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Valuing The Future: Re-evaluating Investment Risk and Return
The Insights for Action seminar series explores how researchers and practitioners within and beyond Oxford are using research insights to drive social change.
In this month’s seminar we will launch the forthcoming impact finance report Re-evaluating Investment Risk and Return: An Outcome-Based Approach to Net Present Value Models and Discount Rates (November 2025). The discussion will introduce a new framework, the Outcomes-Based Net Present Value (ONPV) model, which rethinks how investments are valued over time.
Conventional models often undervalue long-term risks, externalities, and social and environmental benefits. The ONPV model addresses these limitations by integrating adaptive and pluralistic discounting methods that better reflect uncertainty, evolving preferences, and the diverse forms of capital that generate value.
By reframing discount rates and valuation methodologies, this approach aims to align investment decision-making with long-term sustainability, economic resilience, and intergenerational equity. Join us to explore how the ONPV framework can support more inclusive, forward-looking capital allocation and help address systemic challenges such as climate change, inequality, and sustainable development financing.
Date:
14 November 2025, 15:30
Venue:
Saïd Business School, Park End Street OX1 1HP
Venue Details:
The Nest, on the far right of reception area
Speakers:
Alex Nicholls (Said Business School, University of Oxford),
Michele Giddens (Bridges Fund Management),
Danyal Sattar (The Big Issue Invest),
Anna Woźniak (Dyme Consulting Group),
Christian Juel (Aptimus Capital Partners),
Marya Besharov (Saïd Business School, University of Oxford)
Organiser contact email address:
menna.clarke@sbs.ox.ac.uk
Host:
Skoll Centre (Said Business School)
Booking required?:
Required
Booking url:
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/valuing-the-future-re-evaluating-investment-risk-and-return-tickets-1852904590509?aff=oddtdtcreator
Booking email:
menna.clarke@sbs.ox.ac.uk
Cost:
Free
Audience:
Public
Editor:
Menna Clarke
