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Water, long overlooked, is increasingly investable (video)
For something that underpins virtually every aspect of our lives, water has for too long been “out of sight, out of mind” when …
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Water, long overlooked, is increasingly investable (video)
For something that underpins virtually every aspect of our lives, water has for too long been “out of sight, out of mind” when …
How green banks are blending finance for community infrastructure and greenhouse gas reduction (video)
In New Orleans, the city’s housing finance agency has become a “green bank” to underwrite community solar, water treatment projects, and resilience hubs. …
The arbitrage opportunity in high-impact municipal bonds (video)
ImpactAlpha, Dec. 15 – The $4 trillion muni market is so big that small movements in the pricing of bonds can mean shifts of …
Connecting supply and demand for racial equity strategies in muni markets (video)
ImpactAlpha, Jun. 22 – Even as some politicians ramp up anti-ESG rhetoric, asset owners and allocators are signaling an appetite for investment strategies …
Engaging racial-equity risks and opportunities in municipal finance (video)
ImpactAlpha, Feb. 9 – The fatal beating by police of Tyre Nichols in Memphis last month exposed risks to the city’s finances that have …
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Adapting ‘pooled loan funds’ to scale financing for greenhouse gas reduction projects
Editor’s Note: Community Finance Brief is a newsletter from Matt Posner of Court Street Group, occasionally syndicated on ImpactAlpha. In the fight against …
Why deep reflection is a prerequisite when investing for justice
Over the course of this six-part series on how and why Kataly is designing our investment strategy to divest from Wall Street, we …
Designing Kataly Foundation’s investment strategy for non-extraction and racial justice
In our previous post in this series, I reflected on the challenges we’ve faced in the process of designing an investment strategy that …
Billions to trillions: How municipal bonds can multiply the reach of the US ‘green bank’
To achieve stated climate goals, the U.S. government is embarking on what should be the largest coordination of private and public capital aimed …
To scale the IRA’s “green bank,” community lenders should engage muni finance markets
When the University of Virginia issued the first Build America Bond ($250 million) in April of 2009, it was just about three months …
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