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1.5 trillion dollars of impact capital, from commercial to catalytic

Host Brian Walsh takes up ImpactAlpha’s top stories with editor David Bank, dialing in from Amsterdam. Up this week: The GIIN’s new report pegs the impact investing market at $1.5 trillion…ish; the reasons for and significance of the news that the Catalytic Capital Consortium is doubling down rather than shutting down its efforts to expand the use of the financing tool; and, a preview of ImpactAlpha’s new documentary on the North Carolina model, premiering at SOCAP next week. Check out the trailer. Register for SOCAP24 using the code “s24_ImpactAlpha” to save $250.
10/24/202420 minutes, 45 seconds
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Strategies for housing affordability and ownership

Host Brian Walsh takes up ImpactAlpha’s top stories with editor David Bank. Up this week: Highlights from this week’s Agents of Impact Call on putting an ownership lens on housing affordability; how and why to restore trust in voluntary carbon markets; and, Amazon and Google opt for the nuclear option in their drive to supply their power-hungry data centers with carbon-free energy.
10/17/202420 minutes, 10 seconds
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Another petrostate COP + new innovative financial models in emerging markets and the US

Host Brian Walsh takes up ImpactAlpha’s top stories with editor David Bank. Up this week: What’s at stake as climate negotiators prepare for COP29, which for the second year running, will be held in a petro-state; how inclusive fintech ventures are cutting in middle men and women to build trust; and, a look at two new innovative financial models: for water in emerging markets and land conservation in the US.
10/10/202423 minutes, 15 seconds
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Reimagining home insurance in the face of climate disasters + funding emerging managers

Host Brian Walsh takes up ImpactAlpha’s top stories with editor David Bank. Up this week: new insurance models that aim to climate proof homes and towns, enhanced efforts to support diverse emerging fund managers, and how private equity is quietly funding fossil fuel investments.
10/3/202421 minutes, 26 seconds
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Jeff Brenner: Building institutional-grade strategies to create – and preserve – affordable housing

Jeff Brenner, co-founder of Impact Community Capital, joins David Bank to discuss learnings from the firm's deployment of over $1.6 billion in affordable housing. The organization aims to raise an additional $1 billion to $1.5 billion in the next three to four years, targeting a broader range of institutional investors.
10/1/202420 minutes, 18 seconds
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Takeaways from Climate Week NYC

Host Brian Walsh takes up ImpactAlpha’s top stories with editor David Bank. The buzz around early stage climate startups and the continued need for scale — both bigger checks and bigger investable opportunities. Climate inflation affecting grocery store prices How carbon markets are financing sustainable development.
9/26/202417 minutes, 12 seconds
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Commercial capital is crowding into blended funds + the ownership economy arrives

This Week in Impact: host Brian Walsh takes up ImpactAlpha’s top stories with editor David Bank. Blending billions Call roundup. Finding the alpha at climate week.
9/20/202418 minutes, 42 seconds
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A near climate-free debate + sustainable fashion week

Host Brian Walsh takes up the top stories in impact with editorial director Amy Cortese. Up this week: Climate change and the Inflation Reduction Act’s minimal mentions in the presidential debate, a report from the sustainable side of fashion week in New York, and a look at the rising number of student-led impact funds.
9/12/202421 minutes, 45 seconds
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Policy planks for the ownership economy + African capital for African infrastructure

Host Brian Walsh takes up ImpactAlpha’s top stories with editor David Bank. Up this week: A new report proposes seven bipartisan policy tweaks that could drive more private capital into financing worker ownership transitions. How USAID is banking commercial returns by working with local institutional capital providers in Africa to finance African infrastructure. Will companies that backpedal on their diversity commitments face legal risk from investors?
9/5/202420 minutes, 27 seconds
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Let the water (investment) flow, climate finance updates, and family office ImpInv in LatAm

🎧 This Week in Impact. Host Brian Walsh takes up ImpactAlpha’s top stories with editor David Bank. Stories on this episode: Call replay and recap Climate investors rally behind Kamala Harris to protect policies – and portfolios The push and pull of impact investing for wealthy families in Latin America Latam Newsletter Signup
8/29/202419 minutes, 1 second
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How SJF Ventures seeks to bend the impact curve with Dave Kirkpatrick and Kelsey Jarrett

David Bank is joined by Dave Kirkpatrick, Managing Director and co-founder of SJF Ventures, a climate and impact investor in Durham NC, and SJF’s Director of Impact, Kelsey Jarrett, to talk about finding the alpha in impact. Read Dave and Kelsey's op-ed on ImpactAlpha, as well as our profile of Dave.
8/28/202420 minutes, 46 seconds
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Impact at the DNC, pro-ESG states outperform, and a solar boost in India

Host Brian Walsh takes up ImpactAlpha’s top stories with Amy Cortese. On today's episode: ⁠Beyond Chicago, Harris seeks to ride a revival in wages, entrepreneurship and ownership⁠ ⁠Talk of the Town: Live updates from outside the Democratic National Convention⁠ ⁠Pension funds in pro-ESG ‘blue’ states outperform those in anti-ESG ‘red’ ones — to the tune of $159 billion⁠ ⁠New wave of off-grid energy startups are climate-proofing India’s economic future⁠  ⁠India’s residential rooftops sprout solar panels with generous government subsidies
8/22/202423 minutes, 33 seconds
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Mary Ellen Iskenderian: Accelerating women’s financial inclusion by digitizing their financial habits

Mary Ellen Iskenderian, CEO of Women’s World Banking, joins David Bank for an Agents of Impact interview. They discuss the organization's 45 years of work advancing financial inclusion for low-income women around the globe and new initiatives around fintech, financial wellness and climate resilience. Read more by heading over to impactapha.com/podcasts
8/20/202424 minutes, 28 seconds
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Facing the new legal landscape for impact, how to measure & manage impact, and HBO takes on ESG

Host Brian Walsh takes up ImpactAlpha’s top stories with editor David Bank: Mapping an impact investing path through the new legal landscape Are fund managers ready to set targets to hold themselves accountable for impact? HBO brings a sleek, sexy and skeptical view of impact investing to a television audience.
8/15/202419 minutes, 11 seconds
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VC's for Kamala, blended finance in Africa, and Yunus returns

Host Brian Walsh takes up ImpactAlpha’s top stories with editor David Bank. Up this week: ⁠⁠⁠⁠Why certain Venture Capitalists are embracing Kamala Harris’s campaign vision⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠How three Africa-led blended finance models are mobilizing billions for development ⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠Why microfinance pioneer Muhmmad Yunus is stepping in to lead Bangladesh during a political crisis⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠RSVP⁠⁠⁠⁠ for next week's Call!
8/9/202420 minutes, 51 seconds
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VC's for Kamala, blended finance in Africa, and Yunus returns

Host Brian Walsh takes up ImpactAlpha’s top stories with editor David Bank. Up this week: ⁠Why certain Venture Capitalists are embracing Kamala Harris’s campaign vision⁠ ⁠How three Africa-led blended finance models are mobilizing billions for development ⁠ ⁠Why microfinance pioneer Muhmmad Yunus is stepping in to lead Bangladesh during a political crisis⁠ ⁠RSVP⁠ for next week's Call! *correction: an earlier version of this podcast said there were 4000 VCs on the Kamala Harris oranizing call. That number was actually in the hundreds.
8/8/202420 minutes, 51 seconds
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Capitol Gains Ep2: Climate, insurance and risk management with Carolyn Kousky

The team is on break, so we're sharing the second episode of James McIntyre and Matt Posner's new podcast Capitol Gains, the latest edition to the ImpactAlpha Podcast Network. In this episode James and Matt had the pleasure of hosting Carolyn Kousky of the Environmental Defense Fund. With an extensive background in climate risk management and policy approaches, Carolyn provided a compelling discussion on the evolving risks of climate change, the critical role of disaster insurance and the challenges within the current dynamic. ⁠Subscribe to Capitol Gains wherever you listen.⁠
8/1/202436 minutes, 58 seconds
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A political proxy battle⁠ for the soul of tech, youth-lens investing in Africa, and recycling is having a moment

Host Brian Walsh takes up ImpactAlpha’s top stories with editor David Bank. Up this week: The political proxy battle for the soul of tech, innovation and social impact, what youth led protests mean for the impact agenda, and how recycling is having a moment.
7/25/202421 minutes, 6 seconds
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New strategies for refugee-lens investing, deadlines approach for the GGRF, and a preview of Capitol Gains

Host Brian Walsh takes up ImpactAlpha’s top stories with Jessica Pothering. Up this week: Refugee-lens investing: https://impactalpha.com/new-tools-for-humanitarian-relief-in-crisis-zones-blended-finance-offtake-contracts-and-debt-swaps/ GGRF deadlines: https://impactalpha.com/epa-melds-private-and-public-capital-and-a-surplus-of-opinions-to-beef-up-green-banking/ Capitol Gains: https://impactalpha.com/capitol-gains-utahs-ben-mcadams-on-local-solutions-to-dysfunction-in-washington-podcast/
7/18/202421 minutes, 10 seconds
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Wait, there's good economic news? Plus, TPG's AI enabled, smart city play.

Host Brian Walsh takes up ImpactAlpha’s top stories with editor David Bank. Up this week: the good economic news that’s been largely overlooked — or at least overshadowed — in the current tumultuous news cycle: https://impactalpha.com/left-behind-communities-ride-bipartisan-policies-if-not-politics-to-prosper-at-last/ Plus, an impact investment from TPG to fund AI-powered cameras that detect parking violations in bus-only zones: https://impactalpha.com/tpg-rise-fund-leads-90-million-investment-in-ai-for-smart-cities/ Subscribe to ImpactAlpha: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://impactalpha.com/subscribe/⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ This episode features music by Isaac Silk.
7/11/202413 minutes, 49 seconds
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Indigenizing agri-finance for Native-led businesses with Skya Ducheneaux

Skya Ducheneaux of Akiptan, a Native community development financial institution on the Cheyenne River Sioux Reservation in Eagle Butte, SD. joins David Bank on the latest Agents of Impact Podcast.
7/8/202415 minutes, 5 seconds
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The Supreme Court's impact, US political risk, and driving community homeownership without displacement

Host Brian Walsh takes up ImpactAlpha’s top stories with editor David Bank. Up this week: The implications of this term’s Supreme Court rulings on the business environment for sustainable finance: https://impactalpha.com/supreme-court-rulings-threaten-to-turn-policy-tailwinds-into-headwinds-for-impact-investors/ How impact investors are preparing for the political risk of the upcoming US presidential elections: https://impactalpha.com/as-the-vibe-shifts-agents-of-impact-ask-what-do-we-do-now/ How a nonprofit housing developer is looking to drive community homeownership without displacement in Baltimore: https://impactalpha.com/real-revitalization-part-1-parity-buys-back-the-block-to-drive-community-revival-without-displacement-in-west-baltimore/ Sign up for ImpactAlpha LatAm: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://impactalpha.com/latam-newsletter-email/⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Subscribe to ImpactAlpha: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://impactalpha.com/subscribe/⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ This episode featured music by Isaac Silk and by ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Yurii Semchyshyn⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠.
7/4/202424 minutes, 53 seconds
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How New Ventures is scaling up by going deep, Obran's plan to build a worker coop conglomerate, and why Surdna is doubling down on their impact strategy

Host Brian Walsh takes up top stories with ImpactAlpha’s Jessica Pothering. Up this week: How New Ventures is aiming to scale by going deep instead of big:https://impactalpha.com/going-big-by-going-niche-how-new-ventures-rodrigo-villar-is-specializing-for-deeper-impact-qa/ Obran’s worker owned cooperative conglomerate: https://impactalpha.com/worker-owned-conglomerate-obran-cooperative-gets-a-boost-from-acumen-america-investment/ And, why Surdna’s CEO Don Chen is all in on investing in funds led by women and People of Color: https://impactalpha.com/surdna-foundations-don-chen-high-risk-high-reward-impact-investments-are-paying-off-qa/⁠ --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/impact-alpha/message
6/27/202418 minutes, 58 seconds
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Roundtable: The backlash to the ESG backlash, who is colluding with whom?

Imogen Rose-Smith joins David Bank and Brian Walsh for a classic ImpactAlpha roundtable discussion about ESG, DEI, and public policy. Subscribe to ImpactAlpha: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://impactalpha.com/subscribe/⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ This episode featured music by Isaac Silk --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/impact-alpha/message
6/20/202424 minutes, 5 seconds
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ESG backlash in Congress and at Tesla, gender lens in vesting in LatAm; and Ava Duverney rewrites the Hollywood funding script

Host Brian Walsh takes up ImpactAlpha’s top stories with editor David Bank. Congressional hearings on ESG: https://impactalpha.com/political-risk-antitrust-hearing-escalates-republican-attacks-on-climate-action/ Shareholder votes at Tesla: https://impactalpha.com/elon-musks-pay-grab-is-a-skirmish-in-the-broader-battle-of-the-billionaires/ Women’s growing economic power in Latin America: https://impactalpha.com/in-latin-america-investors-see-economic-opportunities-through-a-gender-lens/ How Ava Duvernay flipped the script on how Hollywood funds films: https://impactalpha.com/ava-duvernay-impact-filmmaking Sign up for ImpactAlpha LatAm: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://impactalpha.com/latam-newsletter-email/⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Subscribe to ImpactAlpha: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://impactalpha.com/subscribe/⁠⁠⁠⁠ This episode featured music by Isaac Silk and by ⁠⁠⁠⁠Yurii Semchyshyn⁠⁠⁠⁠. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/impact-alpha/message
6/13/202416 minutes, 3 seconds
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Impact funds steer capital towards debt, impact fails in Africa, and Sam Polk of Everytable

Host Brian Walsh takes up ImpactAlpha’s top stories with senior editor Jessica Pothering. Up this week: This month’s list of impact funds actively raising capital: ⁠⁠https://impactalpha.com/impact-fund-managers-steer-private-credit-to-places-equity-fears-to-tread/⁠⁠ Liist submissions: ⁠https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScfm5qIOqogtbI3xRx4-0Xk2kh7VY_5x8wJKuLh6ZlXz2sSmw/viewform⁠ How Africa’s funding drought has claimed several once-high flying startups. How Sam Polk and Everytable are providing healthy fast food to California’s food deserts and uplifting communities. Sign up for ImpactAlpha LatAm: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://impactalpha.com/latam-newsletter-email/⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Subscribe to ImpactAlpha: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://impactalpha.com/subscribe/⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ This episode featured music by Isaac Silk, Yurii Semchyshyn⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠, Oleksii Holubiev, and Vlad Krotov --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/impact-alpha/message
6/6/202424 minutes, 46 seconds
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Hope Mago of HCAP: Finding alpha with a 'gainful jobs' strategy

Hope Mago of HCAP Partners, the San Diego private equity firm known for its ‘Gainful Jobs’ strategy joins David Bank for another in our series of conversations with Agents of Impact across the landscape of impact investing. and sustainable finance, from asset owners to managers and of course, founders and entrepreneurs. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/impact-alpha/message
6/4/202423 minutes, 28 seconds
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Climate on the ballot in Mexico, India and beyond; impact accounting standards; funding climate's missing middle

This Week in Impact. Host Brian Walsh takes up ImpactAlpha’s top stories with editor David Bank. Up this week: Climate on the ballot: https://impactalpha.com/mexico-chooses-a-new-president-amid-extreme-heat-and-little-urgency-on-climate-action/ Impact accounting standards: https://impactalpha.com/a-decade-in-the-making-impact-accounting-standards-advance-amid-investor-demand/ Bridging a ‘missing middle’ for commercial climate solutions: https://impactalpha.com/flexible-financing-to-bridge-a-missing-middle-for-commercial-climate-solutions/ Sign up for ImpactAlpha LatAm: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://impactalpha.com/latam-newsletter-email/⁠⁠⁠⁠ Subscribe to ImpactAlpha: ⁠⁠⁠⁠https://impactalpha.com/subscribe/⁠⁠⁠ This episode featured music by Isaac Silk and by ⁠⁠⁠Yurii Semchyshyn⁠⁠⁠. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/impact-alpha/message
5/30/202422 minutes, 27 seconds
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New impact products, investing in 'entrepreneurial households in industrious communities,' and the rise of workers

Host Brian Walsh takes up ImpactAlpha’s top stories with editor David Bank. Up this week New impact products: https://impactalpha.com/impact-products-aim-to-shift-portfolio-allocations-in-bonds-private-credit-and-cash/ Entrepreneurial households in industrious communities: https://impactalpha.com/calls/ The rise of worker empowerment: https://impactalpha.com/how-reducing-income-inequality-can-strengthen-the-global-economy-and-portfolio-performance/ Sign up for ImpactAlpha LatAm: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://impactalpha.com/latam-newsletter-email/⁠⁠⁠⁠ Subscribe to ImpactAlpha: ⁠⁠⁠⁠https://impactalpha.com/subscribe/⁠⁠⁠ This episode featured music by Isaac Silk and by ⁠⁠⁠Yurii Semchyshyn⁠⁠⁠. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/impact-alpha/message
5/24/202420 minutes
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Lafayette Square’s Damien Dwin: Investing in working-class people and places

As a lender to middle-market companies, Lafayette Square gives a discount to borrowers that adopt strategies to help their low- and moderate-income workers save for retirement, access health benefits, reduce financial insecurity and increase economic mobility.  Damien Dwin joins David Bank for an Agents of Impact interview. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/impact-alpha/message
5/23/202424 minutes, 37 seconds
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Chinese tariffs, the Global Fund for Coral Reefs, and valuing the care economy

Host Brian Walsh takes up ImpactAlpha’s top stories with editor David Bank. Biden’s new Chinese tariffs: ⁠https://impactalpha.com/as-trade-wars-heat-up-climate-investors-look-to-back-homegrown-challenger-technologies/⁠ The Global Fund for Coral Reefs’ efforts: https://impactalpha.com/global-fund-for-coral-reefs-blends-opportunity-and-urgency-to-finance-ocean-resilience-qa/ Valuing the care economy: https://impactalpha.com/valuing-the-invisible-work-of-women-to-build-resilient-economies-and-fight-climate-change/ Sign up for ImpactAlpha LatAm: ⁠⁠⁠⁠https://impactalpha.com/latam-newsletter-email/⁠⁠⁠ Subscribe to ImpactAlpha: ⁠⁠⁠https://impactalpha.com/subscribe/⁠⁠ This episode featured music by Isaac Silk and by ⁠⁠Yurii Semchyshyn⁠⁠. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/impact-alpha/message
5/17/202423 minutes, 34 seconds
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The opportunity in local climate innovation with VertueLab’s Aina Abiodun

VertueLab’s Aina Abiodun chats with Sherrell Dorsey about financing climate innovation with a justice lens, place-based investing, and worforce development. For more and a link to the video go to: https://impactalpha.com/plugged-in-the-opportunity-in-local-climate-innovation-with-vertuelabs-aina-abiodun-video/ And, check out our profile of Aina: https://impactalpha.com/aina-abiodun-vertuelab-centering-community-in-climate-tech-in-the-pacific-northwest/ --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/impact-alpha/message
5/6/202442 minutes, 6 seconds
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The state of blended finance, restoring forests and carbon market credibility, and investing endowments for DEI

Host Brian Walsh takes up ImpactAlpha’s top stories with editor David Bank. Up this week: The state of blended finance: https://impactalpha.com/blended-finance-rebounds-in-2023-with-focus-on-climate-and-bigger-deals/ How Big Tech can restore both forests – and credibility - in voluntary carbon markets: https://impactalpha.com/how-big-tech-can-restore-forests-and-credibility-in-voluntary-carbon-markets/ Why The California Wellness Foundation is putting a diversity, equity and inclusion lens on 100% of its $1 billion endowment: https://impactalpha.com/investment-manager-diversity-matters-when-investing-for-health-equity/ Sign up for ImpactAlpha LatAm: ⁠⁠https://impactalpha.com/latam-newsletter-email/⁠ Subscribe to ImpactAlpha: ⁠https://impactalpha.com/subscribe/⁠ --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/impact-alpha/message
5/2/202423 minutes, 24 seconds
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Franchising indoor farms to build a billion dollars in Black wealth

Loren Taylor and Zaru Systems want to build a billion dollars in Black wealth in the next eight years by franchising sustainable turnkey businesses. First up, modular vertical farms. Hear his conversation with David Bank on this week's Agents of Impact podcast. Subscribe to ImpactAlpha today: http://www.impactalpha.com/subscribe --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/impact-alpha/message
4/23/202418 minutes
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Building equitable food systems with reparative capital and community

On this week’s Agents of Impact Podcast, Sherrell Dorsey chats with Olivia Watkins of Black Farmer Fund. The fund aims to meet the modern needs of Black farmers and food entrepreneurs with affordable capital and technical assistance. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/impact-alpha/message
4/16/202444 minutes, 21 seconds
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Alison Taylor: The broken chain from transparency to accountability to corporate action

NYU Professor Alison Taylor joins David Bank to discuss the evolution of the role of business in society, and how regulation and disclosure affect impact. Alison's book: https://www.stern.nyu.edu/experience-stern/faculty-research/higher-ground-how-business-can-do-right-thing-turbulent-world Sign up for our free newsletters: https://impactalpha.com/browse/features/the-brief/impactalpha-open/ https://impactalpha.com/latam-newsletter-email/ Subscribe to ImpactAlpha today: https://impactalpha.com/subscribe/ --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/impact-alpha/message
4/9/202426 minutes, 43 seconds
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Building an inclusive economy through capital, community, and coaching with Lenore Champagne Beirne

Sherrell Dorsey speaks with Bright Ventures’ Lenore Champagne Beirne. about how she’s working to build an inclusive economy through capital, community, and coaching. Champagne Beirne founded Bright Ventures as a strategic advisory and executive coaching service prior to expanding to include an early-stage fund. For more: https://impactalpha.com/plugged-in-lenore-champagne-beirne-bright-ventures/ --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/impact-alpha/message
3/25/202443 minutes, 43 seconds
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Finding hidden impact and overlooked risks in municipal bonds

Featuring Activest's Homero Radway, HIP Investor’s Paul Herman, Kestrel’s Monica Reid, Matt Posner of Court Street Group and Lincoln Institute’s RJ McGrail. Check out the call recap: https://impactalpha.com/the-arbitrage-opportunity-in-high-impact-municipal-bonds-video/ Or watch the replay: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HQPh3XC9X1g Imogen's latest Institutional Shift column: https://impactalpha.com/dont-take-jeffrey-ubbens-shutdown-of-inclusive-capital-for-more-than-hes-worth/ --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/impact-alpha/message
12/15/20239 minutes, 30 seconds
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A tale of two COPs with Marilyn Waite and Dawn Lippert

Amy Cortese speaks with both Marilyn Waite of the Climate Finance Fund and Dawn Lippert of Elemental Excelerator about their experiences this week in the green and blue zones of COP28. Plus, Monique Aiken has the headlines.   --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/impact-alpha/message
12/8/202321 minutes, 52 seconds
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All eyes on Dubai as COP 28 begins with Stephan Nicoleau

ImpactAlpha’s Amy Cortese speaks with Full Cycle’s Stephan Nicoleau at the start of COP 28 to hear what he’s expecting - and hoping for - at the global climate summit in Dubai. Plus, host Brian Walsh has the headlines. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/impact-alpha/message
12/1/202320 minutes, 25 seconds
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Steering pension funds toward impact with Tara Mei Smith and Marcela Pinilla

Friends of ImpactAlpha Eric Horvath and Lucas Turner-Owens share an excerpt from their new podcast Impact(ed). They speak with Tara Mei Smith (Office of NYC Comptroller) and Marcela Pinilla (Zevin Asset Management) about creating change from the inside at pension funds, and their journey as women of color investment professionals. Plus, host Monique Aiken has the headlines. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/impact-alpha/message
11/17/202321 minutes, 18 seconds
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Lessons from the Wilmington coup of 1898 with Cedric Harrison

November 10th is the 125th anniversary of the only successful coup d’etat in U.S. history, which took place in Wilmington, North Carolina in 1898. White supremacists targeted Wilmington for it's multiracial democracy and prosperity. ]ImpactAlpha’s David Bank went to Wilmington and we’ll hear his conversation with Cedric Harrison, an entrepreneur building a business around recovering the history of that dark day.  David Zucchino's pulitzer prize winning account of the coup: https://bookshop.org/p/books/wilmington-s-lie-winner-of-the-2021-pulitzer-prize-the-murderous-coup-of-1898-and-the-rise-of-white-supremacy-david-zucchino/12471037?ean=9780802148650 --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/impact-alpha/message
11/10/202322 minutes, 27 seconds
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Maria Hollan of Timke Ventures shares her journey to impact investing

ImpactAlpha’s Dennis Price catches up with María Hollan, a second-generation steward of her family’s assets at Timke Ventures in Mexico City. Hollan was in Medellín at the GLI Forum Latam looking for opportunities to invest across asset classes with a gender lens. Plus, Monique Aiken has the headlines. Join Camilla Nestor of MCE Social Capital, Shally Shankar of AiiM Partners, Noramay Cadena of Supply Change Capital, and Samantha Anderson and Rose Maizner from Heading for Change, Wednesday, Nov. 15 at 10am PT / 1pm ET / 6pm London. RSVP today --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/impact-alpha/message
11/2/202314 minutes, 23 seconds
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What the mainstreaming of impact investing means for smaller impact fund managers

David Bank catches up with Courageous Capital Advisors’ Laurie Spengler to talk about what the mainstreaming of impact investing means for smaller impact fund managers closer to the problems and community-based solutions. Plus, host Brian Walsh has the headlines.  --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/impact-alpha/message
10/26/202310 minutes, 19 seconds
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Repurposing churches with Graham Singh, and a big ImpactAlpha announcement

David chats with Graham Singh of the Trinity Centres Foundation, and chats with Monique about ImpactAlpha's recent fundraise. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCHd3U3IOar-4cPkJqx9eZYw --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/impact-alpha/message
10/20/202314 minutes, 24 seconds
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There's a new impact lens in town

Unicef USA's Cristina Shapiro joins David Bank to introduce child-lens investing, a framework for considering investment harms and benefits to children, who have ‘til now been left out of investment decision-making. Plus, host Brian Walsh has the headlines. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/impact-alpha/message
10/13/202310 minutes, 21 seconds
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How Veris is rethinking due diligence to advance gender and racial justice

Roraj Pradhananga and Jane Swan of Veris Wealth Partners join host Monique Aiken to discuss how the wealth manager is investing in diversity, equity, inclusion and belonging. Plus, the headlines. Read the report: https://www.veriswp.com/deib-investing-report/ --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/impact-alpha/message
10/6/202323 minutes, 20 seconds
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Finding the 'worker-ownership edge.'

Host Brian Walsh shares highlights from this week’s agents of impact call, “The employee-ownership edge,” which explored the range of opportunities for investing in the conversion of companies to worker ownership. Plus, the headlines. RSVP for next week's LinkedIn Live with Sherrell Dorsey: https://www.linkedin.com/events/7112932484064968705/comments/ The call replay: https://youtu.be/Kii-53LJR8U?si=xyuQNO5-vdb0r0XD&t=4 Check out all of these stories and more on https://impactalpha.com/ --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/impact-alpha/message
9/29/20239 minutes, 51 seconds
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What is 'wealth supremacy,' how does it drive crises, and what can be done about it?

David Bank is joined by Marjorie Kelly of The Democracy Collaborative to explore the ways that impact investors both help and hinder systemic change. Her new book, “Wealth Supremacy: How the Extractive Economy and the Biased Rules of Capitalism Drive Today’s Crises,” is out this month.  Plus, host Monique Aiken has the headlines. Read part one of Marjorie’s essay, “⁠How wealth supremacy is driving today's crises⁠,” on ImpactAlpha. Check out the book here: https://bookshop.org/p/books/wealth-supremacy-how-the-extractive-economy-and-the-biased-rules-of-capitalism-drive-today-s-crises-marjorie-kelly/19486250 --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/impact-alpha/message
9/22/202325 minutes, 19 seconds
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Looking ahead to Climate Week NYC

Host Brian Walsh chats with Amy Cortese to set the stage for the UN General Assembly and Climate Week NYC. Plus, the headlines.  Amy sketched the landscape in “Protesters and investors to pressure global leaders at Climate Week NYC.” Here are the details of Sunday’s march, Climate Group’s event guide and Climate Tech VC’s cheat sheet to hundreds of side events. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/impact-alpha/message
9/15/20237 minutes, 49 seconds
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Revamped SOCAP seeks radical ideas and scaled solutions

David Bank catches up with Robert Munson, President of SOCAP and Managing director at the Sorenson Impact Center, who is putting together next month’s gathering in San Francisco. Plus, host Brian Walsh has the headlines. Get your tickets today: Oct. 23-25: SOCAP23 (San Francisco) (save $250 with code “s23_impactalpha”) Find all of the stories mentioned in this week's episode on impactalpha.com --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/impact-alpha/message
9/8/202315 minutes, 11 seconds
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Democratizing gender lens investing in Latin America

🎧 Impact Briefing. Pro Mujer’s Carmen Correa joins host Monique Aiken to share how the pioneering Latin American microfinance institution’s bonds are democratizing gender lens investing in Argentina. Plus, the headlines.  “With gender bonds, Pro Mujer puts Argentina’s capital markets to work for female entrepreneurs” Check out ImpactAlpha's new Career Hub! --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/impact-alpha/message
9/1/202312 minutes, 27 seconds
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Catalyzing capital to Indigenous communities

Host Brian Walsh shares some of the insights from this week's Agents of Impact Call, which focused on how resourceful entrepreneurs are tapping community lenders, private investors, philanthropic funds and public dollars to launch Native-led businesses, create jobs and provide vital services. For the full replay and roundup of the call head over to https://impactalpha.com/calls/. The rest of these stories are also featured on the site. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/impact-alpha/message
8/25/20237 minutes, 17 seconds
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Responding to legal attacks on racial justice strategies

Paris Prince of the Intentional Endowments Network joins host Monique Aiken to talk about how impact investors are responding to legal attacks on affirmative action and racial wealth-building strategies.  Sign the Fearless Fund petition: https://share.communityx.com/posts/3297045f-af18-4411-9fa2-82afddc6685a/ For more on all of these stories, head on over to www.impactalpha.com --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/impact-alpha/message
8/18/202324 minutes, 31 seconds
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Cash flows to ensure the water flows in Latin America

David Bank speaks with Hugo Contreras, who helped lead The Nature Conservancy’s efforts in Latin America to value, conserve and enhance our most irreplaceable resource, in the next conversation in our series from the Salzburg Global Seminar, sponsored by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. Host Monique Aiken has the headlines. impactalpha.com/subscribe --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/impact-alpha/message
7/28/202323 minutes, 30 seconds
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Insuring farmers against crop failures and climate change

David Bank chats with Acre Africa’s Niza Banda in the next conversation from the recent “Connecting capital to communities” gathering at the Salzburg Global Seminar, sponsored by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. Host Brian Walsh has the headlines. For the full story: https://impactalpha.com/acre-africa-insuring-farmers-against-crop-failures-and-climate-change/ Subscribe today: https://impactalpha.com/subscribe/ --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/impact-alpha/message
7/21/202319 minutes
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Putting Africa’s pension funds to work for Africa’s social infrastructure

David Bank chats with Musa Mabesa, head of South Africa’s Government Employees Pension Fund, in the latest conversation from the “Connecting capital to communities” gathering at the Salzburg Global Seminar, sponsored by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. Host Monique Aiken has the headlines. Read the full story: https://impactalpha.com/putting-africas-pension-funds-to-work-for-africas-social-infrastructure/ --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/impact-alpha/message
7/14/202317 minutes, 49 seconds
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Affordable housing for Mozambique’s informal economy

David Bank chats with Empowa’s Glen Jordan in the next conversation from the recent “Connecting Capital to Communities” gathering at the Salzburg Global Seminar, sponsored by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. Host Brian Walsh has the headlines.  “When there's no formality, there's no identification. Income is informal. The mortgage product just doesn't work,” says Glen Jordan of Empowa, a Netherlands-based social enterprise. “So we have to turn it around and create products that meet the needs of the informal market. And create structures that enable the capital to flow to those structures in a way that's cost-effective.” --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/impact-alpha/message
7/6/202316 minutes, 32 seconds
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Connecting Indian farmers to global markets

David Bank chats with FarMart’s Samridhi Singh in the next conversation in our series from the recent Salzburg Global Seminar on “Connecting Capital to Communities,” sponsored by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. Host Monique Aiken has the headlines. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/impact-alpha/message
6/30/202317 minutes, 36 seconds
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A century old model for affordable social housing with Michaela Kauer

David Bank catches up with Michaela Kauer of the city of Vienna to talk about that city’s model of social, affordable housing. Plus, host Brian Walsh has the headlines. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/impact-alpha/message
6/23/202320 minutes, 55 seconds
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Moving capital at scale to elevate communities of color with Valerie Red-Horse Mohl

Despite all efforts at diversity, equity and inclusion, little has meaningfully changed about how, where and to whom capital flows. Known Holdings is out to break the logjam once and for all. “Our goal is to shift capital through all of the ways of wealth creation” says Valerie Red-Horse Mohl, who cofounded Known in 2021 with Natalie Molina Niño, Jim Casselberry and Ushir Shah.  “We manage assets, we deploy assets, and we shift capital to focus on eliminating the racial wealth gap.” Known is the rare Black, Indigenous, Latina and Asian American-owned asset management firm. It has quietly attracted assets from impact investors looking to shift capital for greater impact. “We have big ambitions to really shift capital in significant ways,” Red-Horse Mohl tells ImpactAlpha’s David Bank on this week’s podcast. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/impact-alpha/message
6/16/202314 minutes, 45 seconds
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Institutional investors turn to climate

Contributing editor Imogen Rose-Smith joins host Brian Walsh to discuss why, despite the recent ESG backlash, institutional impact investors are doubling down on climate investing. Plus the headlines. RSVP for The Call: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/643783843807 --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/impact-alpha/message
6/8/202317 minutes, 27 seconds
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The ownership beat, ESG on the chopping block, and new tools for system-level investing

David Bank joins host Monique Aiken to talk about the ownership economy, ESG backlash and system-level investing. Plus the headlines. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/impact-alpha/message
6/2/20239 minutes, 27 seconds
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Capricorn Investments makes the outsourcing case to foundations and families seeking impact alpha

“If you speak to folks here at Capricorn, they'll tell you, ‘Great, we've built all this intellectual property around sustainability and integrating this into the investment process,’” Capricorn’s Kunle Apampa tells David Bank on the latest Agents of Impact podcast. “But we cannot get to where we need to get to if others are not buying into this model.’” Kunle is working to share Capricorn’s capabilities with other “asset owners that get it and are willing to put their capital to work as well.” --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/impact-alpha/message
5/29/202320 minutes, 32 seconds
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Why employee ownership is the next big thing in impact, and America with Jack Moriarty

Jack Moriarty of Ownership America chats with ImpactAlpha’s David Bank about employee ownership and new legislation to help investors back companies that are turning workers into owners. Host Brian Walsh has the headlines. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/impact-alpha/message
5/26/202321 minutes, 58 seconds
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Funding African tech entrepreneurs with Eunice Ajim

Eunice Ajim, founding partner Ajim Capital speaks with David Bank about her personal journey to launch the fund and her mission to support tech entrepreneurs in her native Cameroon and across Africa. Host Monique Aiken has the headlines. For more on Ajim Capital: https://www.ajimcapital.com/blog/ajim-capital-launches-10m-fund-for-african-companies-in-the-tech-space For more VC include podcasts: https://impactalpha.com/podcasts/ --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/impact-alpha/message
5/19/202311 minutes, 8 seconds
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The long and winding road to responsible private equity with Tensie Whalen

Host Brian Walsh is joined by NYU’s Tensie Whalen to hear why more and more private equity firms are starting to embrace impact as a path to outperformance. Tensie's article in ImpactAlpha: https://impactalpha.com/more-private-equity-firms-embrace-impact-as-a-path-to-outperformance/ --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/impact-alpha/message
5/11/202319 minutes, 54 seconds
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Finding alpha in racial justice and the challenges women face raising a first fund with Himalaya Rao

The BFM (Black Founders Matter) Fund’s Himalaya Rao speaks with David Bank about the alpha case for racial justice investing and the challenges faced by a woman manager when raising her first fund. Our earlier VC Include interviews: https://impactalpha.com/toussaint-bailey-uplifting-capital-bringing-the-quietly-bothered-into-impact-investing-podcast/ https://impactalpha.com/bahiyah-yasmeen-robinson-on-includes-three-drivers-of-inclusion-alpha-podcast/ --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/impact-alpha/message
5/5/202313 minutes, 59 seconds
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Neighborhood Economics with Kevin Jones

As the Neighborhood Economics conference wraps up in Jackson, Miss., Kevin Jones speaks with David Bank about startup capital for sole proprietors, Black churches as engines of economic development and how unusual strangers can become unlikely allies. Plus, host Brian Walsh has the headlines. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/impact-alpha/message
4/28/202319 minutes, 11 seconds
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Jacob Haar: Helping emerging market lenders 'leapfrog' the U.S.

The Co-Founder & Managing Partner of Community Investment Management joins David Bank for this Agents of Impact podcast. For a decade, Community Investment Management, an institutional impact investment fund has provided capital to technology-enabled, or "fintech" lenders to small businesses. Now, Haar and CIM are bringing their financial access solutions back to emerging markets. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/impact-alpha/message
4/24/202322 minutes, 44 seconds
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U.S. Financial regulations and over 40 years of Earth Days with Dianne Dillon-Ridgley

For Earth Day, Dianne Dillon-Ridgley joins host Monique Aiken to reflect on her four decades working in finance and on environmental and human rights issues. Dillon-Ridgley is the chair of the board of the Intentional Endowments Network, and has served on 23 US delegations to the UN, including the first United Nations Conference on Environment and Development in Rio de Janeiro in 1992. Plus, Monique has the headlines. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/impact-alpha/message
4/21/202321 minutes, 10 seconds
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Going beyond 'net-zero' in the public markets with Ariane Mahler

"Net zero is not going to get us anywhere,” Ariane Mahler of Veridien Global Investors tells David Bank on this week's podcast. “You need negative emissions, not just net zero.” Veridien’s forthcoming exchange-traded fund (ticker: CLIA) will include names in construction, waste management, agriculture and forestry as well as transportation and energy that “have as their main focus the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions.” Plus, Brian Walsh has the headlines.  Links: Veridien Global Investors: ⁠https://www.veridienglobalinvestors.com/⁠ Climate Risk Analytics: ⁠https://www.urgentem.net/⁠ Subscribe to ImpactAlpha: ⁠https://impactalpha.com/subscribe/⁠ --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/impact-alpha/message
4/14/202318 minutes, 12 seconds
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Training the next generation of impact investors with Adwoa Asare

The Turner Miint’s Adwoa Asare joins co-hosts Monique Aiken and Brian Walsh to talk about training the next generation of impact investors – and the winners of this year’s competition. Plus the headlines. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/impact-alpha/message
4/7/202320 minutes, 37 seconds
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In spite of itself, Texas takes on mantle of climate leader

From Austin, ImpactAlpha’s Dennis Price joins host Brian Walsh to discuss Texas’s surprising role as the U.S.’s leader in clean energy – and how the oil-pumping state might still wrest defeat from the jaws of victory. Plus, the headlines. Check up on this week's Agents of Impact Call at impactalpha.com/calls --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/impact-alpha/message
3/31/20239 minutes, 9 seconds
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How bank failures and interest rate hikes have changed the dynamics of impact investing.

Host Monique Aiken has the headlines and Atlas Impact Partners’ Robert Brown and ImpactAlpha contributing editor Imogen Rose-Smith join David Bank to parse how bank failures and interest rate hikes have changed the dynamics of impact investing – perhaps forever. “The current iteration of impact investors and advocates – those seeking to redirect large pools of capital – has thrived in the context of low rates, steady economic growth, stable geopolitical environment and favorable regulatory environment,” Brown says. “Throw all that out the window.” --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/impact-alpha/message
3/24/202324 minutes, 56 seconds
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Ben McAdams: Marrying public real estate and private capital

As mayor of Salt Lake County a decade ago, Ben McAdams was frustrated that there wasn’t $500,000 in a $1.3 billion annual budget for a promising early childhood education program (instead he helped craft one of the country’s first social impact bonds). But an effort he led to map the value of the city’s underutilized real estate yielded an impressive number: at least $15 billion, and up to $45 billion if properties are developed thoughtfully. “I found out there is actually money under our mattress,” McAdams tells David Bank on this week’s Impact Briefing podcast. “It's real estate that is just forgotten.” --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/impact-alpha/message
3/17/202326 minutes, 3 seconds
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Scaling purpose built impact with Priya Parrish

Impact Engine’s Priya Parrish joins David Bank to explain why purpose built investment firms end up with better impact outcomes than purpose driven firms. Plus, host Brian Walsh has the headlines. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/impact-alpha/message
3/10/202316 minutes, 57 seconds
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Sana Kapadia on the alpha opportunity for investors who are gender smart

2x Global’s Sana Kapadia joins host Monique Aiken to ring in Women’s History Month and talk about the state of gender-lens investing. Plus, the headlines. Relevant links from Sana: Website  Inclusive climate and gender finance report and launch event (March 14th) The Forum Currently hiring a climate lead --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/impact-alpha/message
3/3/202311 minutes, 58 seconds
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[Briefing] University of California’s rescue of Blackstone’s REIT

The roundtable – that’s Brian Walsh, Imogen Rose-Smith and David Bank – is back together to discuss private equity and, specifically, that $4.5 billion investment made by the investment office of the University of California’s Board of Regents into the Blackstone Real Estate Investment Trust. Plus, the headlines. Don't forget to email us ([email protected]) with your feedback, and check out the replay of The Call: impactalpha.com/calls --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/impact-alpha/message
2/24/202323 minutes, 19 seconds
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[Briefing] How Project Equity is turning employees into owners by surfing the 'silver tsunami'

Project Equity’s Alison Lingane talks with ImpactAlpha’s David Bank about the growing popularity of employee ownership as a strategy for generating wealth and democratizing the economy.  And, host Monique Aiken has the headlines. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/impact-alpha/message
2/17/202319 minutes, 45 seconds
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[Briefing] Finding the opportunities for impact investors in Biden's SOTU

Fran Seegull of the Impact Investing Alliance joins David Bank to talk about jobs, climate and communities in this week’s State of the Union address and to preview Agents of Impact Call No. 49. Plus, the headlines. RSVP for The Call: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/the-year-of-the-s-public-policy-for-social-equity-in-2023-tickets-538081796137 --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/impact-alpha/message
2/10/202319 minutes, 32 seconds
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[Briefing] Finding the opportunities in (and the problems with) muni bonds

ImpactAlpha’s David Bank joins Host Monique Aiken to to share some takeaways from this week’s Agents of Impact Call on the steps that some investors are taking to advance racial justice through the municipal bond market. Plus, the headlines. impactalpha.com/subscribe --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/impact-alpha/message
2/3/202313 minutes, 9 seconds
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[Briefing] Why development finance institutions are being pressed to ‘publish what you fund’

Development finance institutions are essential to the mobilization of capital to slow climate change and to meet the Sustainable Development Goals. So why do these quasi-public institutions share so little data about their activities? Jessica Pothering breaks it down for host Brian Walsh. Plus, the headlines. Next week's Call: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/520070213007 --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/impact-alpha/message
1/27/202315 minutes, 24 seconds
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[Briefing] Backing new decision-makers for the new majority with Demetric Duckett of Living Cities

For the banker turned impact investor, building wealth for women and people of color is as much about numbers as it is about equity. “The reason we are the U.S. and we are at the top of the heap, globally, is because we've invested in our prior majorities, which has been primarily white men,” Demetric Duckett of Living Cities told ImpactAlpha’s David Bank in this Agents of Impact podcast. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/impact-alpha/message
1/20/202325 minutes, 17 seconds
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[Briefing] How the Milken Institute is connecting disadvantaged communities with critical project development financing

Milken’s Dan Carol and Rachel Halfaker join host Brian Walsh to share how they are connecting historically disadvantaged communities with the huge sums of public and private financing looking for actionable green infrastructure projects. The portal, called the Community Infrastructure Center, launched this week at Milken’s Public Finance Forum. impactalpha.com/subscribe --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/impact-alpha/message
1/13/202321 minutes, 20 seconds
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[Briefing] How Dollaride is electrifying ‘dollar vans’ to boost livelihoods and cut carbon in New York’s transit deserts.

Host Monique Aiken and ImpactAlpha’s Roodgally Senatus chat with Su Sanni and Chris Coles of Brooklyn-based Dollaride, which is working with with climate and tech startups to electrify the city’s informal “dollar vans” and boost the livelihoods of drivers in New York’s transit deserts. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/impact-alpha/message
1/6/202320 minutes, 12 seconds
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[Briefing] Why Kristin Hull, an early Tesla investor, sees Elon Musk as an ESG risk

Host Brian Walsh is joined by Kristin Hull of Nia Impact Capital, a long-time Tesla investor who says Elon Musk’s Twitter escapades threaten the electric vehicle maker’s climate mission. Hull spoke to Walsh spoke about Nia’s public markets impact strategy, why they’ve shifted Tesla from their client’s funds into a separate activist fund, and when they might start to consider divesting altogether. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/impact-alpha/message
12/16/202218 minutes, 40 seconds
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Jigar Shah on the DOE’s $140 billion ‘bridge to bankability’

Jigar Shah, the solar and sustainable infrastructure pioneer who now heads the US Energy Department ‘s Loan Programs Office, joins David Bank to discuss the huge role that catalytic capital from the government is playing in the energy transition.  --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/impact-alpha/message
12/13/202233 minutes, 12 seconds
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[Briefing] Building Community Wealth with Aisha Weeks

Host Monique Aiken has the headlines and David talks with Aisha Weeks of the Dearfield Fund for Black Wealth about narrowing the racial wealth gap by expanding access to home ownership. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/impact-alpha/message
12/9/202214 minutes, 17 seconds
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[Briefing] How "ownership trusts" can help close the wealth gap with Zoe Schlag of Common Trust

Host Brian Walsh catches up with Common Trust’s Zoe Schlag, who is taking aim at U.S. wealth gaps by helping employees become owners – while enabling business owners to retire with purpose. Plus, the headlines. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/impact-alpha/message
12/2/202221 minutes, 40 seconds
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Seth Bannon, Fifty Years: Taking big swings at the world’s biggest problems

Seth Bannon, Founding Partner at 50 Years Fifty Years, joins David Bank to talk about tech talent, academic research and how the crypto crash might be a net positive for climate action.  --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/impact-alpha/message
12/1/202229 minutes, 9 seconds
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Toussaint Bailey, Uplifting Capital: Bringing ‘the quietly bothered’ into impact investing

Toussaint Bailey of Uplifting Capital joins David Bank from the VC Include conference in Berkeley. Uplifting Capital aims to broaden access to impact investors to high-net worth individuals and small foundations that are moving capital from public equities to private equities, but may not have an impact lens. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/impact-alpha/message
11/29/202216 minutes, 7 seconds
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Bahiyah Yasmeen Robinson on Include’s three drivers of inclusion alpha

David Bank chats with Bahiyah Yasmeen Robinson, founder and CEO of VC Include and Include Ventures, at their recent conference in Berkeley. VC Include works to accelerate investment into women, Black, Latinx, Indigenous, LGBTQ and other underrepresented fund managers — in order to drive economic growth through the power of diversity.  --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/impact-alpha/message
11/20/202218 minutes, 40 seconds
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[Briefing] Stephan Nicoleau shares an update from COP27

Amy Cortese catches up with FullCycle’s Stephan Nicoleau at COP27 in Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt to talk methane, governance and catalytic capital. Host Monique Aiken has the headlines. Check out this week's Call: impactalpha.com/calls, and all of our coverage at impactalpha.com --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/impact-alpha/message
11/18/202228 minutes, 39 seconds
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[Briefing] Ceres' Steven Rothstein on the midterm elections and COP27 and their impact on sustainable finance

Host Brian Walsh is joined by Steven Rothstein, managing director of the Ceres Accelerator for Sustainable Capital Markets, to chat about how climate investors are reacting to this week’s midterm election in the U.S. as well as the COP27 global climate summit. Plus, the headlines. Next week's Call: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/454045290687 --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/impact-alpha/message
11/11/202217 minutes, 13 seconds
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[Briefing] Morningstar's Jon Hale on the midterm elections

Jon Hale, director of sustainability research at Morningstar, joins Monique Aiken to talk about what is at stake for impact investors in next week’s US election.  impactalpha.com/subscribe --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/impact-alpha/message
11/4/202213 minutes, 53 seconds
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Optimizing the municipal bond market for health equity and racial justice

The municipal bond market has been called the original impact investment asset class, a source of capital for water, housing, parks, libraries, transit and other essential infrastructure. But laced through with historical biases, the U.S. municipal bond market has often been a source of racial harms as well. The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation has embarked on a broad effort to reshape the nearly $4 trillion muni market around health equity and racial justice.  Kimberlee Cornett, Senior Director for Impact Investments, and Zoila Jennings, Impact Investment Lead, for the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation join David Bank to dive into the burgeoning muni impact space.  https://impactalpha.com/browse/beats/locavesting/community-finance/muni-impact/ --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/impact-alpha/message
10/31/202231 minutes, 57 seconds
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[Briefing] Bob Eccles on the ESG Wars

Brian Walsh has the headlines and Amy Cortese chats with Oxford’s Bob Eccles about why the distinction between ESG and impact in investing matters more than ever. https://impactalpha.com/cant-tell-the-players-without-a-scorecard-sorting-out-esg-impact-and-sustainability/ --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/impact-alpha/message
10/28/202217 minutes, 42 seconds
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[Briefing] SOCAP is back in person

Host Monique Aiken is live and in person with Rodney Foxworth, CEO of Common Future, and ImpactAlpha’s David Bank at SOCAP22 in San Francisco. Plus, the headlines. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/impact-alpha/message
10/21/202214 minutes, 21 seconds
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[Briefing] Insights from 20 years of deploying "patient capital" with Acumen's Daniel Waldron

Host Brian Walsh is joined by Daniel Waldron, head of insights at Acumen, to discuss lessons learned from the non-profit investor’s two decades of deploying “patient capital” in companies serving some of the world’s poorest customers. Plus, the headlines. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/impact-alpha/message
10/14/202223 minutes, 13 seconds
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[Briefing] The Greening of the 401(k) with Zach Stein

ImpactAlpha’s David Bank catches up with Zach Stein, CEO of Carbon Collective, to talk about how average investors with 401(k) retirement accounts can start to shift trillions of dollars away from fossil fuels and toward climate solutions (3:00). This month's Liist: https://impactalpha.com/the-liist-seven-impact-funds-that-are-raising-capital-now-october-2022/ --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/impact-alpha/message
10/7/202218 minutes, 59 seconds
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[Briefing] Investing to support refugees and women

Dennis Price joins host Brian Walsh to talk about the new and growing opportunity in ‘refugee lens investing,’ (2:45). And, Brian shares some highlights from this week’s Agents of Impact Call (11:00) Watch the Call replay on Youtube: https://youtu.be/I0kz0W0dCBI or at impactalpha.com --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/impact-alpha/message
9/29/202214 minutes, 23 seconds
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[Briefing] Fall is here, and that means it's Climate Week in New York

Host Monique Aiken is joined by David Bank, who has been on the ground with ImpactAlpha’s New York “bureau” (Amy Cortese, Roodgally Senatus and Dan Keller), taking the pulse of investors and other stakeholders at Climate Week. Plus, the headlines. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/impact-alpha/message
9/23/20227 minutes, 53 seconds
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[Briefing] The state of impact in India with Shefali Anand

ImpactAlpha correspondent Shefali Anand joins host Brian Walsh from the  Impact Investors Council in New Delhi to take stock of the surge in climate and impact investing in India. Plus, the headlines. Agents of Impact Call replay: https://youtu.be/XlSfGZ7c9xE --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/impact-alpha/message
9/16/202213 minutes, 2 seconds
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[Briefing] Mapping Climate Capital and September's LIIST

ImpactAlpha’s David Bank joins host Monique Aiken to preview next week’s Agents of Impact Call. Luni Libes of Realize Impact stops by to discuss impact funds featured on this month’s edition of The LIIST. Plus, the headlines. Next week's Call RSVP: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/411553496587 This month's LIIST: https://impactalpha.com/the-liist-seven-impact-funds-that-are-raising-capital-now-september-2022/ --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/impact-alpha/message
9/9/202211 minutes, 44 seconds
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[Briefing] How, and why, to decarbonize concrete

Host Brian Walsh is joined by Roody Senatus to hear about some of the concrete steps being taken to address a particularly hard challenge: reducing carbon emissions from concrete. Plus, the headlines. More on Pakistan aid opportunities: https://www.linkedin.com/posts/kalsoomlakhani_the-floods-impacting-pakistan-right-now-are-activity-6969838421166989312-7s_X/ --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/impact-alpha/message
9/1/20229 minutes, 20 seconds
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[Briefing] Havell Rodrigues on the democratic approach to fundraising that's putting wind in the sails of new impact fund managers

New Majority Capital is one of a new crop of emerging impact investment firms that are turning to crowdfunding platforms such as Republic and Wefunder to overcome historic barriers to fundraising. New Majority's Havell Rodrigues speaks with Dennis Price about how the approach has worked for them, and the strategy they're using to seed a new generation of diverse entrepreneurs (3:00). Plus the headlines. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/impact-alpha/message
8/26/202214 minutes, 32 seconds
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[Briefing] The Roundtable takes on the anti-ESG ETF Strive, and more...

Host Brian Walsh welcomes back roundtable regulars Imogen Rose-Smith and David Bank to dissect the anti-ESG backlash and the Inflation Reduction Act. Plus, the headlines. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/impact-alpha/message
8/19/202223 minutes, 3 seconds
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[Briefing] What the climate provisions of the IRA mean for investors.

Host Monique Aiken is joined by Amy Cortese, who has been talking to investors -- including Full Cycle’s Stephan Nicoleau -- about how the inflation reduction act is resetting the table on climate. Plus, the headlines. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/impact-alpha/message
8/12/202211 minutes, 7 seconds
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[Briefing] Introducing The LIIST with Luni Libes and Zuleyma Bebell

Realize Impact’s Luni Libes and ImpactAlpha’s Zuleyma Bebell join Brian Walsh to discuss the LIIST, an exciting new sampling of impact funds and companies that, based on public or accessible information, seem to be in active fundraising mode.  The LIIST: https://impactalpha.com/the-brief-the-liist-of-open-impact-funds-evs-as-a-service-impact-tech-in-africa-federal-policy-for-community-solar/ Luni's podcasts: https://www.lunarmobiscuit.com/podcasts/ --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/impact-alpha/message
8/4/202215 minutes, 31 seconds
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Briefing: ImpactAlpha Open Launches

ImpactAlpha’s Zuleyma Bebell and Dennis Price join host Monique Aiken to talk about this week’s launch of ImpactAlpha Open, trends in the media business and why ImpactAlpha “dares to be optimistic.” --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/impact-alpha/message
7/29/20227 minutes, 48 seconds
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[Bonus Episode] Margot Kane on clearing obstacles to mobilize capital for emerging fund managers

“There’s an inherent power dynamic in investing. Full stop,” says Margot Kane, chief investment officer of Spring Point Capital, in an Agents of Impact podcast conversation with  Monique Aiken. A portion of their conversation was featured on the weekly Impact Briefing podcast earlier this month. Listen to the full conversation now! --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/impact-alpha/message
7/28/202223 minutes, 14 seconds
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Briefing: What Airlift's crash says about pandemic era VC investing

Jessica Pothering joins host Brian Walsh to dissect the crash landing of Airlift, and chew over the broader Covid-fueled boom and bust in instant grocery delivery in frontier markets. Plus, the headlines. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/impact-alpha/message
7/21/20229 minutes, 18 seconds
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Briefing: Investing thoughtful catalytic capital for emerging managers with Margot Kane

Spring Point Partners’ Margot Kane joins host Monique Aiken to talk family offices, emerging managers and catalytic capital. Plus, the headlines. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/impact-alpha/message
7/15/202222 minutes, 36 seconds
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Briefing: Politics and Power in Asset Management

Roundtable regulars Imogen Rose-Smith and David Bank join Brian Walsh to  draw a line from the massive fees in asset management to the recent raft of radical decisions from the U.S. Supreme Court. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/impact-alpha/message
7/8/202223 minutes, 25 seconds
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Patience Marime-Ball: Delivering higher returns and stronger impact with The XX Edge

Patience Marime-Ball of the Women of the World Endowment joins Monique Aiken on the latest Agents of Impact Podcast to talk about The XX Edge, her new book which comes out this week.  https://bookshop.org/books/the-xx-edge-unlocking-higher-returns-and-lower-risk/9781637630938 --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/impact-alpha/message
6/20/202222 minutes, 29 seconds
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Briefing: Emerging fund managers gather in Dar es Salaam

ImpactAlpha’s Jessica Pothering joins Monique Aiken to share the work of equity and debt capital providers in emerging markets, whom she met with last week in Dar es Salaam at the Collaborative for Frontier Finance's annual convening. Plus the headlines. www.impactalpha.com/subscribe --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/impact-alpha/message
6/16/202211 minutes, 13 seconds
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Briefing: Impact Investing and Coming Out

David Bank joins host Brian Walsh to discuss parallels between the LGBTQ+ community and the impact investing community. We also hear from Megan Kashner of the Kellogg School of Management about the genesis of Colorful Capital, the new LGBTQ+ focused venture capital firm that she has started with TIIP’s Bill Burckart. Plus the headlines. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/impact-alpha/message
6/10/20229 minutes, 5 seconds
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New leadership at Kapor Capital doubles down on diversity and impact

David Bank is joined by the departing and incoming leadership teams at Kapor Capital. Mitch and Freada Kapor, veteran tech entrepreneurs and investors, are handing over the reins to homegrown talent: Brian Dixon and Ulili Onovakpuri. David spoke with the four of them about the leadership transition, where legacy venture capital falls short, and how to get top-quartile returns along with impact and diversity.  --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/impact-alpha/message
6/5/202232 minutes, 35 seconds
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Briefing: Stephan Nicoleau on Davos and Moving Forward on Climate

FullCycle’s Stephan Nicoleau deconstructs the climate conversation at the recent Davos meeting of the World Economic Forum with host Monique Aiken, and points to some surprising opportunities for climate investors. Plus the headlines. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/impact-alpha/message
6/3/202224 minutes, 29 seconds
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Briefing: The promise and limits of institutional impact on public policy

Host Brian Walsh is joined by roundtable regulars Imogen Rose-Smith and David Bank to chew over what institutional and impact investors might – and might not – do when it comes to guns and abortion. Plus the headlines. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/impact-alpha/message
5/27/202223 minutes, 27 seconds
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Overheard at Davos: BlocPower and friends take on the world.

On this special edition, Roodgally Senatus catches up with ImpactAlpha's sources on the ground at the World Economic Forum: BlocPower’s Donnel Baird,  the City of Ithaca’s Luis Aguirre-Torres, and Jeffrey Dunston of the Northeast Brooklyn Housing Development Company, to hear how the world's business elite are reacting to their plans to decarbonize the globe while creating jobs -- one city, one affordable housing unit at a time. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/impact-alpha/message
5/26/202239 minutes, 49 seconds
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Briefing: Building the next-generation of diverse climate fund managers with Bahiyah Robinson of VC Include

CEO and Founder of VC Include, Bahiyah Robinson joins host Monique Aiken to talk about their mission to to increase the number of diverse managers 10-fold by 2030. Plus, the headlines. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/impact-alpha/message
5/20/202217 minutes, 24 seconds
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Briefing: The Politicization of ESG and Some Alternatives to VC

David Bank joins Monique Aiken to discuss the politics of ESG and the importance of flexible financing for startups and small businesses. Plus, the headlines. https://impactalpha.com/subscribe/ --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/impact-alpha/message
5/13/20227 minutes, 48 seconds
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Briefing: Alternatives to VC, from Community Rounds to Neighborhood Economics

David Bank joins host Brian Walsh to preview next week’s Agents of Impact call (3:45). And Bank checks in with Kevin Jones from the Neighborhood Economics gathering in Indianapolis (7:00). Jones is this week’s Agent of Impact. Plus, the headlines. impactalpha.com/subscribe --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/impact-alpha/message
5/6/202218 minutes, 59 seconds
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Jonathan Rose on building green, affordable communities of opportunity

On this Agents of Impact podcast, David Bank is joined by Jonathan Rose, founder and president of the real estate development company of the same name, to talk about building green and affordable housing -- something Rose has been doing since the late '80s. https://impactalpha.com/subscribe/ --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/impact-alpha/message
5/3/202228 minutes, 24 seconds
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Briefing: Offgrid solar, fintech, and other investment trends in Africa

Monique Aiken is joined by Jessica Pothering to explore the, yes, social impact of private investment trends on the African continent. Plus, the headlines. impactalpha.com/subscribe --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/impact-alpha/message
4/29/202213 minutes, 42 seconds
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Fairview Capital’s emerging wisdom about emerging and diverse fund managers

David Bank talks about diversity in asset management and allocation with Larry Morse, CEO of Fairview Capital, Christine Looney from the Ford Foundation and Najada Kumbuli, Head of impact Investments at Visa Foundation. impactalpha.com/subscribe --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/impact-alpha/message
4/26/202235 minutes, 22 seconds
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Briefing: Carl Icahn, Elon Musk, and activist investing in the age of ESG

Brian Walsh is joined by roundtable regulars Imogen Rose-Smith and David Bank to decide which type of “activist investor” Carl Icahn is – and what that makes Elon Musk. We also hear from Jah Koh of Lightsmith Group and Benjamin Njenga of Apollo Agriculture, both of whom were guests on this week’s Agents of Impact Call. Plus, the headlines. https://www.impactalpha.com/subscribe --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/impact-alpha/message
4/22/202223 minutes, 16 seconds
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Briefing: Catalyzing climate capital for adaptation and equity

David Bank joins host Monique Aiken to preview next week’s call on catalyzing capital for climate adaptation. And we hear from Jonathan Phillips of the Rogers Energy Access Project at Duke University. Plus, the headlines. Next week's call: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/313635681767 SUBSCRIBE TODAY FOR OUR BEST DEAL OF THE YEAR: HALF OFF. https://impactalpha.com/subscribe/ and use code ANNUAL50. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/impact-alpha/message
4/15/20229 minutes, 27 seconds
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Briefing: A Civilian Climate Corps in the Bronx, and 'Community Rounds' replaces Crowdfunding

Roodgally Senatus joins host Brian Walsh to discuss his story – and photos! – from the frontlines of BlocPower efforts to train a civilian climate corps in the Bronx. Dennis Price checks in with Wefunder’s Jonny Price and Fanbase’s Ramiro Canovas to learn why startups are turning their fans and customers into investors. Plus, the headlines. Roody's piece: https://impactalpha.com/inside-blocpowers-mission-to-upskill-workers-and-green-new-york-city-buildings-photo-story/ impactalpha.com/subscribe --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/impact-alpha/message
4/8/202211 minutes, 48 seconds
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Briefing: Political Risk and Impact Investing in Ukraine and Beyond

David Bank joins host Monique Aiken to recap this week’s call on how impact investors are approaching political risk and conflict in Eastern Europe and beyond, with call highlights from Jessica Bleyzer of SigmaBleyzer, Media Development Investment Fund’s Harlan Mandel, Daniel Kozlov of Global Venture Alliance and Open Road Alliance’s Caroline Bressan (3:20). And, TIIP has a new systems investing platform (9:45). Plus, the headlines (0:30). www.impactalpha.com/subscribe --> use code Briefing100 for $100 off your first subscription. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/impact-alpha/message
4/1/202210 minutes, 59 seconds
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Briefing: The SEC's new climate disclosure rules, Alicia Seiger's contrarian take, and next week's Call

David Bank joins host Brian Walsh to discuss the surprising breakthrough in the SEC’s new rules on corporate climate disclosure and preview next week’s Agents of Impact call on political and country risk. We also hear from Stanford’s Alicia Seiger, who has a contrarian take on the hot issue of Scope 3 accounting. Plus, the headlines.` Next week's call: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/298268478047 Subscribe today: https://impactalpha.com/subscribe --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/impact-alpha/message
3/25/202216 minutes, 56 seconds
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Agent of Impact: John Markoff on Stewart Brand

John Markoff, the longtime New York Times tech writer and author of a new biography of Stewart Brand, joins David Bank to talk psychedelic drugs, the roots of Silicon Valley and Brand's knack for being in the right place at the right time. https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/554161/whole-earth-by-john-markoff/ https://impactalpha.com/subscribe/ --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/impact-alpha/message
3/21/202230 minutes, 2 seconds
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Briefing: Confluence's Dana Lanza on geopolitcal instability, climate change, and justice.

Monique Aiken is joined by Dana Lanza of Confluence Philanthropy to hear about their annual gathering, and to discuss the crisis in Ukraine, climate change, racial justice and more. Plus, the headlines. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/impact-alpha/message
3/18/202219 minutes, 57 seconds
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Briefing: Women Driving Alpha, "Live" from Cape Town

Host Brian Walsh catches up with ImpactAlpha’s Jessica Pothering from Cape Town, South Africa to talk about women driving alpha in emerging markets. And we hear  from Harlan Mandel of Media Development Investment Fund on investing in a free press in countries that need it most. Plus, the headlines. impactalpha.com/subscribe https://impactalpha.com/how-six-impact-investors-are-giving-their-portfolios-a-gender-smart-boost/ https://impactalpha.com/seizing-africas-overlooked-investment-opportunities-with-an-inclusivity-lens/ --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/impact-alpha/message
3/11/202211 minutes, 33 seconds
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Briefing: The Weaponization of Finance and the Green Way Forward

David Bank joins host Monique Aiken to share a conversation with Jon Lukomnik of Sinclair Capital about the swift fallout from Russia’s invasion of Ukraine (3:20), the weaponization of finance and the Green Way Forward. And we get a preview of next week’s call from Duke’s Cathy Clark (19:10). Plus, the headlines. For all the headlines and more: impactalpha.com RSVP to The Call Jon's podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/outside-in-with-jon-lukomnik/id1587041255 --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/impact-alpha/message
3/4/202220 minutes, 43 seconds
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Briefing: Russian aggression, the materiality debates, and Carl Icahn's latest gambit.

Host Brian Walsh convenes the roundtable regulars, Imogen Rose-Smith and David Bank, to talk about the impact on impact -- if any -- of Russia's invasion of Ukraine (3:50), the disclosure/materiality/externality debate (10:00)… and pregnant pigs (18:00). Plus, the headlines. For more all day: www.impactalpha.com/subscribe --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/impact-alpha/message
2/25/202220 minutes, 20 seconds
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Briefing: Impact investing’s policy agenda, and the funky sounds and social impact of ElectroSpit

Host Monique Aiken and ImpactAlpha’s David Bank tee up impact investing’s policy agenda (and next week’s Agents of Impact Call), with comments from Satyam Khanna, ex- of the SEC, Cambria Allen Ratzlaff of the Human Capital Management Coalition – and Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen (2:50). And Dennis Price introduces Bosco and Maya Kante and the innovative ‘impact note’ with which they financed their company, ElectroSpit (7:30). Plus, the headlines. Next week's call: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/265261653747 More on ElectroSplit and the Kantes: https://impactalpha.com/impact-notes-help-entrepreneurs-recoup-equity-by-creating-good-jobs-and-community-wealth/  --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/impact-alpha/message
2/18/202212 minutes, 12 seconds
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Briefing: Carbon crypto, carbon markets and carbon quantitative easing

David Bank joins host Brian Walsh with updates from the carbon beat and highlights from this week’s Agents of Impact Call. Plus, the headlines. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/impact-alpha/message
2/11/202214 minutes, 27 seconds
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Briefing: The rising price of carbon and Kim Folsom of Founders First

Host Monique Aiken is joined by David Bank to preview next week’s call on the real world effects of a rising price of carbon (3:15). And, Dennis Price speaks with Kim Folsom of Founders First about flexible business financing to create jobs and wealth (5:15). Plus, the headlines (0:30). Next week's Agents of Impact Call registration: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/255708540127 More on Kim Folsom and Founder's First: https://impactalpha.com/founders-first-scores-9-million-to-deploy-revenue-based-finance-to-diverse-founders/ https://impactalpha.com/kim-folsom-founders-first/ https://impactalpha.com/impact-investors-turn-to-revenue-based-financing-to-bridge-capital-gaps-for-founders-of-color/ To subscribe to ImpactAlpha, click the link and take $100 off your first year subscription using the code Briefing100: https://impactalpha.com/subscribe/ --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/impact-alpha/message
2/4/202216 minutes, 16 seconds
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Briefing: Mixed signals in ESG and impact, climate meets crypto, and impact management and measurement tech take off

Host Brian Walsh is joined by roundtable regulars David Bank and Imogen Rose-Smith to make sense of the mixed signals in impact investing and the broader economy (5:50). Dennis Price shares a story on impact-management tech (2:55). Plus, the headlines. --> impactalpha.com/subscribe --> Imogen's latest column --> Dennis' story on Impact Measurement and Management --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/impact-alpha/message
1/28/202221 minutes, 15 seconds
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Agents of Impact: Finding the alpha in apprenticeships with Daniel Pianko, Achieve Partners

Daniel Pianko, Managing Director at Achieve Partners, joins David to discuss how his portfolio companies bridge the skills shortage in the USA with European-style apprenticeships. Daniel is also the host of the Better Money Better World podcast from the Impact Capital Managers, and as such, throws a few questions back at David.  impactalpha.com/subscribe/ https://www.impactcapitalmanagers.com/icm-better-money-better-world-podcast --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/impact-alpha/message
1/25/202229 minutes, 42 seconds
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Briefing: Larry Fink’s letter, BlocPower’s expansion, and Just Capital CEO Martin Whittaker

Monique Aiken and David Bank react to Larry Fink’s annual letter, BlocPower’s expansion and systemic approaches to income inequality. And, at (5:30), David catches up with Martin Whittaker about Just Capital’s “Just 100” rankings, stakeholder primacy and “Davos Man.” https://impactalpha.com/subscribe/ --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/impact-alpha/message
1/21/202218 minutes, 52 seconds
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Institutional Shift: 'Net-zero' becomes 'uh-oh' and other sustainability trends to watch in 2022

Dave Chen of Equilibrium Capital joins David Bank for our annual Institutional Shift look-ahead. For more coverage head on over to impactalpha.com --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/impact-alpha/message
1/19/202236 minutes, 5 seconds
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Briefing: The Roundtable looks ahead to 2022

Host Brian Walsh brings back roundtable regulars Imogen Rose-Smith and David Bank to take up private equity scandals, impending regulations, the tech reckoning, battling billionaires and, of course, “Don’t Look Up.” Plus, the headlines. Headlines: (0:30) Roundtable discussion: (2:45) For daily coverage of impact investing and beyond, head on over to impactalpha.com --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/impact-alpha/message
1/14/202226 minutes, 21 seconds
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Briefing: Diversity in Asset Management

Roundtable regulars Imogen Rose-Smith and David Bank join host Brian Walsh to talk about Imogen's Institutional Shift column, and Resilience Capital’s Gillian Marcelle and 1863 Ventures’ Melissa Bradley challenge impact investors to walk the talk. Plus, the headlines.  --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/impact-alpha/message
12/17/202121 minutes, 1 second
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Briefing: The Reconstruction This Time

Host Monique Aiken takes a look back on a year of conversations on The Reconstruction podcast with outtakes from Anne Price, Rodney Foxworth and Nwamaka Agbo. Aiken also looks forward to next week’s Agents of Impact Call on the series and what’s next. Plus, the headlines. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/impact-alpha/message
12/10/20218 minutes, 19 seconds
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Briefing: Stakeholder Activism and ReNewCos

Host Brian Walsh and roundtable regulars Imogen Rose-Smith and David Bank  take up the corporate trend du jour: spinning off high-flying green  business units, or ReNewCos, from legacy dirty assets, and chew over prospects for a “multi-movement engine” for corporate accountability. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/impact-alpha/message
12/3/202124 minutes, 22 seconds
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Briefing: 4 Takeaways from COP26 with Stephan Nicoleau

On this week’s podcast, host Monique Aiken gets an investor’s takeaways from the Glasgow climate summit from FullCycle’s Stephan Nicoleau. Plus, the headlines. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/impact-alpha/message
11/19/202128 minutes, 25 seconds
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Briefing: The Marks, the Gretas, and Inflation -- Oh, My!

Host Brian Walsh is back from Glasgow and joined for an institutional impact  roundtable by Imogen Rose-Smith and David Bank. They sort out the Marks and the Gretas at COP26 and chew on inflation’s impact on… impact.  Plus, the headlines --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/impact-alpha/message
11/12/202121 minutes, 25 seconds
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Briefing: Young Climate Leaders at COP26

Amy Cortese joins host Monique Aiken to share some of the powerful voices that have spoken so far at COP26. Plus the headlines. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/impact-alpha/message
11/5/20218 minutes, 57 seconds
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Agents of Impact: Solving for both unemployment & labor shortages with high-quality jobs with Rachel Korberg

The Families and Workers Fund’s two priorities are the modernization of antiquated public-benefits systems, particularly unemployment insurance, and the promotion of high-quality jobs that provide economic security and mobility through decent wages, benefits, training and working conditions. “This is a crisis," Korberg says. "But this is also a once in a generation opportunity for change." --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/impact-alpha/message
11/4/202126 minutes, 58 seconds
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Briefing: What's at Stake at COP26

Host Brian Walsh is headed to Glasgow for COP26, and looks to roundtable regulars David Bank and Imogen Rose-Smith for the lowdown on what to expect. Plus the headlines.  --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/impact-alpha/message
10/29/202119 minutes, 12 seconds
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Briefing: SOCAP Week

David Bank joins Host Monique Aiken to bring us some highlights of the many interviews and panels that the two hosted this week. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/impact-alpha/message
10/22/20219 minutes, 3 seconds
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Agents of Impact: MacArthur Foundation's Debra Schwartz

The Managing Director of Impact Investments for the Macarthur Foundation speaks with David Bank about catalytic capital, getting enterprises the kind of financing they need and how technology is driving down costs for impact solutions. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/impact-alpha/message
10/19/202138 minutes, 2 seconds
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Briefing: Institutional Climate Investing in the UK

Ahead of COP26 in Glasgow, roundtable regulars Imogen Rose-Smith and David Bank join host Brian Walsh to talk UK climate politics and investing. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/impact-alpha/message
10/15/202122 minutes, 52 seconds
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Briefing: Covering Black tech ecosystems, with The Plug's Sherrell Dorsey

Sherrell Dorsey, founder of The Plug, joins host Monique Aiken. The Plug launched a new site this week, and will be co-hosting next week's Agents of Impact Call. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/impact-alpha/message
10/7/202117 minutes, 14 seconds
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Briefing: Infrastructure and Impact

John Cochrane from the U.S. Impact Investing Alliance joins host Brian Walsh to sort out at least some of the policy developments in Washington this week -- and what they mean for impact investors. Plus, the headlines. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/impact-alpha/message
10/1/202112 minutes, 16 seconds
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Briefing: Climate Week

Full Cycle’s Stephan Nicoleau joins host Monique Aiken to talk about Climate Week, climate action and infrastructure justice. Plus, the headlines. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/impact-alpha/message
9/24/202121 minutes, 15 seconds
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Briefing: Carbon Lock-in, Stranded Assets, and Harvard's Divestment

Roundtable regulars David Bank and Imogen Rose-Smith return this week to join host Brian Walsh for a conversation about Imogen’s latest Institutional Impact column on carbon lock-in, stranded assets and yes, Harvard’s endowment. Plus, the headlines. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/impact-alpha/message
9/17/202121 minutes, 58 seconds
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Briefing: Universal Ownership and Active Stewardship

Host Monique Aiken is joined by ImpactAlpha’s David Bank to talk about universal ownership and active stewardship. And to preview next week’s Agent of Impact call, we hear a bit of David’s recent conversation with Hiro Mizuno. Plus, the headlines. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/impact-alpha/message
9/10/20219 minutes, 27 seconds
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Briefing: ‘Beta stewardship’ and hurricane resilience

Host Brian Walsh chats with ImpactAlpha’s Dennis Price and Amy Cortese to talk through some of their reporting from the week. And we hear from Sunwealth’s Jessica Brooks, this week’s Agent of Impact. Plus, the headlines. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/impact-alpha/message
9/3/202111 minutes, 50 seconds
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Briefing: Building Back Better in Haiti

Guest host David Bank talks with Roodgally Senatus about the earthquake relief efforts and growing up in Haiti. And we revisit, “How I Stopped the Taliban From Shutting Down My School,” the TED talk by Sakena Yacoobi, this week’s Agent of Impact. Plus, the headlines. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/impact-alpha/message
8/26/202110 minutes, 27 seconds
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Briefing: ESG Whistleblowers with Imogen and David

Brian Walsh enlists roundtable regulars Imogen Rose-Smith and David Bank to dissect ESG and Imogen’s latest column. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/impact-alpha/message
8/20/202115 minutes
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Agents of Impact: Edwin Datson on how to play the rising price of carbon

On the latest Agents of Impact podcast, venture capital and private equity investor Edwin Datson breaks down recent developments that are making carbon a hot commodity on global markets. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/impact-alpha/message
8/16/202128 minutes
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Briefing: BlocPower's Donnel Baird on the role of impact investors in equitable climate infrastructure

Donnel Baird, the founder of climate technology startup BlocPower joins Monique Aiken to talk about the latest IPCC Report, how he copes with climate grief, the Biden administration's infrastructure plans, and the role that impact investors can play in staving off the worst impacts of climate change. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/impact-alpha/message
8/13/202121 minutes, 56 seconds
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Briefing: Some Reconstruction history and looking forward to Black Philanthropy Month

On this week’s podcast, host Monique Aiken checks in with ImpactAlpha’s David Bank, who is in South Carolina’s Low Country exploring the history of the original Reconstruction. We hear about some of that history in snippets from David’s conversation with Penn Center’s Miss Gardenia Simmons-White and preview Black Philanthropy Month with Philanthropy Unbound’s Renee Joslyn. Plus, the headlines. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/impact-alpha/message
7/30/20219 minutes, 17 seconds
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Briefing: Private equity and ESG, strange bedfellows?

Roundtable regulars Imogen Rose-Smith and David Bank join host Brian Walsh to discuss Rose-Smith’s latest column on how private equity learned to stop worrying and love ESG. We also hear from Netflix star Cooper Connelley – a nice guy, loyal husband and impact investor. Plus, the headlines. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/impact-alpha/message
7/23/202115 minutes, 26 seconds
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Briefing: The SEC considers asset manager diversity disclosure

Monique Aiken brings us the headlines, and ImpactAlpha’s Dennis Price catches up with Illumen Capital’s Daryn Dodson about bias in asset management and what a new era of disclosure could mean for diversity in the industry. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/impact-alpha/message
7/16/202113 minutes, 23 seconds
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Briefing: Investors Eye Nuclear Fusion

Nuclear fusion: a grand climate solution or a longstanding pipe dream? A number of startups claim to be on the verge of technological breakthroughs that could bring fusion energy to the grid by the 2030s -- and investors are buying it. Host Brian Walsh is joined by Amy Cortese and David Bank to hear more about the growing interest in fusion, and one MIT based startup that's trying to bring it to scale. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/impact-alpha/message
7/9/202112 minutes, 3 seconds
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Briefing: PolicyLink's Michael McAfee and "The Curb-Cut Effect"

Monique talks with PolicyLink’s Michael McAfee about “the curb-cut  effect,” closing the racial wealth gap, and other takeaways from this  week’s Agents of Impact Call No. 29: Capitalism Reimagined. Plus, the  headlines. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/impact-alpha/message
7/2/202123 minutes, 9 seconds
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Briefing: Reimagining Capitalism

David Bank joins host Brian Walsh to reimagine capitalism. We also hear from Rev. Dr. William Barber II, PolicyLink’s Mahlet Getachew and Omidyar Network’s Chris Jurgens for a preview of next week’s Capitalism Reimagined Call. Plus, the headlines. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/impact-alpha/message
6/25/20219 minutes, 26 seconds
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Briefing: CDFI's and Juneteenth hit the big time

Lisa  Mensah, CEO and President of the Opportunity Finance Network, joins  Monique to reflect on our newest federal holiday, the sudden widespread  interest -- or should we say investment -- in community lending, and  today’s opportunity for a just Reconstruction. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/impact-alpha/message
6/18/202117 minutes, 57 seconds
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Briefing: Reimagining Capitalism, Comptroller Elections, Toxic Masculinity in Impact, and The Gates Foundation Falls Short

Roundtable regulars Imogen Rose-Smith and David Bank join Brian Walsh to re-imagine capitalism and review some of Imogen's recent and upcoming hot takes in her IA column. Plus, how the Gates Foundation’s strategy for global access to COVID vaccines worked -- or didn’t. And. as always, the headlines. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/impact-alpha/message
6/11/202116 minutes, 57 seconds
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Agents of Impact: Omidyar Network’s Chris Jurgens on the ideas, rules and power for a resilient 21st century

With Omidyar Network, ImpactAlpha is exploring emergent ideas, rules and power relationships of a resilient 21st-century economy. Visit the Capitalism Reimagined landing page for podcast summaries, as well as original coverage, impact voices, features and Agents of Impact. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/impact-alpha/message
6/8/202130 minutes, 9 seconds
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Briefing: Looking Back and Looking Forward

Monique brings us some highlights of her conversations with Tiffany Crutcher and Greg Robinson in Tulsa, Oklahoma, and Anne Price of the Insight Center for Community Economic Development in Oakland, Calif. Plus, the headlines. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/impact-alpha/message
6/4/20217 minutes, 13 seconds
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Briefing: Big Oil's Big Reckoning

Brian Walsh is joined by Amy Cortese and David Bank to break down the big news coming out of Exxon, Chevron and Shell. Plus the headlines. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/impact-alpha/message
5/28/202116 minutes, 59 seconds
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Briefing: Catalytic Capital and the Reconstruction

Host Monique Aiken is joined by David Bank to talk about financing the reconstruction with catalytic capital. Plus the headlines. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/impact-alpha/message
5/21/20217 minutes, 58 seconds
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Agents of Impact: Isaac Stone-Fish on ESG Risks in China

Transparency is elusive as investors assess governance risks in China. There are by now dozens of ways to measure corporate exposure to climate risks, but few good methods to assess the risks of exposure to China, and specifically to the ruling Communist Party. In this Agent of Impact podcast, Isaac Stone-Fish shares how he helps corporations and other organizations identify connections, dependencies and entanglements in the world’s largest retail market. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/impact-alpha/message
5/17/202125 minutes, 46 seconds
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Briefing: Risks, Returns, and Innovative Financial Structures

David Bank and Jessica Pothering join host Brian Walsh to talk about risks and returns – and explore innovative financial structures that are unlocking new capital in emerging markets. Plus, the headlines. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/impact-alpha/message
5/14/202114 minutes, 40 seconds
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Briefing: Generational Inheritance and Leadership

Host Monique Aiken is joined by David Bank to talk through some of this week's themes. Plus we hear from Kelli Saulney, a recent guest on the Reconstruction podcast. And, of course, the headlines. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/impact-alpha/message
5/7/20218 minutes, 45 seconds
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Briefing: Truth in advertising when it comes to ESG

Brian Walsh welcomes back Imogen Rose-Smith and David Bank to discuss the heightened regulatory scrutiny of impact and ESG claims. Plus, the headlines. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/impact-alpha/message
4/30/202118 minutes, 34 seconds
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Briefing: April 23rd

On this week’s podcast, host Monique Aiken checks in with Nathan Cummings Foundation’s Rey Ramsey and The Case Made’s Tiffany Manuel, and chats with ImpactAlpha’s Amy Cortese about climate action news. Plus, the headlines. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/impact-alpha/message
4/23/202111 minutes, 21 seconds
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The Reconstruction: Rey Ramsey on deploying 100% of foundation assets toward positive impact and racial equity

The Nathan Cummings Foundation says it has nearly fulfilled the commitment made three years ago to align 100% of its $450 million endowment with its mission goals – and confirmed that aligning foundation assets  with positive impact turns out to be a way to make a decent return as well. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/impact-alpha/message
4/19/202125 minutes, 29 seconds
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Briefing: April 16th

Host Brian Walsh takes stock of two of the premier showcases for student  talent in impact investing and sustainable finance. He chats with  Bridges Fund Management’s Brian Trelstad about this year’s competition.  And Megan Kashner of the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern  recaps the Kellogg-Morgan Stanley Sustainable Investing Challenge, which  also staged its finals last week. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/impact-alpha/message
4/16/20219 minutes, 15 seconds
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Institutional Shift: Credits for Cow Sh*t and Sustainable SPACs

Equilibrium Capital's Dave Chen joins David Bank to discuss the latest trends in instutional sustainable investing --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/impact-alpha/message
4/14/202131 minutes, 56 seconds
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Briefing: April 9th

Host Monique Aiken speaks with B Lab’s Andrew Kassoy about why impact-driven businesses and investors are stepping up their policy advocacy. We also hear from Dr. Tiffany Manuel of The Case Made, next week’s guest on The Reconstruction podcast. Plus the headlines. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/impact-alpha/message
4/9/202115 minutes, 1 second
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Briefing: April 2nd

Host Brian Walsh dissects former BlackRock exec Tariq Fancy’s recent takedown of ESG investing with roundtable regulars Imogen Rose-Smith and David Bank. Plus the headlines. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/impact-alpha/message
4/2/202116 minutes, 14 seconds
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Briefing: March 26th

Jessica Pothering joins host Monique Aiken to discuss how African entrepreneurs are stepping up with tech solutions to the continent’s challenges in agriculture, climate change and financial inclusion. We also catch up with Unreasonable Group’s Pratibha Vuppuluri and hear a snippet of next week’s Reconstruction podcast with Illumen Capital’s Daryn Dodson. Plus, the headlines. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/impact-alpha/message
3/26/202110 minutes, 41 seconds
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Briefing: March 19th

Brian Walsh talks with Amy Cortese about regulation crowdfunding’s big week, and we hear from Republic’s Ken Nguyen and Wefunder’s Jonny Price. Plus the headlines. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/impact-alpha/message
3/19/202115 minutes, 30 seconds
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Briefing: March 12th

Monique is joined by Erika Seth-Davies, a social entrepreneur in residence at Common Future, and founder of The Racial Equity Asset Lab, and ImpactAlpha’s David Bank to talk about the American Rescue Plan and, perhaps, a bottom-up Reconstruction... --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/impact-alpha/message
3/12/202114 minutes, 27 seconds
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Briefing: March 5th

On this week’s podcast, host Brian Walsh discusses the big private equity funds looking to make a splash in impact with roundtable regulars Imogen Rose-Smith and David Bank. Plus, the headlines. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/impact-alpha/message
3/5/202118 minutes, 30 seconds
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Briefing: February 26th

On this week’s podcast, host Monique Aiken chats with ImpactAlpha’s Roodgally Senatus about Bitwise Industries’ big raise and BlocPower’s Donnel Baird, this week’s Agent of Impact. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/impact-alpha/message
2/26/20219 minutes, 30 seconds
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Agent of Impact: Surdna's Don Chen

Don Chen, president of the billion-dollar Surdna Foundation, joins David Bank to discuss Surdna's 100 million dollar commitment to impact investing, as well as some innovative approaches they've taken to the COVID crisis. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/impact-alpha/message
2/25/202127 minutes, 18 seconds
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Briefing: February 19th

Amy Cortese joins Brian to bring us up to speed on soil carbon markets. We  hear from Gregory Landua of the Regen Network, Mark Lambert of  Re-Harvest, and this week's Agent of Impact: Charles D. King, the  Founder and CEO of the global media brand Macro. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/impact-alpha/message
2/19/202112 minutes, 3 seconds
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Briefing: February 12th

The headlines, plus Suzanne Biegel updates Monique on some highlights from this week's GenderSmart Investing Summit, and we hear from Bill Bynum, CEO of Hope Enterprise. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/impact-alpha/message
2/12/202113 minutes, 56 seconds
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Briefing: February 5th

The headlines, plus Brian is joined by Professor Tensie Whelan of NYU Stern School of Business to discuss her latest research into corporate board members ESG credentials. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/impact-alpha/message
2/5/202118 minutes, 17 seconds
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The Reconstruction: Melissa Bradley

1863 Ventures founder Melissa Bradley joins Monique Aiken to discuss how learning from history can create opportunities for equitable wealth-building. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/impact-alpha/message
2/1/202129 minutes, 2 seconds
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Briefing: January 29th

The headlines, plus Monique and David bring share a sneak preview of "The Reconstruction" our new podcast series and beat which drops on Monday. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/impact-alpha/message
1/29/20219 minutes, 8 seconds
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Briefing: January 22nd

The word of the week is: creativity -- Brian catches up with Upstart CoLab founder Laura Callanan, and we revisit the poetry of this week's Agent of Impact, Amanda Gorman.  --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/impact-alpha/message
1/22/202114 minutes, 50 seconds
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Briefing: January 15th

Monique is joined by Jessica Barron and Marion Johnson of Frontline Solutions, a Black-owned social impact consulting firm, to discuss their recent report Demoocracy’s Powerbrokers: Political Power of Women of Color. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/impact-alpha/message
1/15/202121 minutes, 38 seconds
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Agents of Impact: Jigar Shah

David chats with Jigar Shah, president of Generate, a San Francisco investment firm at the forefront of sustainable infrastructure financing. Jigar was co-founder of SunEdison, a pioneer of the “no money down” solar financing model that unlocked the solar market. He co-hosts The Energy Gang Podcast.  --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/impact-alpha/message
1/13/202124 minutes, 19 seconds
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Briefing: January 8th

David joins Brian to chart the year  ahead in impact investing with some help from Generate's Jigar Shah. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/impact-alpha/message
1/11/202112 minutes, 25 seconds
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Briefing: December 18th

David joins Brian to round up the ImpactAlpha week of roundups, plus we hear a few of Dave Chen's predictions for 2021.  --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/impact-alpha/message
12/18/20209 minutes, 16 seconds
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Institutional Shift: The Great Burp forward in 2021

Dave and David look back on some of the predictions from February's episode, and look forward to the trends we'll be seeing a lot more of in 2021. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/impact-alpha/message
12/18/202037 minutes, 4 seconds
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Agent of Impact: Zach Knight

David Bank speaks with the co-founder and CEO of Blue Forest, a nonprofit fund financing forest resilience through an innovative pay for performance model. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/impact-alpha/message
12/16/202026 minutes, 23 seconds
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Briefing: December 11th

The word of the week is "science", and the agents of impact are scientists... and David joins Monique to discuss deep tech investing. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/impact-alpha/message
12/10/20208 minutes, 19 seconds
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Briefing: December 4th

Dennis  introduces Brian to refugee lens investing, and we remember Tony Hsie  and his innovative community financing project in Las Vegas, plus the  headlines. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/impact-alpha/message
12/4/202010 minutes, 13 seconds
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Briefing: November 20th

Monique  follows up on this week's  Agents of Impact call, which put a gender  lens on the COVID recovery. We hear from Secha Capital’s Kuhle Mnisi and  Wukina’s Maureen Sibanda who are this week’s agents of impact. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/impact-alpha/message
11/20/20208 minutes, 22 seconds
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Briefing: November 13th

Imogen and David join Brian to discuss the word of the week: transition. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/impact-alpha/message
11/13/202017 minutes, 14 seconds
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Briefing: November 6th

What else? David and Dennis join Monique to discuss the impact investing narrative in a new political landscape... plus we hear from Amy Domini, Vikram Gandhi and the Rev. William Barber. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/impact-alpha/message
11/6/202010 minutes, 20 seconds
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Briefing: October 30th

Amy joins Brian to discuss the energy transition, and we hear from Kesha Cash, who just raised $55 million for Impact America's second fund. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/impact-alpha/message
10/30/202014 minutes, 36 seconds
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Briefing: Week of October 23rd

Amy Cortese joins Monique to discuss some highlights from SOCAP. Plus this week's Agents of Impact, voters. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/impact-alpha/message
10/23/202011 minutes, 27 seconds
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Agents of Impact: Dave Chen

In the latest edition of our Institutional Shift series, David Bank speaks with Dave Chen of Equilibrium Capital Dave about food system resilience in the face of climate change and COVID. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/impact-alpha/message
10/21/202026 minutes, 4 seconds
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Briefing: October 16

Brian welcomes back Imogen Rose-Smith and David Bank for a quick roundtable: ‘From ESG to impact.’ And, we meet this week’s Agent of Impact, the Nigerian activist Aisha Yesufu, who has been part of that country’s protests against police brutality.  --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/impact-alpha/message
10/16/202013 minutes, 19 seconds
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Briefing: October 9th

The word of the week is Reconstruction, and Monique catches up with Anne Price, Ronald Cohen and Sherece West-Scantlebury. Plus, the Headlines. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/impact-alpha/message
10/9/20206 minutes, 51 seconds
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Briefing: October 2nd

SPACs have come to Impact Investing... David and Jessica explain. Plus, we hear from this week's Agent of Impact Archana Soreng-- one of seven members of the UN’s Youth Advisory Group on Climate Change. And, of course, the headlines. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/impact-alpha/message
10/2/202011 minutes, 47 seconds
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Briefing: September 25th

Monique brings us highlights from this week's Agent of Impact Call on racial justice investing, redefining pro-business with this week's Agent of Impact RBG, and the headlines. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/impact-alpha/message
9/25/20208 minutes, 50 seconds
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Briefing: September 18th

It's a roundtable reunion with Imogen, David and Brian to talk about the latest efforts to re-imagine (or is it reset?) capitalism. Plus, Jeffery Ubben is this week's controversial Agent of Impact. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/impact-alpha/message
9/19/202015 minutes, 25 seconds
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Agent of Impact: Emmanuel Lagarrigue

Emmanuel, the Chief Innovation Officer for Schneider Electric chats with David  about decarbonized, decentralized and digital energy. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/impact-alpha/message
9/17/202027 minutes, 33 seconds
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Briefing: September 11th

Melissa L. Bradley of 1863 Ventures joins Monique to discuss her call to action for entrepreneurs, plus this week's Agent of Impact, Dave Kirkpatrick SJF Ventures, and the headlines.  --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/impact-alpha/message
9/11/202015 minutes, 39 seconds
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Briefing: September 4th

The headlines, plus Amy joins Brian to discuss small business financing in the COVID crisis and this week's Agent of Impact, Beth Bafford. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/impact-alpha/message
9/4/20207 minutes, 18 seconds
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Briefing: August 28th

Headlines, The Democracy Collective's Jessica Rose on employee ownership, and this week's Agents of Impact: basketball players. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/impact-alpha/message
8/28/202010 minutes, 9 seconds
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Briefing: August 21st

Why have there been so many agri-food deals lately? Plus, the headlines, and this week's Agent of Impact, Andrew Youn, co-founder and executive director of One Acre Fund. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/impact-alpha/message
8/21/20209 minutes, 49 seconds
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Briefing: August 14th

This week's headlines, David and Monique round up our "systemic investing" call, plus Maurice Jones is this week's Agent of Impact. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/impact-alpha/message
8/14/20207 minutes, 9 seconds
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Agent of Impact: Pete Stavros

The head of U.S. private equity for KKR, the international investment giant, speaks with David Bank about the employee ownership strategy that they've used successfully in the manufacturing sector. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/impact-alpha/message
8/12/202026 minutes, 38 seconds
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Briefing: July 31st

The headlines, some audio highlights from our latest Agent of Impact call on impact and the 2020 U.S. election, plus Dennis explains this week's theme... "purpose-built." --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/impact-alpha/message
7/31/20209 minutes, 15 seconds
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Briefing: July 24th

The headlines, plus David and Monique talk about Agent of Impact "Aha!" moments, and we hear from this week's featured Agent of Impact, CEO of Native American Natural Foods, Dawn Sherman. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/impact-alpha/message
7/24/20209 minutes, 35 seconds
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Briefing: July 17th

Blackrock  falls short on climate commitments, the Trump administration takes on  ESG, and a 1/10th challenge from Ceniarth's Diane Isenberg --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/impact-alpha/message
7/17/20209 minutes, 36 seconds
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Ceniarth’s Diane Isenberg

The  founder of Ceniarth -- a family office that provides capital for  positive impact in marginalized, primarily rural, populations-- speaks  with David about family wealth, catalytic capital and impact-first  investing. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/impact-alpha/message
7/16/202037 minutes, 44 seconds
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Agent of Impact: CDC Group's Nick O'Donohoe

David speaks with Nick about how CDC Group, the UK's Development Finance  Institution, is approaching risk during the COVID crisis, and more... --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/impact-alpha/message
7/13/202026 minutes, 55 seconds
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Briefing: July 10th

Monique brings us the headines and David discusses the word of the week: topple. Plus, your agent(s) of impact. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/impact-alpha/message
7/10/20207 minutes, 58 seconds
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Briefing: June 26th

The headlines, a new handbook aims to help scale up the amount of impact capital, and Dennis profiles Tynesia Boyea-Robinson. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/impact-alpha/message
6/26/20208 minutes, 59 seconds
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Briefing: Juneteenth

Monique brings us the headlines, Jessica chats with Candide Group's Jasmine Rashid, and Amy Cortese profiles Aurora James --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/impact-alpha/message
6/19/202016 minutes, 11 seconds
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ROI Interview: Andy Kuper

Leapfrog’s Andy Kuper on impact, exits and scaling growth in emerging markets through the COVID crisis --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/impact-alpha/message
6/15/202029 minutes, 34 seconds
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Briefing: June 12th

The headlines, plus Amy Cortese speaks with Philip Reeves and Todd Leverette about employee ownership as a way to help close the racial wealth gap. And Dennis Price profiles this week's Agent of Impact, Helen Adeosun. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/impact-alpha/message
6/12/202017 minutes, 20 seconds
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Interview: Joy Anderson

David interviews Joy Anderson, president and founder of The Criterion Institute. We spoke at the end of May about gender and the COVID recovery --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/impact-alpha/message
6/10/202029 minutes, 47 seconds
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Briefing: June 5th

Guest host Monique Aiken brings us the headlines, and leads a frank and personal discussion of the events triggered by the extrajudicial killing of George Floyd. She is joined by Living Cities’ Demetric Duckett, Colonial Consulting’s Angela Matheny and Castleberry’s Donray Von --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/impact-alpha/message
6/5/202039 minutes, 11 seconds
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Briefing: May 29th

The headlines, plus Jessica Pothering speaks with Aunnie Patton Power about redesigning venture finance, and Dennis Price profiles this week's Agent of Impact, Sarah Kerney from Prime Coalition. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/impact-alpha/message
5/29/202012 minutes, 12 seconds
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Agents of Impact Call 17: 10x’ing community capital

It could be that the crisis is the catalyst to finally strengthen and scale the small business finance and support ecosystem that has existed outside of mainstream financial channels for decades... --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/impact-alpha/message
5/29/20201 hour, 37 minutes, 42 seconds
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Briefing: May 22nd

The headlines, plus David Bank and Amy Cortese on what to do with the mountains of cash corporations have been sitting on, as well as this week's Agents of Impact: Andrew Behar and Danielle Fugere. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/impact-alpha/message
5/22/20209 minutes, 3 seconds
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Briefing: May 15th

The headlines, plus David Bank on "systems change," and Dennis Price profiles Heron's Dana Bezerra. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/impact-alpha/message
5/15/20209 minutes, 7 seconds
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ROI Interview: Visa Foundation’s Graham Macmillan

Graham Macmillan joins David Bank for a conversation about the Visa Foundation's mission... and how they're approaching it in light of COVID-19, supporting small and micro businesses run by women. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/impact-alpha/message
5/11/202030 minutes, 10 seconds
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Briefing: May 8th

Featuring the headlines, plus Dennis Price on a forgiveness and patience as catalytic capital, and a special Agent of Impact birthday surprise... --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/impact-alpha/message
5/8/202011 minutes, 35 seconds
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Briefing: May 1st

The headlines, plus Jessica Pothering on a microfinance lenders lessons from the Ebola crisis, and Dennis Price profiles Paul Farmer and Jim Yong Kim, co-founders of Partners in Health --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/impact-alpha/message
5/1/20209 minutes, 27 seconds
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Roundtable: Private capital for public good... or not?

Impact investing has posited the role of private capital for public good. The roundtable regulars - Imogen, Brian and David -- are back to answer the question: how is that position faring through the crisis? --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/impact-alpha/message
4/29/202037 minutes, 22 seconds
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Briefing: April 24th

The headlines, plus Dennis Price on Social Bonds as COVID relief, and David Bank profiles Goldman's John Goldstein. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/impact-alpha/message
4/24/20209 minutes, 11 seconds
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Briefing: April 17th

The headlines, plus David Bank on universal owners, and Lyneka Little on our Agent of Impact.  --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/impact-alpha/message
4/17/202011 minutes, 29 seconds
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Agent of Impact Interview: Tracy Palandjian

Tracy details a new career impact bond. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/impact-alpha/message
4/16/202021 minutes, 41 seconds
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Briefing: April 10th

The headlines, plus Amy Cortese on CDFI's bridging the PPP's equity gap, and David Bank on this week's Agent of Impact. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/impact-alpha/message
4/10/20208 minutes, 48 seconds
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Briefing: April 3rd

The headlines, plus Jessica Pothering on the affect of COVID on emerging market entrepreneurs, and Amy Cortese on this week's Agent of Impact. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/impact-alpha/message
4/3/20208 minutes, 48 seconds
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ROI Interview: The GIIN's Amit Bouri

Amit walks us through how Impact Investors of all stripes are stepping up to the challenges of COVID – and capitalism. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/impact-alpha/message
4/2/202028 minutes, 9 seconds
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Briefing: March 27th

Your weekly briefing from the virtual newsroom of ImpactAlpha focuses on resilience and disruption: headlines from ImpactAlpha,  David Bank on “making this s***storm matter,” and Amy Cortese brings us  this week’s Agent of Impact. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/impact-alpha/message
3/27/202010 minutes
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Briefing: March 20th

Amy Cortese on high impact small business loans, David Bank on this week's Agent of Impact, and your headlines from this week in Impact Investing. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/impact-alpha/message
3/20/20206 minutes, 17 seconds
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Briefing: March 13th

The  coronavirus pandemic has upended virtually everything. In the pages of ImpactAlpha, we focused on resilience this week, featuring Amy Cortese on global  energy markets, and Dennis Price with our Agent(s) of Impact. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/impact-alpha/message
3/13/202010 minutes, 4 seconds
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Briefing: March 6th

Carbon capture,  inclusive fintech, and creative arts investing. Plus, David Bank on how  COVID-19 is affecting the field, and Jessica Pothering profiles this  week's Agent of Impact. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/impact-alpha/message
3/6/20206 minutes, 54 seconds
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Briefing: February 28th

In your briefing this week: pandemics, leaks, and billion dollar funds. Plus, Dennis Price on emerging impact managers.  --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/impact-alpha/message
2/28/20207 minutes, 49 seconds
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Briefing: February 21st

Your impact briefing for February 21st, featuring the week's headlines, Agents of Impact, and new info on off-grid electricity in Africa. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/impact-alpha/message
2/21/20206 minutes, 53 seconds
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Institutional Shift: Calling the inflection point, and other trends to watch in 2020

Dave Chen of Equilibrium Capital joins David Bank to make bold predictions for 2020 on another episode of our special series: Institutional Shift. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/impact-alpha/message
2/6/202032 minutes, 7 seconds
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‘ESG investing’ crosses the chasm from early adopter to early majority. So what?

On the latest edition of ImpactAlpha’s Returns on Investment podcast, host Brian Walsh suggests that the ‘technology’ of ESG and impact investing has passed the early-adopter stage and entered the early majority, gaining momentum among companies, asset managers and banks. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/impact-alpha/message
1/30/202030 minutes, 14 seconds
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Blue like an Orange offers a report card for the Sustainable Development Goals

“The positive news is that more and more people know what we are talking about,” Bertrand Badré says on the most recent ImpactAlpha podcast. “The negative news is there is not enough action.” The former World Bank official and founder of Blue like an Orange Sustainable Capital (the name comes from a French surrealist poem) says needed changes in the financial system were not given enough thought when the Sustainable Development Goals were adopted five years ago. He’s writing a book on the topic; as a down payment, Blue Orange is releasing at Davos its internal rating system, SDG Blue, which scores investments against the SDGs in much the same way Moody’s scores companies’ credit ratings. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/impact-alpha/message
1/21/202040 minutes, 52 seconds
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The Decapitalization of the Fossil Fuel Industry

The Decapitalization of the Fossil Fuel Industry by ImpactAlpha --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/impact-alpha/message
12/20/201923 minutes, 57 seconds
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Cornerstone Capital Seeks to Prove Active Managers Can Deliver Impact in Public Equities

“Global thematic impact didn’t exist, so we decided to build it ourselves," says Erika Karp in the latest ROI. Cornerstone’s Access Impact Fund is a Nasdaq-listed mutual fund that for a minimum $1,000 investment offers access to sub-advisors looking for thematic investments in small-, medium- and large-cap companies across geographies. Karp, formerly the head of global sector research at UBS Investment Bank, is taking a stand on hotly debated investment topics that go beyond impact investing. She says active management, which has fallen out of favor because of high fees and uneven performance, is key to intentional impact. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/impact-alpha/message
12/3/201919 minutes, 59 seconds
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Sir Ronald Cohen: ‘We are overthrowing the dictatorship of profit’

The popular protests that drove the GSG Impact Summit out of Santiago, Chile, added “a poignant urgency” to the first day of the global gathering of impact investors in Buenos Aires, Sir Ronald Cohen said in a podcast interview with ImpactAlpha’s David Bank. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/impact-alpha/message
11/19/201920 minutes, 55 seconds
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Institutional Shift: Corporate Operations are the Front Lines of Sustainability

Dave Chen of Equilibrium Capital returns for another edition of Institutional Shift. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/impact-alpha/message
11/14/201936 minutes, 26 seconds
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Fossil fuel investments undercut major firms’ claims as impact investors

Now that big private equity players are spinning up impact funds left and right, the impact of the rest of their investments is getting a lot more scrutiny as well. ImpactAlpha’s roundtable regulars recorded a podcast episode keying on Blackstone’s investments in Brazilian agricultural processing plants linked to deforestation in the Amazon. But other private equity giants have stepped up with their own deals of questionable impact. As a source for stories, keeping watch on private equity impact is the gift that keeps on giving. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/impact-alpha/message
11/5/201920 minutes, 43 seconds
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Mispriced Climate Risks Signal Investment Shocks – and Opportunities For Action

In a counter-intuitive shift, the estimated four million global youth climate strikers who took to the streets last week may be more pro-business than recalcitrant heads of state gathering at the United Nations intent on slow-walking climate action. The U.S., Brazil and Japan, for example, have not even asked to speak at today’s Climate Action Summit, where 60 or so countries are expected to present more ambitious carbon-reduction plans. By catalyzing a powerful political constituency for urgent climate action, protestors may accelerate the low-carbon transition and soften climate shock. By most expert analysis, keep global temperature rise with 1.5 or even 2 degrees Celsius produces better returns for almost all in --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/impact-alpha/message
9/23/201927 minutes, 14 seconds
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Updated Corporate Purpose Signals Broader Definitions of Fiduciary Duty and Materiality

Updated Corporate Purpose Signals Broader Definitions of Fiduciary Duty and Materiality by ImpactAlpha --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/impact-alpha/message
8/29/201927 minutes, 20 seconds
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Overcoming Systemic Bias in Investing Means Challenging Power and Pattern Matching

Overcoming Systemic Bias in Investing Means Challenging Power and Pattern Matching by ImpactAlpha --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/impact-alpha/message
8/27/201928 minutes, 21 seconds
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Memo to Candidates: Impact Investors Have a Quality Jobs Agenda

The latest Returns on Investment podcast takes on the challenge of how investors can help make sure workers get a better shake. In a low-unemployment economy, it’s not only jobs, but quality jobs that are needed to drive broader prosperity that is inclusive of workers of all ages and skills. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/impact-alpha/message
7/29/201923 minutes, 36 seconds
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Resistance Meets Revival to Renew the Political Discourse

The roundtable regulars aim to trace the connections between the impact investing project writ large and the current political climate, without violating our pledge against armchair analysis of electability, swing-state appeal or fundraising prowess. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/impact-alpha/message
6/18/201920 minutes, 3 seconds
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Investment Trends to Watch in the Second Half of 2019

On the latest episode of our special Institutional Shift series of conversations, Dave Chen and David Bank review their predictions from six months ago and look ahead to 2020. On the docket: climate-change investing, plastics, market segmentation, and product development. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/impact-alpha/message
6/12/201929 minutes, 19 seconds
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Goldman Sachs’ Hugh Lawson on How Climate Change Is Changing Asset Management

A changing climate is changing the climate inside one of the world’s largest asset managers. Clients of Goldman Sachs Assets Management, which manages assets on behalf of wealthy families, pensions and foundations, endowments and insurance companies. These parties have always expected the firm to recite key financial metrics about the companies they own. But increasingly, says Hugh Lawson, the head of ESG and impact investing at Goldman, clients are demanding the big Wall Street money manager know more about the qualitative aspects of what those businesses do and how they do it. In the latest episode of ImpactAlpha’s Returns on Investment podcast, David Bank dug in with Lawson about how greater investor urgency around climate, and confidence in low-carbon investment strategies, is changing investing (or isn’t). --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/impact-alpha/message
6/5/201939 minutes, 27 seconds
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Beyond Tradeoffs: Blue Haven uses flexibility to drive impact across portfolios

One perk of both owning and managing your own capital: you get to set the rules. Blue Haven Initiative, the $500 million family office of Liesel Pritzker Simmons and Ian Simmons, has for a decade committed to integrate impact across 100% of its investable portfolio. In episode 7 of Beyond Tradeoffs, David speaks with Liesel about Blue Haven's approach. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/impact-alpha/message
5/28/201925 minutes, 12 seconds
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Beyond Tradeoffs: Growing demand, growing companies and growing opportunities for impact at scale

In episode 6 of Beyond Tradeoffs, David speaks with Sandeep Farias of Elevar Equity about their approach to early stage investing in developing markets. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/impact-alpha/message
5/23/201924 minutes, 37 seconds
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Beyond Tradeoffs: Finding mispriced risks in affordable housing, quality jobs and diverse managers

On episode 5 of our special series, Beyond Tradeoffs, produced in collaboration with Omidyar Network, David interviews Roy Swan and Christine Looney about Ford Foundations Mission Investment strategy. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/impact-alpha/message
5/20/201927 minutes, 39 seconds
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Beyond Tradeoffs: How Lok Blends Commercial Capital and Smart Subsidies for Transformative Impact

In Episode 4 of ROI's Beyond Trade-offs series, produced in collaboration with Omidyar Network, Vishal Mehta of Lok Capital recalls how the Delhi-based impact investor blended venture capital and grant funding to build markets for financial services, health care and education for low-income Indians. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/impact-alpha/message
5/16/201927 minutes, 54 seconds
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Beyond Tradeoffs: An 80/20 Rule Helps an Institutional Impact Investor Manage Risks

Today on ROI, we feature an interview with Ommeed Sathe of Prudential Financial in the third episode of Beyond Tradeoffs, produced in collaboration with Omidyar Network. Prudential, a serious institutional investor with nearly $1.4 trillion in assets, is demonstrating that is possible to incorporate impact strategies within the norms and constraints faced by institutional investors. Their $800 million impact portfolio is invested with a specific mandate to show measurable benefits in financial inclusion, affordable housing preservation, educational excellence, workforce development and sustainable agriculture and other areas. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/impact-alpha/message
5/13/201930 minutes, 2 seconds
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Beyond Tradeoffs: Big Investors Press Asset Managers to Integrate ‘ESG’ and Impact Across Portfolios

In the second episode of ImpactAlpha’s “Beyond Trade-offs” podcast series, produced in collaboration with Omidyar Network, Goldman Sachs’ John Goldstein charts the development of “risk-return-impact” frameworks that meet the needs of institutional investors. One of his jobs, he says, “is to help Goldman’s investors do better at doing what they do by incorporating environmental, social and governance into how we invest for all our clients.” --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/impact-alpha/message
5/9/201930 minutes, 24 seconds
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Beyond Tradeoffs: Omidyar Network's Investments Across the Continuum of Returns

In a new series of podcasts produced in collaboration with Omidyar Network, ImpactAlpha asked a range of investors, from fully “market-rate,” to unapologetically concessionary, what lies… Beyond Tradeoffs. What we heard is that investors of all types are finding strategies to avoid specific and systemic risks, to be aligned with long-term trends, to generate tangible and measureable social and environmental benefits and to otherwise meet their objectives – all along the continuum of risks and returns. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/impact-alpha/message
5/6/201942 minutes, 48 seconds
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Eric Glass Makes the Case for Municipal Bonds as Impact

Hidden within the $3.8 trillion market for U.S. municipal bonds are not only mispriced social and environmental risks, but huge potential for on-the-ground impact in historically disadvantaged neighborhoods. On this episode, David Bank chats with Eric Glass about how Alliance-Bernstein approaches municipal bonds with an impact lens. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/impact-alpha/message
4/18/201926 minutes, 51 seconds
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Making the ‘S’ in ESG stand for ‘Share the Wealth’

According to billionaire hedge fund manager Ray Dalio, capitalism is not working well for the majority of Americans. In a recent essay he argues that it is producing self-reinforcing spirals up for the haves and down for the have-nots and that these conditions pose an existential risk for the U.S. In the latest episode of ImpactAlpha’s Returns on Investment podcast, the roundtable regulars took up the challenge as well, with a provocative discussion of inequality and the age-old tension between capital and labor. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/impact-alpha/message
4/15/201925 minutes, 45 seconds
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The ‘Red Ferrari Syndrome’ and Other Lessons of Impact Investing’s Varsity Blues Scandal

The dramatic fall from grace of Bill McGlashan, co-founder and former CEO of TPG Growth and The Rise Fund, after being indicted in the Varsity Blues college-admissions scandal, Rose-Smith suggests, may say more about private-equity and alternative-investment asset management in general than about impact investing in particular. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/impact-alpha/message
3/25/201927 minutes, 17 seconds
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Is it Impact Investing When Billionaires Buy Newspapers and Magazines?

Are newspapers and newsmagazines "impact investments"? And are the billionaires who buy them making a positive impact? Listen in as David, Imogen, and Brian take up the topic of impact investing in news media on the latest episode of ROI --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/impact-alpha/message
2/25/201918 minutes, 58 seconds
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No Need to Wait for Washington to Mobilize Around a ‘Green New Deal’

Newly elected Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has galvanized the political debate with a proposed Green New Deal that would rely primarily on government financing to pay for the required investments in climate-friendly agriculture, transportation, buildings, manufacturing and, of course, energy. In the latest Returns on Investment podcast, roundtable regulars Brian Walsh and Imogen Rose-Smith tried to force ImpactAlpha’s David Bank into his own awkward choice: private capital or government funding? --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/impact-alpha/message
2/13/201919 minutes, 4 seconds
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Risky Business: Corporations Need Market Signals to Reduce Climate Risks

Will it be risk – rather than returns – that drives impact investment? Major companies are starting to face the very practical implications of climate change, as indicated by responses to CDP, the U.K. organization formerly known as the Carbon Disclosure Project. The latest episode of ImpactAlpha’s Returns on Investment podcast explores the connection between such risks and the mobilization of investment to address them. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/impact-alpha/message
1/30/201918 minutes, 22 seconds
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If ‘ESG Investing’ is So Great, Why is the World Going to Hell?

The three-letter acronym for “environmental, social and governance” has broken out from the wonky world of finance and into subway ads and online pitches for a slew of new ESG mutual funds, ETFs and other financial services. How such “non-financial” factors affect financial performance has been a matter of hot debate for several years. As ESG breaks into the mainstream, the podcast’s roundtable regulars took on a tougher question is: Does it make a bit of difference in the real world? --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/impact-alpha/message
1/23/201922 minutes, 56 seconds
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Institutional Shift: Climate Risk Hits the Market and Other Impact Investing Trends to Watch in 2019

Join us for half-dozen or so forecasts from Equilibrium Capital's Dave Chen, who returned to ImpactAlpha's Returns on Investment podcast for a New Year's check-in on the progress of the "institutional shift" in impact investing. As Dave says, "Everybody loves a list." --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/impact-alpha/message
1/9/201945 minutes, 23 seconds
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The Impact Alpha Report: Can Impact be a Driver, Dot a Drag, on Returns?

We ring a bell and joke about taking a drink every time we can work the phrase “impact alpha” into a Returns on Investment podcast. We had to suspend the stunt to discuss a new report,“The Alpha in Impact.” The report pulled back the curtain on 29 investments from 13 funds to demonstrate that impact be a driver of returns, not just a drag. Our roundtable regulars discuss. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/impact-alpha/message
12/21/201826 minutes, 28 seconds
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Climate Signals Blinking Red, a Test for Global Leadership at COP24

As the climate hangs in the balance, policy momentum, investor sentiment and most of all global leadership will be crucial to sustain the global energy transition and, while we’re at it, economic transformation, that are both so urgently needed. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/impact-alpha/message
12/10/201823 minutes, 12 seconds
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Taking Sustainable Investing to the Next Level, Sooner Than Later

In late October 2018 US-SIF released their bi-annual report measuring the size of the impact market. By their calculations, responsible and impact investments now total 12 trillion dollars in the United States - representing a quarter of all US assets under professional management. Can this amount, a 38% increase since 2016, be seen as an unmitigated success? "Not so fast," cautions the ROI roundtable. Listen in to find out why we're not ready to declare impact victory quite yet. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/impact-alpha/message
11/28/201819 minutes, 16 seconds
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Infrastructure Hopes Spring Eternal. What’s Impact Got to Do With It?

When 2019 comes around congress will once again be divided. Could an impact oriented infrastructure bill make it to the president's desk? Our roundtable discusses. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/impact-alpha/message
11/14/201818 minutes, 12 seconds
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Doing Good While Eating and Drinking Well (podcast)

ImpactAlpha’s editor and CEO David Bank and Paul van Zyl talk about impact investing and social entrepreneurship from the Conduit in London. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/impact-alpha/message
11/7/201826 minutes, 1 second
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Shining a Spotlight, er, Podcast on the Business of ImpactAlpha Itself

In its daily Brief and on its website, ImpactAlpha writes a lot about the challenges and triumphs of impact entrepreneurs. In this week’s Returns on Invesment podcast, host Brian Walsh put the questions to the company’s own mission-driven entrepreneurs: How’s the business going? --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/impact-alpha/message
10/29/201816 minutes, 41 seconds
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Institutional Shift: Impact Investing on the Hot Seat at Global Pension Funds

Join David Bank and Dave Chen as they continue our special series, Institutional Shift. The latest episode of ImpactAlpha’s Returns on Investment podcast takes stock of the state of impact investing at pension funds and other large institutional investors. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/impact-alpha/message
10/11/201822 minutes, 42 seconds
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Global Energy Access is an Impact Investment Even Curmudgeons Can Love

Lower-than-expected risk. Higher-than-expected impact. Access to off-grid electricity is emerging as an impact investing success story across the developing world. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/impact-alpha/message
9/26/201820 minutes, 6 seconds
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Beware Cures for ‘Impact-Washing’ That May Be Worse Than the Disease

The impact investing community seems to be in one of its cyclical discussions about who and what should count as impact. The latest Returns on Investment podcast takes up the growing concern about “impact-washing,” the use of impact jargon or marketing to raise money or burnish reputations without delivering real impact or, in some cases, causing negative impacts. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/impact-alpha/message
9/10/201827 minutes, 1 second
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Getting to Yes

What will it take for investors to make the big bets? ImpactAlpha’s latest Returns on Investment podcast took on what roundtable regular Imogen Rose-Smith, an investment fellow at the University of California, called “the disconnect between rhetoric and reality.” --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/impact-alpha/message
8/28/201823 minutes, 45 seconds
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Will Abraaj’s ambitious global health strategy survive the scandal?

The latest Returns on Investment podcast takes up the case of the $1 billion Abraaj Growth Markets Health Fund and impact investing failures more broadly. The health fund, which was pursuing an ambitious effort to build comprehensive healthcare networks in the megacities of the 21st century – think Lagos and Karachi and Mumbai – is now embroiled in the larger scandal that has engulfed Abraaj Group. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/impact-alpha/message
7/16/201825 minutes, 18 seconds
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Can Impact Investments Build Popular Support for Inclusive, Sustainable and, Yes, Global Prosperity?

Impact investing types, it seems, are proud globalists. That optimistic, connected, cross-border approach to challenges, solutions and human relationships puts them in a unique position in this peculiar historic moment when walls are going up and strangers are suspect. At the same time, the essential precondition of investing – having capital to invest – means most investors are largely distant from the lived experience of many of the people their investments are purported to benefit. ImpactAlpha's roundtable regulars take on the contradictions of globalism. (Photo: Top view of 1765 de l'Isle globe A 1765 de l'Isle globe, showing top view. Collection of the Minnesota Historical Society.) --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/impact-alpha/message
7/2/201823 minutes, 12 seconds
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The M-word: Investors bring ESG into the material world.

In the latest Returns on Investment podcast, our roundtable regulars take up the April memo from the Department of Labor that tried, albeit weakly, to walk back the Obama-era guidance about how fiduciaries could consider ESG factors. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/impact-alpha/message
6/19/201827 minutes, 45 seconds
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Institutional Shift: Long-term asset owners move to future-proof their portfolios

The obsession with financial returns that for decades kept major institutional investors away is now pushing them towards a serious accounting of environmental risks. Ashby Monk joins Dave Chen, the chair of Equilibrium Capital, and David Bank, editor of Impact Alpha, on this episode of Returns on Investment: Institutional Shift. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/impact-alpha/message
6/5/201836 minutes, 52 seconds
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Lata Reddy: Prudential Financial's Investment in Equity and Inclusion - and Newark

A few years ago the Prudential Foundation committed to reaching a billion dollar impact portfolio by 2020, and they're well on their way to reaching that goal. On this episode of ROI, David Bank sits down with Lata Reddy, the Senior Vice President of Diversity, Inclusion & Impact at Prudential Financial and Chair and President of The Prudential Foundation to discuss the impact fund, their place based investing strategy, and the role of mission investing in the fight for social justice. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/impact-alpha/message
5/21/201819 minutes, 42 seconds
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Pain Killers: How Can Impact Investors Help Stop the Opioid Addiction Epidemic?

If impact investors are worth their salt, they’ll soon –– if not soon enough –– come up with a whole raft of investible solutions to the crushing burden of opioid addiction. The problem may have snuck up over the past decade, but there’s no escaping the costs of the crisis now. As many as 23 million addicts in the U.S. More than 64,000 overdose deaths, most of them opioid-related. The annual economic cost: an estimated $193 billion. On this episode of ROI, our panel discusses where impact investors can have a role in tackling the issue of opioid addiction. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/impact-alpha/message
5/1/201825 minutes, 21 seconds
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Should Impact Entrepreneurs Beware the Strategic Corporate Investor?

Corporate venture capital is a thing. And that thing is converging on impact investing. The amount that global corporations put into strategic investments in startup companies last year reached $31 billion across 1800 deals, both all-time records. Today on the podcast David Bank, Imogen Rose-Smith and Brian Walsh discuss Corporate Venture Capital and Impact. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/impact-alpha/message
4/18/201826 minutes, 58 seconds
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Institutional Shift: Pension and Sovereign Funds Come for the Risk Reduction, Stay for the Impact

The billionaires with their family offices command on outsized share of attention from impact fund managers. But, the real dollars, as in trillions, are in the huge pension and sovereign wealth funds around the world. Today on ROI, David Bank speaks with Dave Chen, the head of Equilibrium Capital, about the burgeoning shift towards sustainability and EGS within the world of institutional investors. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/impact-alpha/message
4/3/201829 minutes, 21 seconds
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Which financial innovations will grow from billions to trillions?

A raft of new social-impact and environmental financing vehicle are emerging from labs, incubators and startup funds. By finding inventive ways to monetize social inclusion and environmental regeneration, the new models are "internalizing the positive externalities." Too wonky? Just say "impact alpha." Returns on Investment's resident blue-sky optimist, David Bank, lays bets that the best new ideas will scale up to attract real dollars. Our curmudgeon, Imogen Rose-Smith, is skeptical that many of the impact investment pilots will graduate from the kiddie table and join the adults in the real world of finance. As always, our host Brian Walsh keeps it lively. __________________________________ Support for this Returns on Investment podcast ​comes from Wunder Capital, an easy way to invest in solar energy projects across the US. With Wunder, you help finance renewable energy and earn up to 7.5% a year. Visit WunderCapital.com/roi​. I nvest in solar projects. Do well and do good. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/impact-alpha/message
3/22/201827 minutes, 20 seconds
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#IWD2018: Gender Equity is Not Only the Smart Thing to Do, It's the Right Thing

It has been said that "for impact investing, every day is international women's day." As the #MeToo and #TimesUp movements continue to demonstrate their staying power, is it time that impact and finance at large take a closer look at gender equality within firms as well as in their investments? Brian Walsh, Imogen Rose-Smith and David Bank discuss in the latest ROI. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/impact-alpha/message
3/8/201820 minutes, 6 seconds
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The California Model

The whole panel is together in Oakland to discuss whether or not California is charting the way forward for the inclusive economy of the future. The golden state does seem to be ahead on issues such as immigration, climate change, and shared prosperity - but is there a flip side to the coin? Listen in as Imogen Rose Smith, David Bank, and Brian Walsh discuss The California Model. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/impact-alpha/message
2/21/201827 minutes, 56 seconds
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Demystifying Impact Investing

At a recent hosted at the New York offices of the fintech company Liquidnet, in collaboration with the Tristate Area Africa Funders Network, ImpactAlpha’s own David Bank moderated a panel on “Demystifying Impact Investing” featuring Georgia Levenson Keohane of the Pershing Square Foundation, Liz Luckett of TSEF and Brian Trelstad of Bridges Fund Management.. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/impact-alpha/message
2/6/201833 minutes, 41 seconds
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BlackRock to corporate CEOs: Get a long-term purpose, stat!

Larry Fink, the CEO of the world largest asset manager, pushed "social purpose" higher on the corporate agenda with his annual letter, warning that every company "must show how it makes a positive contribution to society.” Social activists cheered; activist investors more accustomed to pressuring CEOs for stock buybacks and dividends, groaned. As onetime corporate raider Sam Zell put it, “I didn’t know Larry Fink had been made God.” Our roundtable of Imogen Rose-Smith, Brian Walsh and David Bank pull apart not only Fink's arguments, but the critics' and the cheerleaders' as well. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/impact-alpha/message
2/1/201824 minutes, 13 seconds
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Nature Reduces Risk: How Finance Can Conserve Large-Scale Ecosystems

Natural spaces have long provided financial value to humans, though historically this has been through the process of extracting resources. Now, as scientists better understand the key role that ecosystems play in supporting life on earth, some banks and investors are looking to incentivize the preservation of wild spaces and species. Today on ROI, the panel discusses conservation finance. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/impact-alpha/message
1/18/201824 minutes, 3 seconds
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Rise of the Rest: Is there Impact without Reporting and Measurement?

Steve Case tells The New York Times that his $150 million Rise of the Rest Fund is "not an impact fund." Our Returns on Investment roundtable takes on the contretemps that played out on the pages of ImpactAlpha. Good jobs, overlooked geographies, bottom-up innovation – that sounds like impact. Do funds have to measure (and report)? Who decides? Imogen Rose-Smith, David Bank and Brian Walsh take Rise of the Rest apart (and put it back together again). --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/impact-alpha/message
12/20/201721 minutes, 35 seconds
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Impact Investing turns Ten Years Old

In 2007 the term Impact Investing was coined at a Rockefeller Foundation convening in Bellagio. The "framers" put the name to a burgeoning yet broad set of investment strategies being practiced on the margins of traditional finance. On this episode of ROI the panel discusses how the impact community has grown and changed in the past ten years, and where it's headed. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/impact-alpha/message
12/6/201722 minutes, 15 seconds
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Trillion-dollar question: How the World’s Biggest Asset Owners Play the Risks Ahead (podcast)

Imogen Rose-Smith plays cautious realist to David Bank's blue-sky futurist in this heated (but always friendly!) Returns on Investment roundtable. At issue is the role of the world’s biggest asset owners – so-called Universal Owners – in the rotation of capital toward sustainability and inclusion. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/impact-alpha/message
11/21/201723 minutes, 58 seconds
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Tax Hacks: Turning Tax Reform Toward Inclusive Prosperity

As Congress debates tax reform, agents of impact have a chance to 'code' a new tax algorithm. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/impact-alpha/message
11/2/201721 minutes, 49 seconds
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The GIIN's Amit Bouri looks ahead as `impact investing’ turns 10

David Bank chats with Amit Bouri, the founder of the GIIN, about the past ten years of impact investing - and looks forward to the next ten. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/impact-alpha/message
10/12/201719 minutes, 45 seconds
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WTF: An Interview With Tim O'Reilly

On this episode of ROI, David Bank chats with technologist and entrepreneur Tim O'Reilly about his new book WTF: What's the Future, and Why It's Up to Us. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/impact-alpha/message
10/10/201736 minutes, 55 seconds
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A Conversation with Morgan Simon

On this episode of ROI, David Bank chats with Morgan Simon of the Candide Group about her new book "Real Impact: The New Economics of Social Change." --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/impact-alpha/message
10/4/201722 minutes, 56 seconds
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A Role for Impact in Climate Resilience

Climate change is increasing the size, frequency, and cost of natural disasters. In the past several months alone we've seen the devastating affects of hurricanes, droughts, and monsoons. On today’s show, our panel talks impact investing and climate resilience. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/impact-alpha/message
9/21/201724 minutes, 23 seconds
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Blue Haven: 100% for Impact

Liesel Pritzker-Simmons and Ian Simmons join David Bank for this special episode of ROI, brought to you in partnership with The ImPact, to discuss their 100% for impact fund Blue Haven Initiative. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/impact-alpha/message
9/14/201734 minutes
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The Innovation Blindspot: A conversation with Ross Baird.

Ross Baird, President of Village Capital, chats with David Bank about his new book "The Innovation Blindspot," why many VC firms are missing out on great investment opportunities, and more. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/impact-alpha/message
9/11/201732 minutes, 33 seconds
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The ImPact in Korea

On this special episode of Returns on Investment, David speaks with Kyungsun Chung, the Founder and CEO of Root Impact, a nonprofit that focuses on building capacity for the social innovation sector in Korea. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/impact-alpha/message
7/20/201719 minutes, 35 seconds
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Impact in Brasil

On this special episode of ROI, we're featuring an interview with Fernando Scodro, a founding member of The ImPact's Brazil chapter. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/impact-alpha/message
6/30/201719 minutes, 11 seconds
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The Future of Business as a Force for Good

On this special edition of Returns on Investment, we're featuring a panel discussion from The Liquidnet for Good 10 Year Anniversary Forum. The conversation focuses on the future of business as a force for good, and is moderated by Daryl Brewster, the CEO of CECP It features insights from Cammie Erickson, a Senior Manager with Linkedin For Good, Jen Field, the Social Impact Director for GLG, and Andy Fyfe of B Lab. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/impact-alpha/message
6/29/201731 minutes, 48 seconds
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What's the Value of Gender Diversity, Anyway?

Uber is reeling due to a series of damning reports about it's corporate culture of misogyny. One potential solution that makes impact investors ears perk up: diversify the board. But, a new study from Katherine Klein of the Wharton School suggests that "the relationship between board gender diversity and company performance is either non-exist (effectively zero) or weakly positive." How do the findings effect the conversation around gender lens investing? --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/impact-alpha/message
6/28/201723 minutes, 7 seconds
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ROI Special: The Future of Impact Investing

On this special edition of Returns on Investment, we're featuring a panel discussion from The Liquidnet for Good 10 Year Anniversary Forum. The conversation focuses on the future of impact investing, and is moderated. by Georgia Keohane, the Executive Director of the Pershing Square Foundation. It features insights from Liz Luckett, the president of TSEF, Brian Trelsted, a partner at Bridges Fund Management, and Daniel Pianko, the Co-Founder and Managing Director of University Ventures. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/impact-alpha/message
6/23/201733 minutes
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ROI Special Edition: The Future of Effective Philanthropy

On this special edition of Returns on Investment, we're featuring a panel discussion from The Liquidnet for Good 10 Year Anniversary Forum. The conversation focuses on the future of philanthropy and includes Fay Twersky of the Hewlett Foundation, Dennis Whittle of Feedback Labs, and Blue Meridian's Chuck Harris. The moderator is business and philanthropy journalist Mark Gunther. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/impact-alpha/message
6/20/201733 minutes, 32 seconds
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Impact Investing's Annual Report Card

Each year The GIIN releases their Impact Investor survey. Our panel sees some reasons for optimism in the report. But, is impact growing at a fast enough clip to tackle the challenges it's staked for itself? --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/impact-alpha/message
6/8/201725 minutes, 48 seconds
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Unpacking the Sustainable Development Goals

Back in 2015, U.N. leaders adopted a set of 17 targets describing what the world should look like in 2030. The goals are highly ambitious, calling for solutions to climate change and poverty, as well as huge conservation targets and a revamping of the global agricultural system. A lot has happened on the geopolitical stage in the past years, but the SDGs, as they're called (to Imogen's chagrin), are still on the table. Has progress been made? Find out on this episode of Returns on Investment. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/impact-alpha/message
5/22/201720 minutes, 9 seconds
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Get the Hippies Out of Impact?

TPG Capital is moving into the impact world in a big way with a new 2 billion dollar fund. Bono, the famous face of the new fund, turned heads with some controversial comments at The Skoll World Forum. Are the impact investors of the past big hippies who aren't real investors? Is TPG about to change the game? --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/impact-alpha/message
5/11/201716 minutes, 29 seconds
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Big Shift at Ford Foundation

Ford Foundation president, Darren Walker, broke through a barrier of sorts recently with the announcement the foundation would commit $1 billion from its roughly $14 billion endowment to so-called mission-related investments. In the latest Returns on Investment podcast, our roundtable takes on the question of just how significant Ford’s announcement really was. Will it help unlock many more billions for high-impact investments? Will it change how foundations think about deploying their capital? Can it help change the structure of the financial markets themselves? --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/impact-alpha/message
4/28/201726 minutes, 21 seconds
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Risk and Impact

Risk. Is it a board game focused on world domination, a fundamental consideration when allocating capital, or both? We focus on the latter this week, and explore how the impact community approaches issues surrounding risk and opportunity. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/impact-alpha/message
4/10/201721 minutes, 13 seconds
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Can Impact Scale?

The pace of growth in the impact sector is up, but the amount of capital managed by impact investors is a drop in the bucket of the overall capital markets. What will it take to get the level of investment up to the scale of addressing the great challenges of the 21st century? --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/impact-alpha/message
3/22/201723 minutes, 2 seconds
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Is Cleantech Still a Dirty Word for Investors?

New data shows that global investment in renewable energies fell between 2015 and 2016. Is the world dropping the ball on the sustainability transition, or is there more to these numbers? --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/impact-alpha/message
2/21/201715 minutes, 12 seconds
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Affordable Housing and Impact

Since the financial crisis, private equity firms have taken over the housing market. How can impact have an effect in this critical part of the economy? --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/impact-alpha/message
1/18/201718 minutes, 52 seconds
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Climate in the era of Trump

The panel discusses what a Trump administration could mean for climate action and the impact world. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/impact-alpha/message
12/25/201613 minutes, 49 seconds
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President Trump and the Impact Economy

What will the Trump presidency mean for the Impact economy? Our panel discusses. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/impact-alpha/message
12/11/201616 minutes, 43 seconds
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Madam President and the Impact Economy

What will a Clinton Presidency mean for Impact Investing? --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/impact-alpha/message
10/31/201617 minutes, 55 seconds
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COP 22

The ROI Panel get's geared up for COP22 Marrakech, and climate finance. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/impact-alpha/message
10/6/201614 minutes, 50 seconds
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Agent of Impact: Michael Wilkerson

David chats with the head of Tugende, a social enterprise in Uganda that is battling poverty through lease to own agreements. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/impact-alpha/message
9/28/201618 minutes, 25 seconds
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#SOCAP16

The panel gives their take on SOCAP - what it is, where it's come from, and what it can be. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/impact-alpha/message
9/21/201628 minutes, 5 seconds
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Animals!

The Panel discusses how animals - as food, their welfare, biodiversity, and designer pets - fit into the impact discussion. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/impact-alpha/message
9/6/201619 minutes, 5 seconds
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'Brexit' Lays Down Challenge for Impact Investors

What does the nativist isolationism represented by Brexit and Trump mean for the Impact movement? --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/impact-alpha/message
8/10/201618 minutes, 43 seconds
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Millennials!

Will millennial's be the force that makes impact investing the norm? The ROI panel discusses. Plus, is Donald Trump an impact businessman? --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/impact-alpha/message
6/22/201620 minutes, 3 seconds
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The ImPact's Abigail Noble | Impact Alpha's ROI

David chats with Abigail Noble about her new nonprofit, The ImPact. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/impact-alpha/message
6/16/201619 minutes, 51 seconds
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Laura Callanan & The Surprise Social Entrepreneur| Impact Alpha's ROI

Should artists be considered social entrepreneurs? If so, how can impact investors best support them? An interview with Laura Callanan of Upstart Co-Lab --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/impact-alpha/message
6/7/201622 minutes, 24 seconds
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Reflecting on Mission Investors Exchange '16 | Impact Alpha's ROI

The ROI panel discusses this year's Mission Investors Exchange. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/impact-alpha/message
5/25/201622 minutes, 48 seconds
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Emily Stone | Impact Alpha's ROI

David chats with Emily Stone, CEO and Co-Founder of Uncommon Cacao, about her experience as a social entrepreneur. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/impact-alpha/message
5/17/201625 minutes, 15 seconds
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Chicago Model | Impact Alpha's ROI

The ROI panel discusses a new collaborative $100 million fund to finance education and child care, healthy food and affordable housing, and energy conservation and jobs in Chicago. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/impact-alpha/message
5/5/201619 minutes, 40 seconds
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Manuel Lewin | Impact Alpha's Returns on Investment

David Bank speaks with Head of Responsible Investment at Zurich Insurance Company Ltd. about the Paris climate agreement, the challenges facing asset managers looking to invest with an eye towards climate risk, and how to overcome the challenges of responsible investing --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/impact-alpha/message
4/13/201614 minutes, 29 seconds
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Infrastructure! | Impact Alpha's ROI

On today’s show, the ROI Panel is talking infrastructure. Join Brian Walsh, Imogen Rose-Smith, and David Bank for a discussion about the huge economic and social opportunities for impact and institutional investors in infrastructure. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/impact-alpha/message
4/7/201614 minutes, 8 seconds
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Clara Miller - All In For Impact | Impact Alpha's ROI

In 2012, the F.B. Heron Foundation made waves by setting a goal to mission-align 100% of it's $300 million in assets by 2017. Now, in "Building a Foundation for the 21st Century," Clara Miller - president of Heron - has called for the rest of the field to follow suit. This week on ROI we're featuring an interview with Clara. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/impact-alpha/message
3/9/201623 minutes, 21 seconds
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Revolution!? | Impact Alpha's ROI

Dennis Price files a report from Merida, where Sir Ronald Cohen has called for new policies to facilitate the Impact Investing "revolution." The ROI panel discusses. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/impact-alpha/message
3/1/201618 minutes, 27 seconds
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Tackling The Pioneer Gap With Cathy Clark | Impact Alpha's ROI

On this episode of ROI, David Bank chats with Cathy Clark, of Duke University, about bridging the pioneer gap. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/impact-alpha/message
2/16/201611 minutes, 16 seconds
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Sistema Biobolsa | Impact Alpha's ROI

This week, we feature an interview with Alex Eaton, the head of Sistema Biobolsa, a technology company that works to reduce agricultural waste by converting it to fuel and fertilizer. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/impact-alpha/message
2/3/201617 minutes, 34 seconds
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The Global Slowdown And Impact Investing | Impact Alpha's ROI

The ROI panel discusses what the market's historically bad start to the year means for the impact community. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/impact-alpha/message
1/27/201624 minutes, 17 seconds
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Gender Lenses Investing With Suzanne Biegel | Impact Alpha's ROI

Suzanne and David dive deep into the gender lens as an important investment proposition. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/impact-alpha/message
1/19/201628 minutes, 39 seconds
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COP21 | Impact Alpha's ROI

The ROI Panel discusses the news from Paris and what it means for investors. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/impact-alpha/message
12/18/201520 minutes, 45 seconds
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Chan Zuckerberg LLC | Impact Alpha's ROI

Brian Walsh, David Bank, and Imogen Rose-Smith discuss the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, and the backlash to its LLC status. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/impact-alpha/message
12/12/201520 minutes, 27 seconds
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Dave Chen | Impact Alpha's ROI

Dave Chen of Equilibrium Capital chats with David Bank about Equilibrium Capital's investment proposition: that sustainable real assets are a great bet for institutional investors. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/impact-alpha/message
11/16/201524 minutes, 56 seconds
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Erika Karp // Volkswagen | Impact Alpha's ROI

Our panel discusses the Volkswagen scandal and what it means for impact investing. Plus, David discusses ESG investing with Erika Karp of Cornerstone Capital Group. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/impact-alpha/message
11/9/201535 minutes, 47 seconds
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Nancy Pfund + Too Much Money in Impact? | Impact Alpha's ROI

Nancy Pfund discusses DBL's new $400 million impact fund, as well as their ongoing investments in Tesla, Solar City, and Pandora. And, our panel debates whether or not there's too much money in Impact. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/impact-alpha/message
11/2/201537 minutes, 7 seconds