For institutional investors and real asset managers, water is more than an environmental or operational issue. It can influence land productivity, operating costs, regulatory exposure, asset resilience, and long-term portfolio outcomes. The challenge is not only identifying risk at an asset or basin level; it is understanding how exposure may evolve across a portfolio, how that information should inform long-term decisions, and how to explain the implications clearly to clients.

In this session, Manulife Investment Management joins Waterplan to share how it is building and applying a portfolio-wide approach to water risk across its agricultural investments. Dan Baker and Nicole Bonna will discuss how Manulife Investment Management brings together basin-level hazards, asset-level vulnerabilities, local operating context, and forward-looking risk trends to identify changing exposure and regional hotspots, support portfolio reviews and resilience planning, and strengthen investment and client reporting conversations.