of the national total.

Planet Tracker is a non-profit sustainable finance think tank that produces research, data and investor tools to help financial markets address nature, climate and environmental risks. It supports investors, lenders and companies with analysis on biodiversity, food systems, plastics, water and supply chains to improve long-term capital allocation and stewardship.

Futureproofing Institute is an independent sustainable finance organisation that develops integrated value methodologies to assess companies’ financial, social and environmental performance. Through research, publications and the Futureproof Index, it supports investors, businesses and policymakers in evaluating long-term value creation, transition risks and responsible investment using evidence-based analysis.

The Thomson Reuters Foundation is the independent corporate charitable foundation of Thomson Reuters, working to strengthen free, fair, and informed societies through media freedom, legal services, and responsible business initiatives.