Inequality is a Systemic Risk

Together we can create solutions

The Task Force on Inequality-related Financial Disclosures (TIFD) is conceived as an explicit systemic risk management framework that can reduce inequality created by the private sector. A collaboration among a broad range of stakeholders, TIFD will provide guidance, thresholds, targets, and metrics for companies and investors to measure and manage their impacts on inequality, as well as inequality’s impacts on company and investor performance.

Read our announcement about the newest addition to the TIFD Interim Secretariat — the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP).

Civil society organizations, regulators, and investors can use TIFD to evaluate the private sector’s performance and hold corporations to account. In this way, civil society, regulators, and investors will be the implicit enforcers of TIFD.

The TIFD Project will synthesize work on inequality from civil society and academic thought leaders with corporate and investor disclosure and risk management frameworks. It will introduce features not currently found together in any one framework:

a focus not only on portfolio company activities relating to inequality, but also investment structures and practices relating to inequality;
targets that companies and investors can work toward to alleviate inequality, thresholds that define the human rights and planetary limits for a target, and metrics to gauge their progress; and,
an explicit role for representatives of the most marginalized and vulnerable individuals and communities as co-creators.

Want to learn more? Check out our FAQs. The FAQ is a living document that will be revised over time as TIFD develops through diverse stakeholder input.

A co-creation process involving a wide range of stakeholders including civil society, investors, companies, academics, regulators, and policy makers is critical to a successful framework. We invite you to join us.

TIFD is committed to being transparent about sources of funding. TIFD is currently funded with a grant from the Tipping Point Fund on Impact Investing, a donor collaborative with the mission of creating and supporting public goods that are critical to the continued growth and fidelity of the impact investing market.