The 8th International Sustainability Leadership Symposium was dedicated to the topic of “Demographic Change and Financial Services: a Short List of Threats – a Long List of Opportunities? Business Leaders, Policy Makers and Researchers in Dialogue”. Some 140 participants gathered on 27 and 28 September 2007 at the Swiss Re Centre for Global Dialogue in Rüschlikon. The present report summarises the symposium’s keynotes, panels and working group discussions and draws some key conclusions from one and half days of stimulating debate.