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The Week in impact investing: People’s party

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🎧 This Week in Impact. Host Brian Walsh takes up ImpactAlpha’s top stories with editor Amy Cortese. Up this week: At SuperReturn in Berlin, asset-light is out and HALO is in, as private equity titans focus on AI, energy and defense; a look at public and private approaches to sharing the AI wealth; and, Realize Capital Partners’ fund-of-funds' $277 million for Canada’s impact fund managers.

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A Juneteenth challenge: Political freedom requires economic freedom, too. Juneteenth – which marks the day in 1865 when Union troops arrived in Galveston, Texas, to inform enslaved people that they had been freed… two years prior – is often described as a celebration of freedom. And it is. “But freedom was not the end of the journey. The harder challenge was transforming legal freedom into economic freedom,” writes Candide Group’s George Ashton in a guest post. In 1863, just before emancipation, Black Americans held approximately 0.5% of national wealth. More than 160 years later, that number has crept up to just 1.5%. The gap between Black and white household wealth has only widened. “As a country,” says Ashton, “we have never truly faced the real legacy of that history head on and applied ourselves completely to correcting it.” 

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Impact experts ‘words of wisdom’ on landing an impact career. Kimberlee Cornett’s inbox has in recent weeks been flooded with messages from recent university and graduate school graduates hoping to get career advice from the director of impact investments for the $14 billion Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. On this week’s Agents of Impact Call, Cornett and ImpactAlpha’s David Bank assembled impact practitioners working in asset management, philanthropy and the public sector to offer practical tips and personal insights on building a career in impact investing. For young professionals whose careers are both shaped by and vulnerable to AI, “I still believe that knowing how to do the work by hand is going to be really important,” noted Cornett. “Understanding the life cycle of a deal, anticipating all the things that can go wrong – yes, you can automate some of the scenario planning, but guiding the system is going to require actually knowing how to do the work.” Other highlights:

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