Jessica Pothering, Author at ImpactAlpha

About

Jessica started her career in financial journalism in 2008, the day Lehman Brothers collapsed. She's been following the financial market cycles with an impact lens since 2012. Jessica manages ImpactAlpha's investment news coverage, Dealflow, and the emerging markets beat. She loves getting into the weeds of new and wonky financial structures and funds and meeting the creative minds behind them. Jessica hails from Charleston, SC, and is based in Lisbon, Portugal.

Climate Finance | June 28, 2026

Spotting climate investment opportunities in the growth markets of the Global South

I did not plan for events about extreme heat to be cancelled…due to extreme heat. Arriving for London Climate Action Week on the ...

This Week in Impact | June 26, 2026

Zambia looks to small businesses as pathway to inclusive growth + IPOs set to unlock billions in liquidity for impact LPs

Host Brian Walsh takes up ImpactAlpha’s top stories with editor Jessica Pothering. Up this week: How a new playbook for shared prosperity is ...

Agents of Impact | June 19, 2026

Impact experts ‘words of wisdom’ on landing an impact career (video)

Kimberlee Cornett’s inbox has in recent weeks been flooded with messages from recent university and graduate school graduates hoping to get career advice ...

Personal Finance | June 16, 2026

Climate First raises $67 million to combine impact retail banking and solar lending

One look at the big ugly bar charts illustrating banks’ addiction to financing fossil fuels would make anyone rethink who they bank with. ...

The Brief | June 16, 2026

The Brief: Catalytic capital for local news publishers

Greetings, Agents of Impact! Many thanks to the hundreds of you who tuned into The Call yesterday on building a career in impact ...

Asia | June 15, 2026

Asia’s family businesses drive impact in their operations as well as their investments

With their supply chains, their manufacturing and their operations, family business leaders in Hong Kong, Korea, Singapore and other economic hubs in Asia ...

Signals | June 5, 2026

Opposites attract at Katapult Future Fest 2026

An invitation to meaningful and necessary change is not an invitation to ease, elegance or glamor. Organizers of last week’s Katapult Future Fest ...

Agents of Impact | May 29, 2026

Saskia Bruysten, Carbon Equity: Shifting power to democratize climate investing

Poverty alleviation in Bangladesh has a lot in common, it turns out, with climate investing in Europe. Saskia Bruysten cut her teeth in ...

Dealflow | May 21, 2026

Secha Capital secures $30 million for its operator-investor growth approach to South African businesses

Brendan Mullen, Rushil Vallabh and Nombuso Nkambule have spent a decade getting their hands dirty in the day to day work of running ...

The Brief | May 19, 2026

The Brief: Eric Ries on why good companies go bad

Greetings Agents of Impact! In today’s Brief: Featured: Corporate Governance From lean startups to spiritual holding companies: The education of Eric Ries (podcast). ...