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SRI360 | Sustainable & Responsible Investing, Impact Investing, ESG, Socially Responsible InvestingImpact Insights from Billion+ AUM Funds: 3 Models with Global Strategies That Scale (#097)What does it look like when billion-dollar funds put impact at the core of their investment strategy?In this 3-in-1 compilation episode, we revisit conversations with investors managing tens of billions across public fixed income, public equities, private equity, and impact-focused real estate. Each one makes the case that environmental and social outcomes aren’t a tradeoff – but a source of lasting value and market-beating returns.Meet the leaders turning billions into measurable impact:Michele Giddens, Co-Founder and CEO of Bridges Fund ManagementBridges was launched in 2002 with £40 million – includi...
2025-07-292h 02SRI360 | Sustainable & Responsible Investing, Impact Investing, ESG, Socially Responsible InvestingIn Case You Missed It: Must-Hear Impact Highlights From May 2025 (#093)In May, I spoke with four leaders who are reshaping what finance can do – and who it can serve.In this compilation episode, I’ve pulled together the most powerful ideas, turning points, and takeaways from those conversations. If something resonates, you can dive deeper – the links to each full episode are below.Here's the list of featured guests:Nasir Qadree, Founder and Managing Partner of Zeal Capital PartnersNasir launched Zeal in early 2020 – right as the pandemic began. For many, it seemed like the worst possible timing. For him, it...
2025-07-012h 03SRI360 | Sustainable & Responsible Investing, Impact Investing, ESG, Socially Responsible InvestingImpact Update: What’s Working, What’s Not, and What’s Next with Eric Rice (#088)My guest today is Eric Rice – back for his second appearance on the podcast.When we first spoke, he was running one of the only public equity funds in the impact space available to retail investors. Now, that fund has been shut down, the capital returned, and Eric has moved to private equity – specifically, to SEAF, an investor in emerging market SMEs.This time, we talked about what happened, why it happened, and what it says about the current state of impact.Eric’s core thesis hasn’t changed. The theory of change he devel...
2025-05-2857 minSRI360 | Sustainable & Responsible Investing, Impact Investing, ESG, Socially Responsible InvestingFrom £10M to £2B: Michele Giddens “Bridges” Impact Purpose with Double-Digit Returns (#085)My guest today is Michele Giddens, Co-Founder and CEO of Bridges Fund Management — one of the early architects of impact investing, before the term was even coined.Bridges now has over £2 billion in AUM invested in private equity and property, but back in 2002, it began with little more than a blank sheet of paper and a conviction that capital could — and should — be used to address some of society’s biggest challenges.Michele and her co-founders, Sir Ronald Cohen and Philip Newborough, believed social and environmental impact didn’t have to come at the expense of returns...
2025-05-071h 28
La StoryKeir Starmer, l’homme qui promet sueur et labeur au Royaume-UniArrivé au pouvoir le 5 juillet, le gouvernement travailliste de Keir Starmer prépare les Britanniques à l’annonce le 30 octobre d’un budget âpre. Pour « La Story », le podcast d’actualité des « Echos », Pierrick Fay et son invité Nicolas Madelaine analysent la situation politique et économique outre-Manche.Retrouver l’essentiel de l’actualité économique grâce à notre offre d’abonnement Access : abonnement.lesechos.fr/lastoryLa Story est un podcast des « Echos » présenté par Pierrick Fay. Cet épisode a été enregistré en septembre 2024. Rédaction en chef : Clémence Lemaistre. Invité : Nicolas Madelaine (correspondant des « Echos » à Londres). Réalisatio...
2024-09-1019 min
The Return: Property & Investment PodcastMichele Giddens OBE: Sustainable Investing PioneerSend us a textSustainable Investing with Co-Founder & Co-CEO of pioneer Bridges Fund Management, Michele Giddens OBE and Anna Clare Harper.In Anna's words:If you work in sustainable investing, you probably already know the ‘Bridges Spectrum of Capital’. I discovered and loved it when I was researching my book on Sustainable Residential Investing, so I was especially excited to chat with Michele Giddens OBE, Co-CEO of Bridges Fund Management, which she Co-Founded alongside Philip Newborough and Sir Ronald Cohen - who gets described as "the father of British venture capital"....
2024-05-0930 min
Being InvestedEp.10: Michele Giddens: A master of imagining better - building the impact market and how shyness fuels determinationWelcome back to Being Invested, where we explore the personal stories of the people who make the markets.For our first podcast of 2024, I am joined by a true pioneer – Michele Giddens, one of the ‘founding parents’ of impact investment globally and Co-Founder and Co-CEO of Bridges Fund Management. Our conversation goes deep, exploring how shyness as a child cultivated a purposeful orientation to contribute and perform. Born in Leicester, with early years in Canada and California, Michele has always embraced new frontiers, and woven purpose into her hugely successful investing and business-building career. Undeterred by extreme condit...
2024-02-041h 11
Private Equity TalksNavigating the just transitionMichele Giddens, co-CEO at Bridges Fund Management and Sharon Johnson, COO of AgilityEco speak with Real Deals about the just transition and how it is being used in practice.
2022-05-2430 min
Smarter ImpactMichele Giddens - Bridges Fund Management - Investing in the future: the future of investingJoin for me an indepth discussion with Michele Giddens, co-founder of https://www.bridgesfundmanagement.comIf you enjoyed this content, please give it a like, leave a comment, subscribe for more and share the video - it really means a lot to see your support coming in :)Smarter Impact is hosted by http://linkedin.com/in/philipbateman and produced by http://bravocharlie.globalBravo Charlie specialise in targeted video communication for impact investors and their portfolios, using marketing, business development, investing and production skills to engage stakeholders and amplify returns.At...
2020-06-2213 min
Good FutureMichele Giddens: driving scale and speed for change and impactToday’s episode was recorded at the Impact Investment Summit in Sydney at the end of 2019, where I spoke with Michele Giddens. She’s co-founder of Bridges Capital, she’s based in the UK, and during our conversation she summed up really well how poignant and emotional it was to be here in Sydney, having these conversations about climate change and about investing in sustainability, with fires all around us.
It really did spur a sense of urgency for shifting the way we treat this big, brown country that we call home.
Michele co-founded Bridges Fund Management in 2002, alongside Philip Newbor...
2020-01-3014 min
Daytime ConfidentialDaytime Legend Michele Val Jean on Primetime "Ambitions"On the latest Daytime Confidential podcast Luke Kerr is joined by Ambitions creator and head writer Jamey Giddens and daytime writing legend Michele Val Jean, who is a Consulting Producer at Ambitions. During the visit the two share how it feels to already be at Ambitions' ninth episode "Giving Up." Michele talks about juggling writing for The Bold and the Beautiful and Ambitions at the same time. As one of the few African American writers in daytime, Val Jean shares what it was like to be in an all-black writers room at Ambitions. For years Jamey rev...
2019-08-1233 min
The Mergermarket Private Equity Podcast10: Karmic balance sheetsThe team explores developments in the impact investment space, with brand-name GPs entering the fray and convergence in reporting standards. Oscar Geen hosts Greg Gille and Gareth Morgan, while Kenny Wastell speaks to special guest Michele Giddens, co-founder and partner at Bridges Fund Management.
Intro (00:00)
Big hitters enter; demographic and societal drivers (00:53)
Interview with Bridges Fund Management's Michele Giddens (06:39)
External rate of return, reporting standards convergence (17:11)
Theme music: ©2012 Kick Up The Fire
2019-05-0725 min
Pop ConfidentialPC #75: Game of HologramsOn today's Pop Confidential podcast Luke Kerr, Jamey Giddens, Jillian Bowe and Jenna Dorsi dish the latest in TV and pop culture headlines and news, including:
Did Naya Rivera get fired from Glee because of a scuffle with Lea Michele? Isaiah Washington returns to Grey's Anatomy as Doctor Burke for Cristina Yang's exit. Game of Thrones finds itself in two storyline scandals. The PC gang share their reaction to WGN's Salem. Luke is loving Fargo on FX.
Jillian dishes about The Real Housewives of Atlanta. Has Michael Ealy becoming a show killer now that Fox...
2014-05-021h 13
Daytime ConfidentialDC #713: EXCLUSIVE - Michele Val Jean Reflects on #GH50 and Career in SoapsOn today's Daytime Confidential podcast Luke Kerr, Jamey Giddens and Jillian Bowe interview Michele Val Jean about her years at General Hospital, it's upcoming 50th Anniversary and what it's like to be working at The Bold and the Beautiful.
2013-03-2228 min
The Bottom LineRuthlessnessThe view from the top of business. Presented by Evan Davis, The Bottom Line cuts through confusion, statistics and spin to present a clearer view of the business world, through discussion with people running leading and emerging companies. The programme is broadcast first on BBC Radio 4 and later on BBC World Service Radio, BBC World News TV and BBC News Channel TV.It's tough at the top, but when is it right to be tough at the top? Evan's executive panel debate the pros and cons of ruthlessness as a management style. They also talk about investing...
2012-03-2927 min