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ImpactAlpha PodcastsA $1,300 Harlem apartment led this fund manager to the $20 billion NOAH opportunity (podcast)Ty Thomas of Primary Housing joins David Bank to discuss NOAH - naturally occurring affordable housing. As an emerging manager, Thomas is looking to preserve and improve the kind of aging, unrestricted market-rate apartments that house teachers, firefighters, and other essential workers.Primary Housing, has been an active and early user of ImpactAlpha Edge, ImpactAlpha’s premium databases and other investment tools for fund managers and other Agents of Impact.
2026-06-0220 min
ImpactAlpha PodcastsTwo impact approaches to addressing the AI data center buildout + Private equity firms eye retirement account trillionsHost Brian Walsh takes up ImpactAlpha’s top stories with editor Amy Cortese. Up this week: Two different approaches that impact investors are taking to address Big Tech’s AI data center buildout; who wins when access to private equity is opened up to American retirees; and, how 2x is spurring a global race to the top in gender-lens investing.To try ImpactAlpha Edge, click here. This week's stories:“Investors must push for transparency on AI’s water risks,” by Ceres’ Kirsten James."Elemental Impact teams with hyperscalers to deploy clean tech solutio...
2026-05-2923 min
ImpactAlpha PodcastsBuilding African ecosystems for impact investing + LPs bridging the "second-wave" capital gapHost Brian Walsh takes up ImpactAlpha’s top stories with Lucy Ngige and Amy Cortese. Up this week: The first edition of ImpactAlpha Africa explores new ways capital is being mobilized for impact on the continent; a spotlight on two African funds investing in human capital and creating high productivity jobs; and, how some LPs are stepping up to help emerging managers cross the chasm to their next fund.
2026-05-2224 min
ImpactAlpha PodcastsFear and frenzy at Milken’s global conference + Strange bedfellows for a climate investmentHost Brian Walsh takes up ImpactAlpha’s top stories with editor David Bank. Up this week: Navigating the fear and frenzy at Milken’s annual gathering of global institutional capital; how the ongoing war in Iran is increasing the demand for renewable energy infrastructure, to the benefit of private equity giants; and, strange bedfellows invest in a company using ocean waves to generate renewable for offshore data centers.To try ImpactAlpha Edge, click here.Story links:"Renewable energy gains steam despite headwinds, as energy demand surges,” by Amy Cortese and Erik Stein."Climate inv...
2026-05-0819 min
ImpactAlpha PodcastsThe latest in Africa's carbon markets + The vibe at Mission Investors ExchangeHost Brian Walsh takes up ImpactAlpha’s top stories with editors Jessican Pothering and David Bank. Up this week: The latest in Africa’s carbon markets, from nature-based solutions to clean cooking; which wealthy athletes are getting into the impact investing game; and debriefing this week’s Mission Investors Exchange conference.To try ImpactAlpha Edge for yourself, click here.Story links:"Outcomes and offtakes spur a 250,000-acre restoration project in South Africa," by Jessica Pothering."Why has it been so hard to crack the code on clean cooking solutions," by...
2026-05-0125 min
ImpactAlpha PodcastsLocal capital for local fund managers and enterprises in Africa + Will the real ownership economy please stand up?Host Brian Walsh takes up ImpactAlpha’s top stories with editor David Bank. Up this week: What’s significant about Uganda’s national pension fund’s effort to stand up a locally focused fund of funds; unraveling the controversy surrounding KKR’s lucrative employee ownership exit from CoolIT; and, unpacking the failure of the impact advisory firm Align Impact.To try ImpactAlpha Edge yourself, click here.For more on these stories:“Let KKR do its thing while we convert thousands more companies to 100% employee ownership,” by Aner Ben-Ami"With shared owners...
2026-04-2421 min
ImpactAlpha PodcastsShareholders fight for the right to proxy vote + Responsible look to assert human agency over the future of AIHost Brian Walsh takes up ImpactAlpha’s top stories with editor David Bank. Up this week:"Dear Shareholders: Your votes and your voice are needed more than ever," by As You Sow's Andrew Behar“Impact investors seek to assert human agency over the future of AI,” by David Bank and Dennis Price“Collaboration Fund sparks a conversation around M&A in impact investing field-building,” by David Bank and Amy CorteseTo try ImpactAlpha Edge for yourself, click here.Correction: Sorenson Impact Institute, not Foundation, is hosting the Collaboration Fund as well as...
2026-04-1725 min
ImpactAlpha PodcastsIntroducing ImpactAlpha Edge + Investors reflect on aquaculture fraudHost Brian Walsh takes up ImpactAlpha’s top stories with editor David Bank. Up this week: How the economic impacts of war in Iran are rippling through energy, fertilizer and food systems; a look at ImpactAlpha Edge; and, a public reckoning with an aquaculture investment gone wrong.Relevant links:“With imported gas in short supply, Indian households green their kitchens,” by Shefali Anand"Persian Gulf blockade stokes demand for local, bio-based fertilizers," by Amy Cortese"The ImpactAlpha Edge: Actionable Intelligence for Agents of Impact," by Dennis Price"Aqua-Spark’s founders on lessons learned and the path...
2026-04-1017 min
ImpactAlpha PodcastsWhy Virta Ventures is looking for equity-light and asset-heavy climate tech investmentsRussell Sprole of Virta Ventures joins David Bank to talk about why Virta expanded its equity-light, software-focused climate-tech investment strategy to include hardware, AI and blended capital stacks. Virta Ventures has been an active and early user of ImpactAlpha Edge, ImpactAlpha’s premium platform of data and tools for fund managers and other Agents of Impact.For more on the firm check out out David's piece on the firm's strategy from last year.
2026-04-0320 min
ImpactAlpha PodcastsStates of the union take the lead + Mast Reforestation's new biomass burial carbon credit strategyHost Brian Walsh takes up ImpactAlpha’s top stories with editor David Bank and producer Isaac Silk. Up this week: As the Trump administration steps back from domestic policy, how states are taking the lead on clean energy, the ownership economy, and AI regulation (09:25); Why smaller funds are leading to bigger returns in Africa (); And, the pivots of Mast Reforestation, as it seeks to sell removal credits on the voluntary carbon markets (14:15).ImpactAlpha's Policy Corner coverage.“Aruwa Capital has the data to make the case for small investment funds,” by Lucy Ngige“From planting trees to burying them, Mast Ref...
2026-02-2721 min
ImpactAlpha PodcastsLatin American impact investors start to map a way forward + Working capital for emerging managersHost Brian Walsh takes up ImpactAlpha’s top stories with editor David Bank. Up this week: Impact investors chart a path for Latin America after the US capture of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro. Why working capital might be the biggest barrier for next-gen fund managers (6:15). And, why some insurers are looking for new risk transfer tools in the face of accelerating climate impacts (13:20).“Now what? Like Venezuela, Latin American fund managers start to map a way forward,” by Erik Stein, Amy Cortese and David Bank. “Working capital is the missing link for next-gen managers,” by Regina Green and Sabrina...
2026-01-0919 min
ImpactAlpha PodcastsAlternatives to Trump's 50 year mortgage + $54 billion in DFI climate financing goes missingHost Brian Walsh takes up ImpactAlpha’s top stories with editor David Bank. Up this week: Instead of 50 year mortgages, actual solutions to make homeownership affordable; The case of the missing $54 billion in climate finance; And, highlights from this week’s call, on plugging the financing gap for growth businesses in Africa.Story links:“From affordable home ownership to ‘fair-share appreciation’ and generational wealth,” by David Bank and Roodgally Senatus.“The case of the missing $54 billion in development banks' climate financing," by Jessica Pothering. All of our call roundups: https://impactalpha.com/calls/
2025-11-1424 min
ImpactAlpha PodcastsTrimtab goes all in on impact first + An affordable 'community of opportunity' in East HarlemHost Brian Walsh takes up ImpactAlpha’s top stories with editor David Bank and reporter Lucy Ngige. Up this week: Trimtab's unapologetic impact-first pitch to wealthy families: outperformance on impact rather than financials; How the new Sendero Verde affordable housing development is bringing to life a vision for a community of opportunity in East Harlem (10:30); And, a vibe check from this year's GIIN Impact Forum (14:55).Story links:“Trimtab’s unapologetic pitch to wealthy families seeking outperformance – on impact,” by David Bank.‘Community of opportunity’: With Sendero Verde, Jonathan Rose’s affordable housing vision comes to life in...
2025-10-1723 min
ImpactAlpha PodcastsWealthy donors are buying tons of carbon just to lock it awayHost Brian Walsh takes up ImpactAlpha’s top stories with ImpactAlpha editors and journalists. Up this week: Amy Cortese discusses the “billionaire buyers club” of wealthy donors buying up tons of carbon just to lock it away. Roodgally Senatus dishes on the big changes underway at Turner MIINT (7:45). And, dealflow editor Jessica Pothering runs down the impact deals and fundraises catching her eye this week (12:38).Story links:“Billionaire Buyers Club: Wealthy donors are buying tons of carbon just to lock it away,” by Amy Cortese“Impact Capital Managers takes the helm of Turner MIINT to advance t...
2025-08-2219 min
ImpactAlpha PodcastsKey to effective investments in youth mental health: Voices of young peopleHopelab’s Margaret Laws and Amy Green join ’s David Bank on the latest episode of the Agents of Impact podcast. See all of ImpactAlpha's Healthy Youth coverage: https://impactalpha.com/browse/inclusion/healthy-youth/
2025-06-2330 min
ImpactAlpha PodcastsDennis Price steps into new role as CEO of ImpactAlphaIn this special episode of This Week in Impact, Brian Walsh discusses the evolution of ImpactAlpha with editor-in-chief David Bank and newly named CEO Dennis Price. The discussion centers on the leadership transition and the new teams and tools being developed at ImpactAlpha to support Agents of Impact. Read the full announcement.
2025-06-0616 min
ImpactAlpha PodcastsProxy battles for universal owners & new models for employee ownershipHost Brian Walsh takes up ImpactAlpha’s top stories with editor David Bank. Up this week: With proxy season here, how shareholders can apply a system stewardship model for the companies they own; why strategies to share the wealth via employee ownership are attracting popular support, and a look at our spring “Re:construction” tour, which offers a playbook for shared prosperity.Chapters(00:00) Proxy season insights(06:00) Employee ownership models(11:50) Re:construction and shared prosperityEvent RSVPs:North Carolina: Friday, April 4 - Building models for shared prosperity, UNC Chapel HillWa...
2025-03-2820 min
ImpactAlpha PodcastsLocal institutional capital for small and medium sized businesses in AfricaHost Brian Walsh chats with ImpactAlpha’s emerging markets reporter Lucy Ngige. Up this week: Why the mood at two impact investing conferences in Nairobi was hopeful, despite the US foreign aid freeze. Plus, a roundup of some of the most interesting recent emerging markets deals. Check out all of the deals here:https://impactalpha.com/browse/beats/dealflow/
2025-03-0724 min
ImpactAlpha PodcastsMission driven funders react to feds funding freeze + responsible AI strategies.Host Brian Walsh takes up ImpactAlpha’s top stories with editor David Bank. Stories featured in this week's episode:
Mission-driven funders scramble to respond to federal funding freeze, by Amy Cortese and David Bank
Call roundup: https://impactalpha.com/calls/
How machine learning and AI can be harnessed for mission-based lending, by Mar Diteos Rendon, Nicole Jansma and Sachi Shenoy
2025-01-3119 min
ImpactAlpha PodcastsGlimmers of hope for impact fundraisingHost Brian Walsh takes up the week’s top stories with ImpactAlpha’s Jessica Pothering. They discuss Jessica's takeaways from her analysis of ImpactAlpha's 2024 set of actively raising impact funds, how catalytic capital is unlocking regenerative agriculture opportunities in Brazil, and why drones are taking off in India for agriculture and economic inclusion.
"Glimmers of hope for impact fund managers shine through the fundraising fog," by Jessica Pothering.
"How catalytic capital helped unlock ecosystem regeneration in Brazil," by Dario Parziale.
"Investors bet on drones to lift agricultural productivity and women’s live...
2025-01-1020 min
ImpactAlpha PodcastsLooking ahead to 2025In the final podcast episode of the year, host Brian Walsh takes up the trends that ImpactAlpha will be following in 2025 with editor David Bank. On our radar: Impact investors lean into economic populism with the ownership economy; climate gets a new narrative for the Trump era; and emerging markets attract local capital for local needs as better data rebuts misperceptions of risk.
Check out all of this year's lookaheads on ImpactAlpha.
2024-12-2018 min
ImpactAlpha PodcastsThe vibe at this year's SOCAP + family offices lean towards climateHost Brian Walsh takes up ImpactAlpha’s top stories with editor David Bank. Up this week: The ImpactAlpha team was at the SOCAP conference in SF, where the focus was on systemic change; how private investors are pouring more money into blended finance transactions; and, why global family offices are slowly warming up to climate investments.
2024-11-0114 min
ImpactAlpha Podcasts1.5 trillion dollars of impact capital, from commercial to catalyticHost 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.
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2024-10-2420 min
ImpactAlpha PodcastsNew strategies for refugee-lens investing, deadlines approach for the GGRF, and a preview of Capitol GainsHost 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/
2024-07-1921 min
ImpactAlpha PodcastsWait, 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/
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This episode features music by Isaac Silk.
2024-07-1213 min
ImpactAlpha PodcastsThe Supreme Court's impact, US political risk, and driving community homeownership without displacementHost 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/
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2024-07-0424 min
ImpactAlpha PodcastsHow 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 strategyHost 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/
2024-06-2718 min
ImpactAlpha PodcastsRoundtable: 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.
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This episode featured music by Isaac Silk
2024-06-2024 min
ImpactAlpha PodcastsESG backlash in Congress and at Tesla, gender lens in vesting in LatAm; and Ava Duverney rewrites the Hollywood funding scriptHost 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
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This episode featured music by Isaac Silk and by Yurii Semchyshyn.
2024-06-1416 min
ImpactAlpha PodcastsImpact funds steer capital towards debt, impact fails in Africa, and Sam Polk of EverytableHost 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.
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This episode featured music by Isaac Silk, Yurii Semchyshyn, Oleksii Holubi
2024-06-0624 min
ImpactAlpha PodcastsClimate on the ballot in Mexico, India and beyond; impact accounting standards; funding climate's missing middleThis 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/
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This episode featured music by Isaac Silk and by Yurii Semchyshyn.
2024-05-3122 min
ImpactAlpha PodcastsNew impact products, investing in 'entrepreneurial households in industrious communities,' and the rise of workersHost 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/
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This episode featured music by Isaac Silk and by Yurii Semchyshyn.
2024-05-2420 min
ImpactAlpha PodcastsChinese tariffs, the Global Fund for Coral Reefs, and valuing the care economyHost 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/
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This episode featured music by Isaac Silk and by Yurii Semchyshyn.
2024-05-1723 min
ImpactAlpha PodcastsDavid's dispatch from MIE and Milken, and a call for sustainable miningThis Week in Impact. Host Brian Walsh takes up ImpactAlpha’s top stories with editor David Bank. Up this week: David dives into the divergent differing vibes at Mission Investors Exchange and the Milken Institute Global Conference. Plus a call for efforts to sustainably harvest the metals needed for the energy transition.
Tonya Allen Q+A: https://impactalpha.com/mcknights-tonya-allen-philanthropy-has-right-and-responsibility-to-counter-dei-attacks/
Laura Callanan: https://impactalpha.com/capital-the-creative-economy-and-a-quarter-century-of-lessons-learned-in-impact-investing/
Sustainable Mining: https://impactalpha.com/esg-will-be-key-to-supplying-green-metals-needed-for-the-energy-transition/
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2024-05-1019 min
ImpactAlpha PodcastsThe opportunity in local climate innovation with VertueLab’s Aina AbiodunVertueLab’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/
2024-05-0642 min
ImpactAlpha PodcastsThe state of blended finance, restoring forests and carbon market credibility, and investing endowments for DEIHost 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/
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2024-05-0323 min
ImpactAlpha PodcastsFamily offices target climate transition, foundations invest in AI for good, and a voluntary carbon credit brouhahaHost Brian Walsh takes up ImpactAlpha’s top stories with editor David Bank. Up this week:
Family offices have the opportunity to invest in the climate transition:
https://impactalpha.com/the-climate-transition-and-investment-opportunities-for-family-offices/
Three leading foundations make for-profit investments in an OpenAI competitor:
https://impactalpha.com/with-stakes-in-anthropic-impact-investors-seek-a-seat-at-the-ai-table/
The brouhaha over whether voluntary carbon credits should count towards a company’s climate targets:
https://impactalpha.com/with-stakes-in-anthropic-impact-investors-seek-a-seat-at-the-ai-table/
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2024-04-2528 min
ImpactAlpha PodcastsFranchising indoor farms to build a billion dollars in Black wealthLoren 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.
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2024-04-2318 min
ImpactAlpha PodcastsGood economic news, the legacy of Participant Media, and a dispatch from the World BankBrian Walsh and ImpactAlpha editor David Bank take up the good news on the good economy, Participant Media’s lasting legacy and the signs of change at the World Bank. Plus: an exclusive early listen to the electrifying single, “I’m Your Heat Pump.”
To learn more about heat pumps and home electrification, visit The Switch is On and Rewiring America websites. Sign up for The Switch is On monthly newsletter and receive an email featuring the “(I’m Your) Heat Pump” music video.
Rob's column:
https://impactalpha.com/good-economy-act...
2024-04-1922 min
ImpactAlpha PodcastsReconnecting communities, impact investing in Puerto Rico, and how business owners are exiting to employeesBrian and David explore the federal funds that are catalyzing capital to reconnect communities from the legacy of racial segregation, the huge impact investing opportunity in Puerto Rico, and the mechanisms that investors and business owners are using to exit to employees.
Links to this week's stories:
Reconnecting communities - https://impactalpha.com/with-bridges-buses-and-bike-lanes-reconnecting-communities-rebuilds-civic-muscles-along-with-neighborhoods/
Impact in PR - https://impactalpha.com/the-impact-investing-opportunity-in-puerto-ricos-economic-comeback/
Employee ownership exits - https://impactalpha.com/with-elbos-and-eots-more-business-owners-are-exiting-to-employee-ownership/
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2024-04-1224 min
ImpactAlpha PodcastsAlison Taylor: The broken chain from transparency to accountability to corporate actionNYU 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
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2024-04-0926 min
ImpactAlpha PodcastsEPA (finally) announces who will distribute $20 billion fund, lessons from blended finance, and universal owners vote their proxyBrian and David continue to unpack the EPA’s blockbuster $20 billion in government grants to mobilize commercial investment in climate solutions, learn lessons from dozens of blended finance transactions, and discuss how shareholders are voting to have companies mitigate economy-wide risks.
Links to this week's stories:
https://impactalpha.com/investors-ready-products-to-amplify-us-green-bank-funding/
https://impactalpha.com/blending-billions-lessons-from-more-than-three-dozen-big-blended-finance-transactions/
https://impactalpha.com/with-systems-first-proposals-shareholders-seek-to-mitigate-economy-wide-risks/
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2024-04-0420 min
ImpactAlpha PodcastsNational green bank funding, basket bonds, and Brazil's burgeoning impact ecosystemBrian Walsh and David Bank discuss the players likely to receive massive funding from the EPA to create a national green bank, how people are investing in Brazil’s impact economy, and how a $75 million ‘basket bond’ is catalyzing climate lending to small businesses in emerging markets.
Read more:
Green bank: https://impactalpha.com/epas-new-partners-plot-a-27-billion-path-to-a-us-green-bank/
Basket bonds: https://impactalpha.com/how-a-75-million-basket-bond-is-catalyzing-climate-lending-to-small-businesses-in-emerging-markets/
Brazilian impact ecosystem: https://impactalpha.com/the-path-to-growth-in-brazil-runs-through-the-impact-economy-videos
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2024-03-2820 min
ImpactAlpha PodcastsHow Texas’s anti ESG campaign is costing it money, cookstoves and carbon markets, and Vanguard gets punkedDavid Bank joins Brian Walsh to discuss some of the top stories from ImpactAlpha this week.
Stories mentioned on the podcast:
Texas boots Blackrock:
https://impactalpha.com/texas-boots-blackrock-saddling-texans-with-the-costs-of-its-campaign-against-esg/
Clean cooking: https://impactalpha.com/leveraging-the-carbon-markets-for-clean-cooking-climate-justice-and-social-impact/
Vanguard gets punked: https://impactalpha.com/elaborate-spoof-takes-aim-at-vanguards-retreat-from-climate-commitments/
Agents of Impact Call 60: https://impactalpha.com/calls/
2024-03-2127 min
ImpactAlpha PodcastsFinding hidden impact and overlooked risks in municipal bondsFeaturing 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/
2023-12-1509 min
ImpactAlpha PodcastsRepurposing churches with Graham Singh, and a big ImpactAlpha announcementDavid 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
2023-10-2014 min
ImpactAlpha PodcastsRevamped SOCAP seeks radical ideas and scaled solutionsDavid 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
2023-09-0815 min
ImpactAlpha PodcastsInsuring farmers against crop failures and climate changeDavid 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/
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2023-07-2119 min
ImpactAlpha PodcastsThe long and winding road to responsible private equity with Tensie WhelanHost Brian Walsh is joined by NYU’s Tensie Whelan 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/
2023-05-1219 min
ImpactAlpha PodcastsFinding alpha in racial justice and the challenges women face raising a first fund with Himalaya RaoThe 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/
2023-05-0513 min
ImpactAlpha PodcastsGoing 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/
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2023-04-1418 minImpactAlpha PodcastsIn spite of itself, Texas takes on mantle of climate leaderFrom 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
2023-03-3109 minImpactAlpha Podcasts[Briefing] University of California’s rescue of Blackstone’s REITThe 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 (podcast@impactalpha.com) with your feedback, and check out the replay of The Call: impactalpha.com/calls
2023-02-2423 min
ImpactAlpha Podcasts[Briefing] Finding the opportunities in (and the problems with) muni bondsImpactAlpha’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.
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2023-02-0313 minImpactAlpha Podcasts[Briefing] Stephan Nicoleau shares an update from COP27Amy 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
2022-11-1828 minImpactAlpha Podcasts[Briefing] The Greening of the 401(k) with Zach SteinImpactAlpha’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/
2022-10-0718 minImpactAlpha Podcasts[Briefing] Mapping Climate Capital and September's LIISTImpactAlpha’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/
2022-09-0911 minImpactAlpha Podcasts[Briefing] Introducing The LIIST with Luni Libes and Zuleyma BebellRealize 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/
2022-08-0515 minImpactAlpha PodcastsBriefing: ImpactAlpha Open LaunchesImpactAlpha’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.”
2022-07-2907 min
ImpactAlpha PodcastsBriefing: Emerging fund managers gather in Dar es SalaamImpactAlpha’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.
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2022-06-1611 minImpactAlpha PodcastsBriefing: A Civilian Climate Corps in the Bronx, and 'Community Rounds' replaces CrowdfundingRoodgally 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/
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2022-04-0811 min
ImpactAlpha PodcastsBriefing: Women Driving Alpha, "Live" from Cape TownHost 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.
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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/
2022-03-1111 minImpactAlpha PodcastsBriefing: Impact investing’s policy agenda, and the funky sounds and social impact of ElectroSpitHost 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/
2022-02-1812 minImpactAlpha PodcastsBriefing: The rising price of carbon and Kim Folsom of Founders FirstHost 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/
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2022-02-0416 minImpactAlpha PodcastsBriefing: The Roundtable looks ahead to 2022Host 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
2022-01-1426 minImpactAlpha PodcastsBriefing: Universal Ownership and Active StewardshipHost 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.
2021-09-1009 minImpactAlpha PodcastsBriefing: ‘Beta stewardship’ and hurricane resilienceHost 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.
2021-09-0311 minImpactAlpha PodcastsBriefing: Some Reconstruction history and looking forward to Black Philanthropy MonthOn 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.
2021-07-3009 minImpactAlpha PodcastsBriefing: The SEC considers asset manager diversity disclosureMonique 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.
2021-07-1613 min
ImpactAlpha PodcastsAgents of Impact: Omidyar Network’s Chris Jurgens on the ideas, rules and power for a resilient 21st centuryWith 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.
2021-06-0830 min
The ReconstructionAnne Price on centering Blackness in the economic liberation of all Americans.With her team at Insight Center for Community Economic Development, Anne Price last summer called for “a serious and sustained effort to center Blackness and the Black experience as a necessary strategy to ensure economic liberation for all Americans.” ‘Centering Blackness’ in the U.S. became one of the founding principles of The Reconstruction, ImpactAlpha’s podcast series that aims to connect the people and ideas moving capital towards justice. “I think that centering Blackness creates space for all people to be seen, and that can be restorative,” Price tells host Monique Aiken. “If we want true liberation, we have to solve for...
2021-06-0131 minImpactAlpha PodcastsBriefing: April 23rdOn 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.
2021-04-2311 minImpactAlpha PodcastsBriefing: March 12thMonique 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...
2021-03-1214 minThe ReconstructionRodney Foxworth on reparative investing for shared power in a common futureFoxworth, CEO of Oakland.-based Common Future, gets personal in conversation with host Monique Aiken in the latest episode in The Reconstruction, the new podcast series from ImpactAlpha. In their conversation, Foxworth and Aiken range from the need to confront power, to possibilities for reparative investing to empathy in a time of division.--- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/impact-alpha-tr/message
2021-03-0835 minImpactAlpha PodcastsBriefing: February 26thOn 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.
2021-02-2609 minThe ReconstructionWelcome to The ReconstructionIntroducing: a new interview series from ImpactAlpha, hosted by Monique Aiken, focused on moving capital towards justice. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/impact-alpha-tr/message
2021-01-2803 minImpactAlpha PodcastsBriefing: December 18thDavid joins Brian to round up the ImpactAlpha week of roundups, plus we hear a few of Dave Chen's predictions for 2021.
2020-12-1809 minImpactAlpha PodcastsBriefing: March 27thYour 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.
2020-03-2710 min
ImpactAlpha PodcastsBriefing: March 13thThe 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.
2020-03-1310 min
ImpactAlpha Podcasts‘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.
2020-01-3030 min
ImpactAlpha PodcastsBlue 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...
2020-01-2140 min
ImpactAlpha PodcastsThe Decapitalization of the Fossil Fuel IndustryThe Decapitalization of the Fossil Fuel Industry by ImpactAlpha
2019-12-2023 min
ImpactAlpha PodcastsSir 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.
2019-11-1920 min
ImpactAlpha PodcastsFossil fuel investments undercut major firms’ claims as impact investorsNow 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.
2019-11-0520 min
ImpactAlpha PodcastsUpdated Corporate Purpose Signals Broader Definitions of Fiduciary Duty and MaterialityUpdated Corporate Purpose Signals Broader Definitions of Fiduciary Duty and Materiality by ImpactAlpha
2019-08-2927 min
ImpactAlpha PodcastsOvercoming Systemic Bias in Investing Means Challenging Power and Pattern MatchingOvercoming Systemic Bias in Investing Means Challenging Power and Pattern Matching by ImpactAlpha
2019-08-2728 min
ImpactAlpha PodcastsGoldman Sachs’ Hugh Lawson on How Climate Change Is Changing Asset ManagementA 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 Retu...
2019-06-0539 min
ImpactAlpha PodcastsBeyond Tradeoffs: Big Investors Press Asset Managers to Integrate ‘ESG’ and Impact Across PortfoliosIn 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.”
2019-05-0930 min
ImpactAlpha PodcastsBeyond Tradeoffs: Omidyar Network's Investments Across the Continuum of ReturnsIn 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.
2019-05-0642 min
ImpactAlpha PodcastsMaking 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.
2019-04-1525 min
ImpactAlpha PodcastsNo 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?
2019-02-1319 min
ImpactAlpha PodcastsRisky Business: Corporations Need Market Signals to Reduce Climate RisksWill 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.
2019-01-3018 min
ImpactAlpha PodcastsInstitutional Shift: Climate Risk Hits the Market and Other Impact Investing Trends to Watch in 2019Join 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."
2019-01-0945 min
ImpactAlpha PodcastsDoing 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.
2018-11-0726 min
ImpactAlpha PodcastsShining a Spotlight, er, Podcast on the Business of ImpactAlpha ItselfIn 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?
2018-10-2916 min
ImpactAlpha PodcastsInstitutional Shift: Impact Investing on the Hot Seat at Global Pension FundsJoin 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.
2018-10-1122 min
ImpactAlpha PodcastsGetting to YesWhat 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.”
2018-08-2823 min
ImpactAlpha PodcastsCan 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 Hist...
2018-07-0223 min
ImpactAlpha PodcastsDemystifying Impact InvestingAt 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..
2018-02-0633 min
ImpactAlpha PodcastsRise 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).
2017-12-2021 min