Advice · Research · Implementation

Practical insights for aligning capital and strategic influence to safeguard and strengthen the market conditions that drive long-term value.

For asset owners, asset managers and the consultants who support them. TIIP helps investors manage systemic risks and invest in solutions to systemic problems, through hands-on consulting, applied research and SAIL, our turnkey implementation platform.

11 years

of field-tested system-level frameworks

400+

institutions engaged through TIIP trainings and cohorts

800+

investor profiles in Cross-check

$5.5T+

of assets represented by the Handbook’s contributors

Community of practice

Learning system-level investing alongside peers

Cohort programs, training and convenings that bring asset owners, managers and advisors together to put system-level investing into practice.

Cohorts and training · Since 2023

Cohort and intensive training programs

Since our first cohort of 22 leading investors, TIIP has trained investors through cohorts, virtual intensives and in-person workshops. Our workshop series with PRI has run in New York, London, Sydney, Montreal, Chicago and Boston, with sessions tailored by role and organization type.

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Cohort program · Launched 2026

TPSI Cohort and Advisory Group

Investors field-testing the Total Portfolio & Systems Intelligence framework, with Phase 1 results due April 2027.

Stay tuned for updates

Education · Since 2023

Columbia SIPA partnership

With SIPA’s Sustainable Investing Research Initiative, TIIP advances teaching, research and events on system-level investing, including a SIPA course co-taught by William Burckart and Jon Lukomnik.

About the partnership

Education · Faculty network

Teaching system-level investing

With the Impact & Sustainable Finance Faculty Consortium, we share tools and classroom exercises for teaching the topic, most recently in a June 2026 session at Kellogg with faculty from NYU Wagner, Columbia SIPA and Tufts Fletcher.

About the Consortium

Also in the field

Knowledge hub · The Shareholder Commons

The System-level Investing Knowledge Lab

A public good facilitated by The Shareholder Commons that curates resources and convenes practitioner roundtables. Many of TIIP’s publications are in its library, and the two organizations co-hosted “System-level Investing in Action” during NYC Climate Week 2026.

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What we offer

Tools and insights for pursuing system-level investing

Systemic risks such as climate change, income inequality and economic crises can’t be diversified away. We help investors manage them, and invest in solutions to them, through consulting, research and SAIL.

Consulting

Advisory services for pension funds, investment managers, foundations and endowments, government agencies and industry associations on setting and implementing impact and investment goals that tackle system-level issues.

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Research

11 years of thought leadership that has helped define system-level investing: reports, investor case studies, op-eds and two books.

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SAILSystems Aware Investing Launchpad

The first AI platform for managing systemic risks. SAIL helps investors develop system-level strategies, run diagnostics on current practices, benchmark against 800+ investor profiles, and generate mandatory and voluntary reporting in hours rather than months.

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Save the date April 14 2027 In person, with a virtual option for those who can’t join us in the room

TIIP’s 6th Annual Symposium

The Symposium on System-level Investing

Each year TIIP brings together leading asset owners, managers and experts to share how system-level investing works in practice. In 2027 we will deliver the Phase 1 results of the Total Portfolio & Systems Intelligence (TPSI) Project, including the field-tested TPSI framework and an overview of our three-part white paper series, with speakers from the TPSI Cohort and Advisory Group.

Space in the room is limited. More details to follow.

Cover of The Handbook of System-level Investing, edited by Jon Lukomnik with William Burckart

Featured resource

The Handbook of System-level Investing

How Experts Worth Trillions of Dollars are Rethinking Investing

Jon Lukomnik (Editor) and William Burckart (Associate Editor)

Investing always evolves. The challenges of the 21st century are new, destabilizing and systemic. To maximize returns while minimizing risk, investors need to consider the interplay between their investments, the real economy, and the complex challenges of our environmental, social and financial systems. System-level investing does just that.

Research

Latest research

Case studies, reports and commentary on how leading investors put system-level investing into practice.

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Cover of 21st Century Investing by William Burckart and Steve Lydenberg

Also by TIIP

21st Century Investing: Redirecting Financial Strategies to Drive Systems Change

William Burckart and Steve Lydenberg

How institutions and individuals can go beyond conventional and sustainable investing to address complex problems such as income inequality and climate change on a deep, systemic level.

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